Bob Dylan is becoming a member of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Competition this summer season, performing in any respect 25 reveals throughout the annual touring competition.
The legendary musicians and longtime mates shall be accompanied by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss on the primary leg of the tour, which kicks off June 21 in Alpharetta, Ga. John Mellencamp will be part of the second leg on July 29, along with his first Outlaw present set for North Island Credit score Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, Calif.
Dylan and Nelson are billed to play Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on July 31, the place Mellencamp and “Sober & Skinny” singer Brittney Spencer will be part of them. Nelson notably performed the Bowl final summer season when he celebrated his ninetieth birthday with a lot of his mates, together with Neil Younger, Beck, George Strait, Kris Kristofferson, Snoop Dogg, Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews and the Chicks.
As for Outlaw, recognized for its consortium of progressive-country and Americana acts, Celisse and Southern Avenue will play numerous stops and Billy Strings will be part of the tour for one present on the Gorge Amphitheatre exterior Seattle on Aug. 10.
The competition wraps on Sept. 17 in Buffalo, N.Y., and tickets go on sale Friday. Citi card members can entry presale tickets from Tuesday till Thursday by means of the Citi Leisure program.
“This yr’s Outlaw Music Competition Tour guarantees to be the most important and finest but with this lineup of legendary artists,” Nelson stated Tuesday in a assertion on the competition web site. “I’m thrilled to get again on the highway once more with my household and mates taking part in the music we love for the followers we love.”
Amongst these mates is Dylan, who will be part of the complete tour for the primary time. Nelson’s “Heartland” co-writer beforehand carried out a number of reveals with the competition in 2017. Extra not too long ago, the “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and “The Occasions They Are a-Changin’” singer-songwriter has largely carried out at intimate theaters in North America.
The Outlaw Music Competition debuted in Scranton, Pa., in 2016. Its success prompted Nelson, his longtime supervisor Mark Rothbaum and promoter Blackbird Presents to flip it right into a touring franchise, increasing to 10 cities in 2017 and 18 in 2018. The competition made its first cease in L.A. in 2018 when Nelson and his Household Band have been joined on the Bowl by Grateful Lifeless alumnus Phil Lesh & Pals together with Sturgill Simpson and Margo Value, Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson and his band, the Promise of the Actual, and Particle Child.
