Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Dylan will be one of the first performers at Jackson’s Thalia Mara Hall when the venue reopens next year.
Dylan will take the stage at Thalia Mara on Saturday, April 25, as part of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour. It will be his first performance in Mississippi since performing at the MSU Riley Center in Meridian in April 2022.
Tickets for Dylan at Thalia Mara go on sale Friday, Dec. 12, at 10 a.m. CT. They can be purchased here.
Dylan has been an icon of the music scene for over six decades. The 84-year-old singer-songwriter is one of the best-selling artists of all time with an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide. Songs of note include but are not limited to “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”
He’s won 10 Grammy Awards across 38 nominations, and in addition to being inducted into the Rock Hall in 1988, he’s enshrined in the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
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A deep cut of Dylan’s that is directly connected with Mississippi is his 1963 song, “Oxford Town,” which is an account of James Meredith becoming the first Black student at the University of Mississippi. It was part of his second album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” which was mostly made up of protest songs and took exception to racial injustice and war.
Following Dylan’s stop at Thalia Mara – which has been closed since August 2024 but is set to reopen in January – he will go to Shreveport, La. (April 28), Tyler, Texas (April 29), and Abilene, Texas (May 1).