Bob Dylan announces November gig at Dublin's 3Arena

The Bard of American music returns to Ireland at relatively short notice to tour recent LP 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'

Fri, 26 Aug, 2022 - 08:54

Mike McGrath Bryan

Bob Dylan is set to return to Dublin this November.

Currently in the middle of a late-career renaissance, and off the back of a lucrative rights deal with Universal on a body of work stretching back over seven decades, the Bard is extending his current leg of touring with a newly-announced gig at 3Arena on Monday November 7.

With 2020 double-LP 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' coming in for critical acclaim, led by seventeen-minute single 'Murder Most Foul' (a chronicle of the Kennedy assassination), the gig is a relatively short-notice addition to the singer's touring itinerary.

While info is thin on the ground from organisers, they have let it be known that this will be a mobile phone-free gig.

One of the pillars of American music since emerging as a voice of protest in the 1960s, Dylan's body of work and reputation are already the subject of popular adoration and academic study, while a recent re-recording of iconic single 'Blowin' in the Wind' recently fetched $1.7m at auction - pointing to the idea of musical one-offs being sold as fine art.