Smith, whose most influential albums include “Horses,” “Radio Ethiopia,” “Easter,” “Wave” and “Dream of Life," has been visiting Connecticut regularly throughout her long career. This includes a performance at New Haven’s Educational Center for the Arts in the mid-1970s, regular gigs at Toad’s Place for decades (most recently in 2007) and numerous appearances on behalf of Ralph Nader, including a Democracy Rising rally at New Haven Coliseum in 2002, an anti-war event at Wesleyan University in 2005 and the opening of Nader’s American Museum of Tort Law in Winsted in 2015. In 2011, the Wadsworth Atheneum presented “Patti Smith: Camera Solo," billed as "the first museum exhibition of Patti’s Smith’s photography in the United States.”