KMUW Music is teaming up to celebrate the birthday of Bob Dylan on Thursday, May 24. Tune in to Global Village, Strange Currency and Night Train from 7:00 p.m. to midnight for five hours of Dylan and Dylan-inspired music.
Global Village gets the celebration started with a show devoted to world music artists doing Dylan songs and world music-influenced versions of his work. There’s Dylan tunes by Cuba’s Vocal Sampling, the art-folk Quercus trio (June Tabor, Huw Warren & Iain Bellamy), the Hudson album from Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski and John Scofield, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Robert Plant, reggae great Toots Hibbert, and more.
The special feature continues on Strange Currency with selections from The Band, John Martyn, Steve Wynn, Gregg Allman and, of course, Dylan himself.
Night Train wraps up the birthday celebration with jazz covers of Bob Dylan's songs from Madeleine Peyroux, Ben Sidran, Bobby McFerrin, and Kurt Elling.
- Global Village | 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- Strange Currency | 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
- Night Train | 10:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
