David Bowie's High Line Tickets on Sale Friday, March 30

I've been a Bowie fan for years (who hasn't?) but I have to wonder what he was thinking when he added Laurie Anderson to the line-up of this otherwise fantastic sounding festival. It's beyond me, but like Dave J said of TS Eliot, "I suppose every author (or whatever Anderson is) has a fan or two."

If anyone out there wants to buy me Ricky Gervais tickets...

From the promoters:

The H&M High Line Festival is a new multi-discipline arts festival that will be curated each year by a different artist. The inaugural edition, curated by David Bowie, will run May 9 to 19, 2007.

The ten-day mash-up of music, film, comedy, visual art and performance will highlight all of David's favorite artists. The best of the best.

The inaugural 10-day festival will take place in venues near the High Line, the elevated rail structure soon to open as a public open space, running through the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/HellÕs Kitchen. A portion of each ticket sale will go to benefit Friends of the High Line, the 501(c)3 organization currently working with the City of New York to transform the 1930Õs rail structure into a park, set to open in 2008.

Please Note: none of the events of the High Line Festival will take place on the High Line itself.

via BuzzFeed