Recommendations of the Editorial team
When artists of a certain age come to town, it is often said that it could be the last chance to see them live. Many people then buy a card to pay their last respects to the legend.
In the case of Bob Dylan, of course, this is complete nonsense. Because even though he calls his concert tour since the end of the pandemic the “Rough And Rowdy Ways” tour since his most recent album from 2020, we all know that he has been on a non-stop tour since July 7, 1988 – except for the forced Covid break – which includes well over 3,000 concerts in total.
In the fall he also toured Germany and played some concerts in Hamburg, Lingen and Cologne that were almost unanimously celebrated by critics and fans. Somehow Dylan’s attitude and method seem to fit well into the present. “Never completing the songs and allowing all expectations to come to nothing contradicts the principles of homogenization, classification and optimization underlying AI, and sets something human against them – that is, on the one hand fallible, on the other hand truthful,” it recently said in the annual review edition of our “ROLLING STONE Living Room” newsletter.
Dylan as an antidote to digital perfection
“The unfinished (that which is in the making, not completed) and the imperfect (cracks, scratches, dents, irregularities, grains) create a poetics of the open that seeks the truth in the crack, in the roughness, in the trace. In a culture that values efficiency and flawlessness above all else, these aesthetics act like an antidote: they give the world back its fragility – and with it its depth.”
Like he did recently announced personally on Xhe will be back on the world’s stages in 2026. In the spring, it has now been announced, he will be on tour with his band in the Midwest and South of the USA. The 27-date leg of the “Rough And Rowdy Ways” tour begins March 21st in Omaha, Nebraska and ends May 1st in the Texas town of Abilene.
The “Rough And Rowdy Ways” Tour 2026
- March Omaha United States Orpheum Theater
- March Sioux Falls Mary W. Sommervold Hall
- March Rochester Mayo Civic Center
- March Iowa City Hancher Auditorium
- March La Crosse La Crosse Center
- March Rockford Coronado Theater
- March Waukegan Genesee Theater
- March Muncie Emens Auditorum
- April Grand Rapids DeVos Performance Hall
- April Saginaw The Theater
- April Detroit Detroit Masonic Temple
- April Louisville The Louisville Palace
- April Columbus Palace Theater
- April Cleveland KeyBank State Theater
- April Dayton Winsupply Theater
- April Knoxville Knoxville Civic Auditorum
- April Bowling Green Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center
- April Chattanooga Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
- April Asheville Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
- April Spartanburg Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium
- April Macon Macon City Auditorium
- April Dothan Dothan Civic Center
- April Jackson Thalia Mara Hall
- April Baton Rouge Raising Cane’s Theater for the Performing Arts
- April Shreveport Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium
- April Tyler Cowan Center
- May Abilene Abilene Auditorium