Yes, he may be “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Tangled Up in Blue,” but Bob Dylan is bringing his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” to Charm City on Thanksgiving Weekend.
The 82-year-old singer-songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 2016 Nobel laureate — formerly known as Robert Allen Zimmerman (or Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) of Hibbing, Minnesota — will perform at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, at 1212 Cathedral St., on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 24-25.
Known as one of the most prolific, groundbreaking and accomplished songwriters of the 20th and 21st centuries, Dylan has been a major force in American music for more than six decades, with 39 studio albums under his belt as well as an Academy Award, Golden Globe, 10 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour” is a celebration of his universally-praised 2020 album of the same name that peaked at No. 1 in more than 10 countries and No. 2 in the United States and Australia.
The Baltimore concert launches the BSO’s “Live at the Meyerhoff” performance series. (The BSO will not perform at the Dylan concert.)
“Scheduled to last through 2024, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is happy to lend its iconic concert hall as a tour stop,” the BSO said in a statement.
Dylan’s most recent concert in the Baltimore area was in November of 2019 at the UMBC Event Center in Catonsville. His first concert in the area was on Oct. 17, 1965, at what was then known as the Baltimore Civic Center.
Among Dylan’s most famous early topical songs, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” was based on a generally factual account of the killing of a 51-year-old Black bar waitress at Baltimore’s old Emerson Hotel by a young white plantation owner from Southern Maryland. In past concerts, Dylan has also performed the late folk singer Tim Hardin’s song, “The Lady Came from Baltimore.”
Tickets for the Dylan concert will go on sale on Friday, Oct. 6, at 10 a.m. For information, visit BSOmusic.org.
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