Bob Dylan News

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: CONVICTED makes its world premiere at the 2017 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival tonight!

Comedians Edward Aczel, Eshaan Akbar, Dan Antopolski, Mitch Benn, Markus Birdman, Jason Byrne, Keith Farnan, Stuart Goldsmith, Darren Hariott, Pete Johansson, Tony Law, Andrew Maxwell, Simon Munnery, Andrew O'Neill and Mark Watson will be performing MANWATCHING at Paines Plough's ROUNDABOUT @ SUMMERHALL at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, two of the world's most captivating and compelling musicians, will bring an acoustic evening of blended rock and country to The VETS in Providence Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 7:30pm. Tickets ($69.50 - $39.50) are on sale Monday, August 7 at 10am online at TheVetsRI.com, by calling (401) 421.ARTS (2787), or in person at The VETS/PPAC box office located at 220 Weybosset St in Providence. Summer box office hours are Mon-Thurs 10am-3pm. The VETS is located at One Avenue of the Arts in Providence. The VETS on-site box office is only open on show days. For a complete listing of The VETS events visit TheVetsRI.com.

Watch Sheila Atim perform Bob Dylan's 'Tight Connection to My Heart' in Girl From the North Country

The following acts are performing at City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, throughout the month of August. Featured performances include three shows with Rachelle Ferrell on August 4-5, Roomful of Blues' on their 50th anniversary tour on August 17, Grammy award-winner Rickie Lee Jones on August 20, Welsh alt-rock group The Alarm on August 28 and more. Scroll down for details!

City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces genre bending hip-hop duo Black Violin, Grammy Award-winning classical guitar virtuoso Earl Klugh, multi-platinum American rock band The Verve Pipe and more.

The King Center presents an AEG Presents production, AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT AND JOHN HIATT, on Sunday, October 22, 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 4 at Noon and begin at $42.50 (inclusive of fees).

Three roots music acts will take the stage when Park City Institute presents Parsonsfield, joined by Laney Jones and the Spirits, and Jeffrey Foucault, on August 12, at 7:00 PM. 

Acclaimed vocalist and one of the most revered popular singers of her generation Lizz Wright comes to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Thursday, October 12 at 8 p.m.

Max Weinberg's Jukebox not only takes audience requests, but encourages them.

The following acts are performing at City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, throughout the month of August. Featured performances include three shows with Rachelle Ferrell on August 4-5, Roomful of Blues' on their 50th anniversary tour on August 17, Grammy award-winner Rickie Lee Jones on August 20, Welsh alt-rock group The Alarm on August 28 and more. Scroll down for details!

Americana singer-songwriter Shelly Waters is set to release her new, self-titled album on July 28, 2017. Evidence of Waters' jambalaya-like recipe of sonic spices – and then some - are found within each of the dozen tasty tracks on Shelly Waters, which was recorded in Nashville with renowned producer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaler.

The Old Vic presents the World Premiere of Girl From the North Country, an electrifying new work written and directed by Conor McPherson along with classic songs from Bob Dylan. Girl from the North Country plays at the Old Vic until 7 October.

Defiantly rejecting the standard jukebox model, Conor McPherson's much-anticipated new work mining the back catalogue of Bob Dylan is labelled 'a play with songs' - or perhaps that should be a play and songs, with two distinct forms of storytelling weaving around one another, reflecting, deepening, revealing, in exquisitely soulful harmony.

City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces Folk singer, songwriter and actor Loudon Wainwright III, critically acclaimed Hawaiian musicians Makana & John Cruz, Louisiana's Grammy nominated Southern Roots group, The Revelers and the return of London based R&B trio Loose ends.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed singer/songwriter and rising popstar Zak Abel to a worldwide deal. The agreement comes ahead of the release this autumn of Only When We're Naked, the debut Atlantic Records album by the British talent who initially rose to fame as the guest vocalist on Gorgon City's UK Top 20 hit “Unmissable”.

The Old Vic will present the World Premiere of Girl From the North Country, an electrifying new work written and directed by Conor McPherson along with classic songs from Bob Dylan.

Ruth Eckerd Hall presents Neil Berg's 50 Years of Rock & Roll on Saturday, October 14 at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 29 at noon.

New York City-based Americana singer-songwriter Brian Dunne is hitting the road in celebration of his new album, Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements, which was just released in May.

In a consistently colorful musical career that spans nearly four decades, Willie Nilehas established a reputation as a world-class rock 'n' roller, and as a singular songwriter with deep roots in rock's rich history. So it's not surprising that he'd choose to tip his hat to one of his most enduring musical inspirations with his eleventh studio album, Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan, a heartfelt, personally charged set of Dylan covers that honors its subject while exemplifying the same qualities that have distinguished Nile's work since the beginning.