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On this day in 1963, Bob Dylan released his second studio album, “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.” The album featured some of his most enduring songs, including “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and marked his emergence as a major voice in American folk music. With its blend of social commentary and lyrical depth, Freewheelin’ helped define a pivotal moment in 1960s culture.

Pictured: “Bob Dylan, En Roue Libre...” (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan) LP, Columbia Records, France, released May 1965 – two years after the US release of the album. Currently on display as part of the exhibition “Going Electric: Bob Dylan ’65.”

“Going Electric: Bob Dylan ’65” is generously supported by Presenting Sponsors Bob and Debbie Russell. Learn more about the exhibit at the link in our bio.

Planned Giving extends the legacy of Bob Dylan Center and its mission 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. To learn more about how to include Bob Dylan Center in your plans, visit the link in our bio.

Following last year’s foray into favorite film soundtracks, “Ten Songs (Plus One or Two)” — the Bob Dylan Center’s bimonthly members-only series of listening sessions hosted by center director Steven Jenkins — returns to the movies next month with a playlist celebrating the pleasures of double features, the allure of masterful directors and larger-than-life stars, and the sorts of character-rich narratives and widescreen soundscapes that make us as listeners feel as if we’re living in a movie of our own. Cineastes such as Air, Portishead and U2 (with a scene-stealing Pavarotti) create themes for imaginary films, Big Audio Dynamite marvels at the cult classics of Nicolas Roeg, and Camera Obscura falls in love with Catherine Deneuve (who doesn’t?). Daniel Day-Lewis, Marilyn and Bogie make memorable cameos. Save me the aisle seat. Whisperers will be shushed.

This event will be offered in-person and virtually via Zoom. To learn more or become a member, visit the link in our bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

Live drawing from the @wscabinetofwonders presented by the @bobdylancenter in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday night. Fun weekend with @wesleystace @joshrouseofficial @joyharjoforreal Dennis Diken, @davidnagler @ejc.555 @marshall.crenshaw @bobcatgoldthwait , Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. Wandering the Dylan Center before the show was about as inspiring as you can imagine. Grateful to Wes, @narkiewicz, the Dylan Center the @philbrookmuseum and especially @stevenjenkins2727 for putting together such a great night. 25 prints are available at the link in my bio.

This Thursday, join Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins for an online discussion with music and media journalist Barry Mazor about his definitive biography of one of the most influential acts in pop music history, the Everly Brothers.

Zoom in for this virtual chat as Mazor discusses “Blood Harmony” and fields questions from Jenkins and attendees.

Learn more and get tickets at the link in our bio.

This event is the third installment of the 2026 Bob Dylan Center Book Club, made possible thanks to the generous support of Presenting Supporters, Joe Donnelly and Becky Thorson.

In March, in celebration of his 75th birthday, masterful guitarist and composer Bill Frisell prepared a special concert presented by the Bob Dylan Center in the acoustically pristine Patti Johnson Wilson Auditorium at the Philbrook Museum of Art. The setting proved to be appropriately artful and pensive as Frisell — accompanied by Luke Bergman on bass and Tim Angulo on drums — performed highly imaginative, beautiful and beguiling interpretations of some of his favorite Dylan songs, including “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” “Positively 4th Street” and “Masters of War” always finding just the right notes and tones to tease out new moods and meanings in every song. From the first number, a wonderfully deconstructed yet inclusive rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” to the final delicate encore of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Frisell, Bergman and Angulo merged impeccable musicianship with a generosity of spirit that held the audience in hushed reverence, culminating in a standing ovation and an impromptu, hearty serenading of “Happy Birthday” to send Frisell off on a wave of best wishes.

Bob Dylan Center Senior Director Steven Jenkins moderated a pre-concert onstage conversation with Frisell for VIP ticket holders where Frisell spoke about his earliest exposure to Dylan’s music and messages.

The Bob Dylan Center gratefully acknowledges the support of Robert Mailer Anderson and Nicola Miner; The Miner Anderson Family Foundation in making this program possible. Additional support generously provided by Edith and Glenn Wilson.

As a tie-in to the current “Going Electric: Bob Dylan ’65” exhibition, on view through July 5, the Bob Dylan Center is pleased to present an evening with Scott Freiman, host of the popular PBS series “Deconstructing the Beatles.” For this special multimedia event at Circle Cinema, Freiman will deconstruct folk music, exploring the genre’s roots and evolutions in both the U.S. and U.K. — from ancient British ballads and Appalachian work songs to the thriving folk revival scenes of the 1950s and ‘60s — as these traditions led to the chiming guitars and literary lyrics of folk rock.

Tickets on sale now at the link in bio.

This Sunday, May 17, the Bob Dylan Center is once again partnering with multitalented singer-songwriter-impresario Wesley Stace to present the second biannual Cabinet of Wonders extravaganza right here in Tulsa. Tickets are now on sale for the one-of-a-kind variety show that features Stace and his versatile three-piece band, The English UK, performing with an always-eclectic and ever-changing lineup of musicians, writers, comedians and visual artists, hand-picked by the Kabinettmeister himself.

This year's lineup includes (in alphabetical order): live-drawing artist Michael Arthur; esteemed singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw; Emmy Award–winning actor and producer Anthony Edwards; stand-up comic, screenwriter and director Bobcat Goldthwait; inaugural Bob Dylan Center artist-in-residence and former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo; Nashville-based singer-songwriter Josh Rouse; and Academy Award–nominated actress and "Girl from the North Country" Broadway star Mare Winningham. Stace and his crack band — bassist Eddie Carlson, guitarist and keyboardist David Nagler, and for this show Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken — will play their own set and back up their fellow performers.

Get tickets at the link in our bio.

Touring as part of Lukas Nelson’s band, and in town for a show at Cain’s Ballroom earlier this month, pedal steel player Dakota Holden and drummer Max Flanders visited the Bob Dylan Center, gazing up at the larger-than-life image of the young singer-songwriter, freshly arrived in New York City, that greets visitors in the center lobby.

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

Four years ago today, the Bob Dylan Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

Celebrate this milestone and support our ongoing mission — become a member today at the link in our bio.

Photos by Adam Koloff Photography/Phil Clarkin Photography

While in town to infuse the “Sooner or Later” concert with their divine harmonies and commanding stage presence, Regina and Alfreda McCrary — two-thirds of the magisterial gospel trio The McCrary Sisters — sat down with center director Steven Jenkins to discuss their long history with Dylan. As Regina relates in the interview excerpt below, their collaboration began when she was asked to audition for a somewhat mysterious gig with the famously taciturn star of the show, who hid in the shadows in the far end of the rehearsal room while Regina belted out a few tunes in her inimitable style. Her powerhouse vocals rightly convinced Dylan that he'd found the backup singer he'd been searching for. They went on tour together, and Dylan became fast friends with the entire McCrary family.

Later that evening, the McCrary Sisters thrilled the sold-out “Sooner or Later” crowd with amazing renditions of “Pledging My Time” and “What Good Am I,” and further enlivened the show by performing with fellow featured artists Natalie Merchant on “Ring Them Bells,” and Craig Finn on “Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heart).”

Watch the full video at the link in our bio.

“Sooner or Later” was generously supported by the Presenting Sponsor Harper House Music Foundation.