Bob Dylan‘s touring continues to appear never-ending, to use the catchphrase that fans long ago applied to his near-constant bouts of road work. Now the west coast will be the beneficiary of that, as Dylan has added a fresh string of dates to his itinerary that include a batch of shows in California.
There has been no formal announcement going out about the added shows, as of this writing, but eagle-eyed fans saw the concerts had gone up on Dylan’s tour page Monday night.
Dylan does not have an L.A. show scheduled, per se, but he’s playing just about everywhere in the vicinity but L.A. County, so Angelenos who want to catch him this summer will have plenty of opportunities for a short drive, to Santa Barbara, Palm Desert, Highland or San Diego.
One place Dylan won’t be this summer is on Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Festival. He was a co-headliner with Nelson for extensive tours the past two summers, including shows at the Hollywood Bowl. But Nelson’s tour routing for the 2026 festival went out Tuesday morning and Dylan was not among the participants, in what is likely a friendly “most likely you go your way and I’ll go mine” situation. (Nelson only has 12 dates scheduled for this summer’s outing, versus the 35 that he and Dylan did together in 2025.)
Dylan’s west coast swing will kick off June 4 in Troutdale, Oregon, at McMenamins Edgefield. Then he has a two nighter June 4 and 6 at the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, Washington. It’s back to Oregon, by way of Eugene, on June 12, as he plays the Cuthbert Amphitheatre.
The California leg of his journey begins June 12 in Lincoln, Calif., at the Venue at Thunder Valley. He goes on to do two nights at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre June 13-14.
Moving south, Dylan will perform at the Santa Barbara Bowl on June 17. The following night, June 18, he plays in Highland at what may be the most intimate hall on the schedule, the Yaamava’ Theatre. (Being a casino show, admission to that one is adults-only, in case anyone was planning to introduce their kids to “Rough & Rowdy Ways” in the Inland Empire.)
He goes from possibly the smallest to possibly the largest venue on the itinerary when he hits the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert June 20. Dylan wraps up his sojourn in California with a show at San Diego’s Rady Shell at Jacobs park June 21.
By the time he gets to Phoenix, it will be two nights later, as he plays the Arizona Financial Theatre on June 23.
He begins to venture eastward as July dates kick in, with a show in Thackerville, Oklahoma on July 2 and two nights at Wolf Trap in Virginia July 24-25.
Tickets for most of the west coast shows are set to go on sale March 27, although Santa Barbara won’t be putting tickets up till March 28.
Dylan seems to be adding shows piecemeal rather than an entire show at once, so it seems highly likely more dates will be added.
The west-coast swing comes on top of dates in other parts of the country Dylan had already announced for March, April and the very beginning of May, with shows taking place mostly in the Midwest and South. Concerts on his calendar for those months are mostly in secondary markets, ranging from Muncie, Indiana to Knoxville, Tennessee to Tyler, Texas.
See the full lineup of Dylan tour dates, with ticketing links, on his website here.
Dylan began his 2026 touring in Omaha, Nebraska on March 21, followed by a show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota the following night. Again, fans were eagle-eyed and noted that the Omaha show was billed as a continuation of the “Rough & Rowdy Tour” that has gone on for several years — whereas by night 2 in Sioux Falls, the graphic for the concert had changed to merely billing it as part of a “North American Tour.”
Nonetheless, whatever the billing may have changed to, Dylan is still performing six songs a night from “Rough & Rowdy Ways.” The sets have similarities to what he was doing on the road last year, with the additions of “Man in the Long Black Coat,” which he had not played in concert since the 2010s, and “Nervous Breakdown,” an Eddie Cochran cover he’d never sung publicly before.
The arrangements are not exactly the same as last year, however, as Dylan fans were surprised to hear his band sticking only to acoustic guitars and not electrics during the year’s opening shows.
One reason Dylan may have for preferring his own shows to jumping back on the Outlaw Music Festival this year: He continues to order phones to be locked in pouches on his own tour dates, something he wasn’t able to do when touring with Nelson.
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