Ron Delsener Presents

Special post-screening Q&A with legendary concert promoter Ron Delsner and filmmaker Jake Sumner! For generations of New Yorkers, perhaps no three words are as interconnected with iconic live music as 'Ron Delsener Presents' – the words that preceded the name of every major act playing New York in advertisements, on the radio and everywhere else. Ron Delsner Presents is equal parts all-access pass to New York's greatest gigs, as told by concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener, and a portrait of a music business pioneer who can't stop hustling. In a career spanning almost sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener has been behind virtually every major contemporary music concert in New York City. From the Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to come back together to play the biggest concert ever in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all. Ron Delsner presents takes us behind-the-curtain through the last half century of the live music business, chronicling the tactics that drove live performance from disorganized, low-fi events to international tours, arenas, and, eventually, into a global empire. Now, at 86 years old, Ron’s still in the game, working in the now-multi-billion industry he helped to create. Sure, he could stop - he maybe even should. But Ron doesn’t know how. Screening as part of Playhouse Rocks, an ongoing series of concert documentaries at the Playhouse throughout the month of August.DocumentaryPT1H42M2025-08-20
Ron Delsener
Billy Joel
Paul Simon
Jake Sumner
James A. Smith
Jake Sumner
Margaret Munzer Loeb
Ron Delsener Presents"Ron Delsener Presents"

Showtimes

August 20, 7:15 pm

Southampton Playhouse