What’s Bob Dylan Got Planned For 2025?

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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, is hosting Saturday Night Live this coming weekend, January 25. Actually, the 29 year-old is doing double duty for the sketch comedy series: he’s also booked as the musical guest. And since the show, currently in its 50th season, is well known for surprise cameo appearance from A-Listers, what could be more of a surprise—and who could be 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. We’ll find out soon enough.

But back to the “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour. A visit to the Tour page of Dylan’s website today (January 21) revealed a just-announced solitary date on his 2025 calendar. It’s for March 25 at the Tulsa Theater, the very city in Oklahoma in which the acclaimed Bob Dylan Center was opened in 202. Tickets go on sale this Saturday here, the same day Chalamet hosts SNL.

What’s Bob Dylan got cooking for 2025?

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 and—though it’s anyone’s guess—it would at least seem that the buzz from Chalamet’s hosting and musical appearance would be a good platform to announce a 2025 Dylan tour or, at minimum, a series of events the Dylan Center. As the tagline says, “Things aren’t what they were…”

We’ll be watching.