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Bob Dylan Booked for May 2 Concert at Davidson
When tickets were made available on campus last Tuesday, first year students (l-r) Alea Skwara and Davis Greene strategized with fifteen friends to be first in line to get some of the best seats in the house.
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3/24/2006
Contact: Bill Giduz 704/894-2244 or bigiduz@davidson.edu
Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 25, for a Tuesday, May 2, concert at Davidson College by folksinger and rock music icon Bob Dylan.
Tickets are $45, and may be purchased from 10-4 weekdays at the Alvarez College Union ticket office, or by calling 704-894-2135. Tickets are also available online at this link.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m. on May 2 in Belk Arena of the Baker Sports Center.
Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He attended one year of college at the University of Minnesota before dropping out to pursue a career in music. Much of Dylan's best known work is from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated politics, social commentary, philosophy and literary influences, defying existing pop music conventions and appealing widely to the counterculture of the time. While expanding and personalizing musical styles, he has shown steadfast devotion to traditions of American song, from folk and country/blues to rock 'n' roll and rockabilly, to Gaelic balladry, even jazz, swing and Broadway.
"No Direction Home" is one of forty-three releases by Dylan in his long career.
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Dylan plays the guitar, keyboard and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s, and has recorded 43 albums throughout his career. His most recent album of new songs, Love and Theft, reached #5 on the charts in the US and #3 in Britain.
Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1,700 students. Since its founding by Presbyterians in 1837, the college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently recognized as one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the nation.
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