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Simply Dylan

Sat 31 May 7:30 pm

Sat 31 May – Saltburn Theatre.

Venue doors 6:45pm / Show 7:30pm / Tickets £21.00 + b.f. /

Simply Dylan is the brainchild of John O’Connell. No frills, no gimmicks, no pretence – this is ‘a tribute to Bob Dylan, not a Bob Dylan tribute’.

His band’s precise playing and high-energy renditions of Dylan’s work from the 1970s onwards have gathered momentum and generated incredible interest from modest origins as a project recognising Dylan’s 70th Birthday in 2011.

Since then Simply Dylan have gone from strength to strength – selling out the Cavern Club 6 times, receiving fantastic reviews for their international tours and opening up the Isle of Wight Festival on the Big Top Stage.

And tickets are currently flying out for their latest full band tour which takes in some of the country’s most prestigious venues including Gateshead Glasshouse, Salford Lowry and Liverpool Royal Philharmonic.

For this stripped-down acoustic show John will be playing with a 4-piece band featuring instruments including violin, sax, banjo, mandolin and of course harmonica.

Last word goes to Alan Bleasdale, playwright of Boys from the Blackstuff fame.

‘Together, Simply Dylan marry the extraordinary range and beauty of Dylan’s lyrics with the joyous and exuberant, celebratory sound I have  always secretly wanted to hear whenever, in recent decades, I have listened to Bob Dylan.

No one can ever go back in time to recall the wonder and near disbelief of discovering Dylan for the first time, but I can make no finer tribute to Simply Dylan than to reveal that they allowed this old man to go back and listen again with love to his first and only hero’

Saltburn Theatre

Corner of Albion Terrace & Windsor Road TS12 1JW
01287 624 997