Ron Delsener Presents

In a career spanning sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener was the name behind virtually every major contemporary music concert in New York City for generations. From promoting 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 bury the hatchet and play the biggest concert of all time in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.

Through a portrait of a mercurial and relentless showman, Ron Delsener 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 nightclubs to international tours, arenas, stadiums, and, eventually, into a global empire. A transformation that Delsener is in many ways responsible for. Working in a business he helped to create Ron Delsener now in the later stages of his life, still has his hand in the game. Sure, he could stop - he maybe even should but Ron doesn’t know how.

“Every time you went to New York, you knew you were going to see Ron Delsener, he’s going to take care of you at the gig, and you were going to have a good time...He’s the exact guy who he seems to be now.” - Bruce Springsteen

“Ronnie was a risk taker; he was willing to take the gamble. New York City had all different kinds of acts, but they were all promoted by Delsener, ‘Ron Delsener Presents’ Delsener was the guy that took the chance, that’s something you need someone to do for you.” - Billy Joel