Bob Dylan To Resume Tour With 2 Arizona Shows In March

TUCSON, AZ —Legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan announced this week that he is resuming his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour this spring, and the first two shows will be in Arizona.

On March 3, Dylan will perform at Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, before playing the following night at the Tucson Music Hall. Both concerts are scheduled for 8 p.m.

Presale and VIP Tickets for the shows are available online beginning at 10 a.m. MST Thursday. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. MST Friday. Details about how to purchase tickets are available on Bob Dylan's website.

Dylan, 80, played the first leg of his tour in the fall of 2021, and he currently has 27 dates scheduled for the second leg in March and April. The tour is expected to last until 2024.

According to UltimateClassicRock.com, the majority of Dylan's set list on the tour has come from the singer's 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. However, Dylan also has pulled out some surprising numbers, including "To Be Alone With You," from the 1969 album Nashville Skyline, a song Dylan had not performed since 2005.

Dylan was last scheduled to play in the Phoenix area in 2020, according to the Arizona Republic. However, the concert at Gila River Arena in Glendale was canceled due to the pandemic.

Bob Dylan's career has lasted over 60 years, and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

"Bob Dylan is as great a songwriter – ah, let's not beat around the bush – as great an artist as America has produced," said Bill Flanagan, an author, television producer and radio host, in 2007.

Flanagan continued: "But (Dylan would be) the first to tell you that he is part of a long line, one link in an endless chain. You can follow his influence backward or forward according to your own inclination. Or you can spend a long time just listening to Dylan's (six) decades of contributions. Wherever you go into it, and whatever you get out of it, your time will be well spent"