Bob Dylan Significantly Expands 2025 Tour (To Peoria Literally)

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The original key art for Bob Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways” 2021-2024 tour.

Bob Dylan is far busier than the average 83 year-old. The final date of what was initially billed as the “Rough and Rowdy Ways” worldwide tour 2021-2024, named for his acclaimed 2020 studio album, took place last Nov. 14, the third of three nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. And on Sept. 20, a massive 27-CD box set, Bob Dylan and the Band: The 1974 Live Recordings, arrived via Legacy Recordings.

He’s the subject of a popular biopic, A Complete Unknown, that covers the early years of his career and whose star, Timothée Chalamet, hosted Saturday Night Live on January 25, just days after earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance. Actually, the 29 year-old did double duty for the sketch comedy series: he was also booked as the musical guest.

But back to the “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour. A visit to the Tour page of Dylan’s website on January 21 revealed a solitary date on his 2025 calendar. It was for March 25 at the Tulsa Theater, the very city in Oklahoma in which the acclaimed Bob Dylan Center was opened in 2022. Tickets for the concert went on sale on Jan. 25 and quickly sold-out, the same day Chalamet hosted SNL.

What’s Bob Dylan got cooking for 2025?

On January 27, three more dates appeared for late March and early April, all in the U.S. midwest. Days later… on February 2, many more shows were added, with the number totaling 20, mostly still in the midwest in smaller cities like Davenport, Iowa and Topeka, Kansas and Peoria, Illinois. Tickets for the latest shows go on sale to the general public on February 7 here.

Bob Dylan “Rough and Rowdy Ways” 2025 Tour (Tickets will be available here and here)
Mar 25 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Theater
Mar 26 – Little Rock, AR – Robinson Center
Mar 28 – Springfield, MO – Juanita K. Hammond Hall for the Perf. Arts
Mar 29 – Wichita, KS – Century II Concert Hall
Mar 30 – Topeka, KS – Topeka PAC
Apr 01 – Omaha, NE – Orpheum Theater
Apr 02 – Sioux City, IA – Orpheum Theatre
Apr 04 – Mankato, MN – Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center
Apr 05 – Eau Claire, WI – The Sonnentag Center
Apr 06 – Green Bay, WI – The Weidner – Cofrin Family Hall
Apr 08 – Davenport, IA – Adler Theatre
Apr 09 – Peoria, IL – Prairie Home Alliance Theater
Apr 11 – West Lafayette, IN – Purdue Univ. – Elliott Hall of Music
Apr 12 – Fort Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre
Apr 14 – South Bend, IN – Morris PAC
Apr 16 – Kalamazoo, MI – Western Michigan State Univ. – Miller Auditorium
Apr 17 – Toledo, OH – Stranahan Theater
Apr 19 – Youngstown, OH – Powers Auditorium at DeYor PAC
Apr 21 – Pittsburgh, PA – Benedum Center for the Perf. Arts
Apr 22 – Williamsport, PA – Community Arts Center

Chalamet began the program’s first musical segment with a surprise of sorts. Rather than opting for one of Dylan’s iconic songs of the era depicted in A Complete Unknown, he went with the raucous “Outlaw Blues” from 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home album, followed by “Three Angels” from 1970’s New Morning.

SNL, currently in its 50th season, is well known for surprise cameo appearances from A-Listers. What could have been more of a “big get” for the program’s longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, than a guest spot from the Bard himself? We can only imagine Dylan performing side-by-side with Chalamet singing one of his own songs. Or better yet: walking on stage during the host’s opening monologue. (Neither happened.)

Chalamet returned to perform “Tomorrow is a Long Time.”

2025 also marks the 60th anniversary of Dylan’s electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival, the culminating event of the biopic. The key art for the tour no longer features the 2021-2024 dates. As the tagline says, “Things aren’t what they were…”