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I’m a huge music fan and I love all kinds of different genres, but I’m not a big Bob Dylan fan.

Created: May 24, 2021 10:00 PM From the streets of Duluth and Hibbing to music and culture around the world, Bob Dylans influence is palpable everywhere. And hes a son of the North Country.  Dylan was born at St. Marys hospital in Duluth on May 24, 1941. He lived in a duplex in the Duluth Hillside until he was 6 years old, when his family moved to Hibbing.  "I dont believe he would have been who he is had he come from somewhere else," blogger and Duluth Dylan Fest volunteer Ed Newma...

Copy shortlink: Bob Dylans native county will honor him with an entire years worth of 80th birthday celebrations. Born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, Minn., the musician, writer and Nobel laureate hits the milestone birthday May 24, and St. Louis County is expected to proclaim that day until his next birthday "The Year of Dylan." A Dylan celebration "needed to be big," said Zane Bail, a member of Duluth Dylan Fest, a grassroots fan group. "Given the cultural icon he is...

HIBBING - On Oct. 13, 2016, the Nobel Prize Committee announced that Hibbing native Bob Dylan was the first singer-songwriter in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Shortly thereafter, a volunteer-run group of community-minded citizens formed the Hibbing Dylan Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Endeavoring to create a public work of art to honor Bob Dylan for this pinnacle ...