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The Bob Dylan Center is dedicated to the study and appreciation of renowned American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his cultural significance.

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Step into the Unknown. Plan your visit at the link in our bio. taken in Bob Dylan Center by @bobdylancenter

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On this day in 1992, the 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Marking Dylan's 30th year as a recording artist, the four-hour sold-out show brings together more than two dozen performers, all taking turns interpreting songs spanning Dylan's career.

Pictured: a 1993 promotional still for the concert. Photograph by Ken Regan. On display in the Columbia Records Gallery at the Bob Dylan Center. by @bobdylancenter

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Fun times at the Woody Guthrie Center and Bob Dylan Center this past Saturday during the third annual Family Folk Fest. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event – we look forward to having it again next year.

Special thanks to Nellie McKay, Avery Marshall, Alexandria Moore, Not Boxed In, Scraps Designs, Moonlight Art Factory and Magic City Books for being a part of it.

This project was funded in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Oklahoma and the National Endowment for the Arts. taken in Tulsa Arts District by @bobdylancenter

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Congratulations to Joy Harjo (@joyharjoforreal), the Bob Dylan Center's inaugural artist-in-residence and three-term U.S. Poet Laureate, on the publication of her latest collection of poems, "Cloud Runner," available today.

The collection continues a prolific year for Joy. Her latest album, "Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace," released in April through Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is up for consideration for the 69th annual Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album and Best Jazz Performance. by @bobdylancenter

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The Oklahoma City Thunder (@okcthunder) front office team, including Executive Vice President and General Manager Sam Presti and Head Coach Mark Daigneault, visited the center recently. Presti recently joined the advisory board of the American Song Archives, which manages both the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie centers. The group spent an afternoon exploring the galleries and talking with Bob Dylan Center staff members about Dylan’s creative process. The Thunder is in Tulsa tonight for a preseason matchup with the New Orleans Pelicans. The game will be preceded by Thunder UP on the Green, a free, family-friendly fan celebration at Guthrie Green (@guthriegreen), across the street from the Bob Dylan Center. taken in Bob Dylan Center by @bobdylancenter

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from @bobdylancenter &
@woodyguthriecenter

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 10, for Family Folk Fest — an annual event for families and children of all ages, hosted by the Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center.

Throughout the festival, families can enjoy live musical performances, storytelling, arts and crafts, writing activities and educational activities that encourage imagination and self-expression. Local musicians, teaching artists and community partners lead engaging activities that inspire children to create music and art of their own.

Woody Guthrie Center Artists/Activities:
Alexandria Moore - Woody Guthrie Center Theater
Nellie McKay - Woody Guthrie Center Theater
Not Boxed In - Woody Guthrie Center Lower Lobby
Moonlight Art Factory - Woody Guthrie Center Classroom

Bob Dylan Center Artists/Activities:
Rockstar Imagination Play Photo Op - Bob Dylan Center Lower Lobby
Magic City Books Story Time - Bob Dylan Center Upper Lobby
Scraps Designs Interactive Playscape - Bob Dylan Center Immersive Gallery

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Learn more and register at bobdylancenter.com/event/family-folk-fest-2026 a pretty picture of a park taken in Tulsa by @bobdylancenter

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The endearingly idiosyncratic singer-songwriter, Broadway star, ukulele virtuoso and social justice warrior Nellie McKay (@yougottaloveamerica) will make her @lowdowntulsa debut with this intimate solo performance next Friday, Oct. 9. Returning to Tulsa following her acclaimed appearance at the Dylan Center’s multi-artist “Sooner or Later: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of ‘Blonde on Blonde’” concert at Cain’s Ballroom in February 2026 — for which her renditions of “Temporary Like Achilles” and “Clothes Line Saga” delighted the sold-out crowd — McKay will now charm listeners with a mix of bracingly frank originals, standards from the Great American Songbook, and surprising covers, alternating between piano and uke. McKay’s between-song patter promises to be as memorable as her disarming songs and stylish stage presence.

Get tickets now at the link in our bio. taken in LowDown by @bobdylancenter

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Throwback to May 23, 1976, when Bob Dylan took the stage in Fort Collins, Colorado, during the final leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. The show was filmed and recorded, and it became the source for Dylan’s NBC special and the companion live album, Hard Rain 🌧️

We’re proud to share this archival moment alongside our partners at @bobdylancenter, who work every day to preserve Dylan’s legacy.

Photographs by Jerry Aronson via @retrophotoarchive taken in Fort Collins, Colorado by @bobdylancenter

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Bob Dylan’s remarkably deep and ruminative 30th studio album, "Time Out of Mind," — released 29 years ago on this day — signaled a mid-career creative renaissance and received widespread accolades and numerous awards including three Grammys, one for Album of the Year (following Dylan’s scintillating performance of lead track “Love Sick”). The album’s uncharacteristically plaintive ballad “Make You Feel My Love” is one of Dylan’s most-covered songs, with Adele, Garth Brooks, Bryan Ferry, Billy Joel and many other interpreters drawn to its lullaby-like melody.

Visitors to the Bob Dylan Center can study the “Not Dark Yet” display and hear a rare live recording of the song, and view the hypnotic performance clip of “Cold Irons Bound,” with Dylan embodying his Jack Fate character from the Larry Charles film “Masked and Anonymous.” taken in Bob Dylan Center by @bobdylancenter

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The American Song Archives — the home of the archives of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Cynthia Gooding and many other archival and library collections — is currently hiring an Education and Merchandising Coordinator.

Apply today at the link in our bio. taken in Tulsa Arts District by @bobdylancenter

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In Sept. 2019, "Bob Dylan Retrospectrum" went on display at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai — an exhibition featuring more than 250 of Bob Dylan's artworks in an array of media.

Pictured: reproduction of the "Retrospectrum" exhibition poster featuring one of Dylan's paintings, Modern Art Museum Shanghai, China. On display in the Columbia Records Gallery at the Bob Dylan Center. by @bobdylancenter

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Martin Scorsese’s sweeping two-part four-hour documentary on Bob Dylan’s early years and creative journey up to the pivotal year 1966 originally aired on Sept. 26–27, 2005 and has captivated longtime Dylanologists and successive generations of fans ever since. Having previously directed The Band’s farewell concert documentary “The Last Waltz” — with a scene-stealing Dylan performing “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” — and later delving into the myths and legends of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour for his playful 2019 film, Scorsese here blends captivating archival footage with present-day interviews (with Suze Rotolo, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsburg and many more we-were-there contemporaries) to create a kaleidoscopic view of Dylan’s freewheeling rise, dizzying fame and unprecedented cultural impact.

Pictured: movie poster for the documentary, "No Direction Home," on display in the Columbia Records Gallery at the Bob Dylan Center. taken in Bob Dylan Center by @bobdylancenter

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