Bob Dylan in Montreal in 1962
Date: June 30, 1962
Credit: The Montreal Star newspaper
Bob Dylan is a songwriter and composer of great importance to American popular culture. Many people recall the time he spent playing in modest Montreal coffee houses and folk clubs in 1962. Shortly afterwards, he became famous internationally. This was especially the case in the mid 1960s when he started playing the electric guitar with a full band.
If at the end of June and in early July 1962, the passage of Bob Dylan in small folk clubs in Montreal – the Potpourri on Stanley St. and the Finjan on Victoria Ave – did not make much noise, at Place des Arts in February 1966, it was a whole other story.
― Montréal : Chaud/show (2008), p. 194 (translated from original text in French)
Transcription:
The POTPOURRI
“Canada’s Only Coffee House-Book Shop”
Tonight and Tomorrow at 9 P.M.
Folk singer
BOB DYLAN
Columbia Recording Artist
Special Attraction
Tues., July 3 and Wed., July 4
LEAH ANANDA
World’s Foremost Conga Drummer
Thurs., July 5th to Sun., July 8th
Fred Neil and Eric Hord
1430 Stanley
842-3605
Air conditioned