The Bob Dylan Center will open on May 10, 2022, welcoming visitors from around the world to access and interact with more than 100,000 exclusive cultural treasures found in The Bob Dylan Archive. Photo: AFP
Bob Dylan fans will soon have a new site of pilgrimage: Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States. After a career spanning more than half a century, the American songwriter will be honoured with the opening of a museum in his name in spring 2022.
In the three-storey building, Dylanphiles will be able to discover more than 100,000 artefacts tracing the life and work of the folk legend.
On display will be manuscripts of his best-known songs, previously unreleased recordings and rare photographs such as a portrait of the artist on stage during his 1974 tour, taken by the late photographer Barry Feinstein.
Oklahoman
A new concert series believed to be the first of its kind is launching next week on downtown Oklahoma City s Bricktown Canal.
Tickets are on sale today for the Showboat Concert Series, which will offer live concerts by local musicians on one of the Bricktown Water Taxis Thursday nights through the end of August.
Starting next week with OKC singer-songwriter Carter Sampson, the series will offer 7, 8 and 9 p.m. sets on Thursday nights. Concertgoers will check in at the Bricktown Brewery, and if they arrive 30 to 45 minutes before showtime, they will be entitled to two complimentary beers before the show. Ticketholders also can buy half-priced growlers (or jugs) of beer to take along with them for their floating concert.
An audio version of this story The facility that will house and exhibit more than 100,000 artifacts created and owned by folk singer Bob Dylan will open May 10, 2022.
The Bob Dylan Center will be in the Tulsa Arts District, facing Guthrie Green and steps away from the Woody Guthrie Center.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Tulsa acquired the Bob Dylan Archive in 2016. Items in it include handwritten manuscripts, previously unreleased recordings and rare photographs.
One example of treasures in archive is a recording of Dylan performing “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” in the fall of 1962. This previously unknown recording was made by Milton (Mell) and Lillian Bailey, friends and early champions of the young Dylan when he was a fixture in New York’s Greenwich Village folk scene. This version of the song, recorded in the Baileys’ apartment, features alternate lyrics and is the earliest known recording of the song that was eventually released in 1
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