The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988.

Tour

The Never Ending Tour 2002 started in Florida, where Dylan had not performed since September 1999. The tour continued through the southern United States.

The tour then moved on to Europe where Dylan played twenty seven cities in twelve countries including nine concerts in Germany and seven in England.

After performing Europe Dylan returned to North America performing in Canada and the United States. During this leg of the tour Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival. This was the first time he performed at the festival since the controversial performance there in July 1965.

After completing his US summer tour, Dylan performed a round tour of the United States starting in Seattle, Washington, on October 4 and coming to an end in Fairfax, Virginia, on November 22. It was after this last performance that Charlie Sexton left Bob Dylan’s band. He returned to Dylan’s band line-up in Summer 2009.

The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988.

Background

The first leg of the tour taking place solely in North America was announced on February 12, 2015, With several dates in Memphis, Tulsa, Kansas City and St. Louis being announced in the following days and weeks.

Dylan planned an extensive tour of Europe split between the summer and fall. During the summer Dylan and his band performed mainly at festivals and large arenas. During the fall Dylan and his band performed mainly in theatres and mid-sized arenas, including a five night residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London. His performances at the Royal Albert Hall were awarded a five star review from the Financial Times And his performances at the O₂ Apollo in Manchester were given a four star rating by the Manchester Evening News.

Tour Dates

Cancellations and rescheduled shows

Notes

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance on October 25, 2015 in London, England. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988.

Tour

In 2005, Dylan toured the United States with Merle Haggard. The tour included several residencies at various venues. These included three nights in Seattle, two nights in Portland, three nights in Oakland, five nights in Los Angeles, two nights in Denver, five nights in Chicago, two nights in Milwaukee, three nights in Boston and five nights in New York City.

After completing the first leg of the tour Dylan started out on a US ballpark tour with Willie Nelson starting in South Fort Myers, Florida on May 25 and ended Saint Paul, Minnesota on July 12.

Five days after the end of the previous leg Dylan performed six shows in Canada without any co-headliners and five shows in the United States.

Dylan returned to Europe after 15 months in the fall of 2005. He performed 31 shows over the space of two months covering 13 countries and 27 cities. The tour started in Stockholm, Sweden on October 17 and finished on November 27 in Dublin, Ireland.

The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988.

During the course of the tour, musicians have come and gone and the band has continued to evolve. They have amassed a huge fan base; some fans have traveled around the world to attend as many Dylan shows as possible.

According to the count maintained by Olof Björner's Dylan website Still On The Road, Dylan played his 2,000th show of the Never Ending Tour on October 16, 2007, in Dayton, Ohio. Dylan has attributed much of the versatility of his live shows to the talent of his backing band, with whom he recorded the albums Love and Theft (2001), Modern Times (2006), Together Through Life (2009), Christmas in the Heart (2009), Tempest (2012) and Shadows in the Night (2015).

Name

The tour's name was cemented when journalist Adrian Deevoy published his interview with Dylan in Q Magazine no.39, December 1989. The critic Michael Gray listened to Deevoy's interview tape, and points out in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia that though Deevoy's article put the phrase into Dylan's mouth, in fact the label came from Deevoy in the following exchange:

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