Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio—all different from last year’s presentation. Selections include early acoustic versions of “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Girl from the North Country;” an intense rendition of “Isis” from the Rolling Thunder Revue, with Dylan in face paint; a delicate performance of “Simple Twist of Fate” featuring Scarlet Rivera on violin; The Band backing a swaggering run-through of “Baby Let Me Follow You Down;” a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man” with Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many more treasures.

Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the program and engage in a post-screening discussion about the films and the mission and activities of the Center with special guest Bill Frisell, who will round out the program with a brief solo-electric performance.

This program is generously supported by the Salisbury Fund.

Bob Dylan Center

The Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa, OK in May 2022 as the permanent home of the Bob Dylan Archive. The mission of the Center is to inspire and celebrate fearless creativity by exploring the music and artistry of the Nobel Prize–winning singer-songwriter as a catalyst for personal expression and cultural change.

Bill Frisell

Over fifty years, thousands of performances and dozens of award-winning recordings, Bill Frisell has honed a gleefully unclassifiable sound on electric guitar in a creative journey marked by wonderfully rewarding left turns and musical surprises. A partial list of Frisell’s collaborators includes Ron Carter, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, the Frankfurt Ballet, Allen Ginsberg, Petra Haden, Rickie Lee Jones, Allison Krauss, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Plant, Ron Sexsmith, Paul Simon, McCoy Tyner, Gus Van Sant, Suzanne Vega, Louden Wainwright III, Lucinda Williams, Hal Wilner and John Zorn. In March 2026, the Bob Dylan Center presented Frisell’s 75^th-birthday celebration in Tulsa, for which he performed stunning new arrangements of many of his favorite Dylan songs in a trio format. In September 2022, Frisell participated in A Tribute to Bob Dylan, a multi-artist evening of live performances curated by T Bone Burnett and presented at The Town Hall in partnership with the Bob Dylan Center.