Bob Dylan is rumoured to be in the final stages of agreeing a rare European performance at this year’s Hop Farm Festival in Kent.
According to an apparently well-informed source on expectingrain.com – one of the singer’s largest fan sites – Dylan will play on the opening night of the festival, which runs from the 3rd of July until the 5th.
Hop Farm organisers have not yet confirmed any acts for this year’s festival, but according to Dylan’s official website, he is set to perform at various shows in Eastern and Central Europe in early June as part of his ‘Never Ending’ Tour.
Dylan and his band have played roughly 100 shows a year throughout the 1990s and 2000s as part of the endless tour, with 10 large gigs across the UK and Ireland last year.
The festival’s ‘no sponsorship, no branding’ policy may have attracted the folk legend as other festivals expand into huge corporate events. The notoriously secretive Dylan has recently branched out into more commercial ventures, allowing his music to be used on adverts for Apple’s iPod and the Co-operative bank, and hosting his radio show, ‘Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour.’
The 69-year old singer’s latest album, his 34th was a bizarre mixture of Christmas hymns and carols, with Dylan’s distinctive nasal whine continuing to decline into a tuneless growl.
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