Legends Dylan and Young to rock Kilkenny next Summer!
LEGENDARY musicians Bob Dylan and Neil Young will rock Kilkenny next year.
The double header concert will happen on July 14 at Nowlan Park.
Tickets go on sale on Monday at 9am, Peter Aiken, director of Aiken Promotions confirmed to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.
The two will also headline the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park along with Robbie Williams next year as part of an open-air show.
Aiken said this morning: “I suggested would they like to come to Ireland [afterwards], to come to Kilkenny, and we’ve been talking about it for the past six months.”
The promoter said he experts people to travel to Kilkenny from all over the world to see this performance.
When asked if the two got on with each other, Aiken said: “I’m sure they have a lot of time for each other, a lot of respect for each other.”
American singer-songwriter Dylan has been a music and culture icon, particularly in the 1960s. In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
Young, a Canadian rock and folk musician is famed for his reedy voice and personal lyrics. He’s been nominated for a slew of Grammy awards, winning three.
