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Bob Dylan Adds to 2023 Tour

by Best Classic Bands Staff

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Bob Dylan has announced additional 2023 concerts of his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” worldwide tour 2021-2024, named for his acclaimed 2020 studio album. The July concerts in Italy, announced on March 15, follow the June shows in Portugal, Span and France that were announced on March 10. His first shows of the year will be eight April performances in Japan that were announced on Feb. 9. (The latter were originally supposed to take place in 2020 but were cancelled due to the pandemic.) These new concerts represent his first since he completed an extensive tour of Europe, the U.K. and Ireland on Nov. 7 with what has typically been a 17-song set. Dylan turns 82 years old on May 24. Tickets for the majority of the Italy shows will be available for purchase on March 18.

Dylan began the tour Nov. 2, 2021, with concerts in the U.S., representing the Bard’s first live performances in nearly two years. (Dylan’s last live concert before that was Dec. 8, 2019, in Washington, D.C., following a 10-show residency at the Beacon, part of a lengthy fall 2019 U.S. tour.)

The “Rough and Rowdy Ways” debut concert took place in Milwaukee, Wisc., with an 18-song set that leaned heavily on Dylan’s most recent studio album, performing eight of the LP’s 10 tracks.

Watch him perform “I Contain Multitudes” on the tour’s second night, Nov. 3, in Chicago

Bob Dylan 2023 Tour Dates (Tickets may also become available here and here)

Apr 6-8 – Osaka, Japan – Festival Hall
Apr 11-12 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Garden Theater
Apr 14-16 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Garden Theater
Apr 18-20 – Nagoya, Japan – Aichi Arts Center
Jun 02 – Porto, Portugal – Coliseu do Porto
Jun 4-5 – Lisbon, Portugal – Campo Pequeno
Jun 7-8 – Madrid, Spain – Noches del Botanico
Jun 10-11 – Seville, Spain – Fibes Auditorium
Jun 13 – Grenada, Spain – Teatro del Generalife
Jun 15 – Alicante, Spain – Plaza de Toros Alicante
Jun 17 – Huesca, Spain – Plaza de Toros de Huesca
Jun 19-20 – San Sebastian, Spain – Auditorio Kursaal
Jun 21 – Logrono, Spain – Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja
Jun 23-24 – Barcelona, Spain – Gran Teatre del Liceu
Jun 26 – Carcassonne, France – Theatre Jean-Deschamps
Jun 27 – Aix-en-Provence, France – Arena du Pays d’Aix
Jun 29-30 – Lyon, France – L’Amphitheatre
Jul 3-4 – Milan, Italy – Teatro degli Arcimboldi
Jul 06 – Lucca, Italy – Piazza Napoleone
Jul 07 – Perugia, Italy – Umbria Jazz – Arena Santa Giuliana
Jul 09 – Rome, Italy – Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica

More dates to be announced.

Watch Dylan perform “Gotta Serve Somebody” in 2022

The latest – and 17th -edition of his Bootleg Series, Fragments—Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997), arrived on Jan. 27. Read why our review called it “brilliant.”