Bob Dylan to perform at Hop Farm Festival

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Bob Dylan will make his first appearance at the UK festival this summer together with stalwarts like Peter Gabriel and Suede. The seventy year old songster will perform along with Primal Scream, Patti Smith as well as her band and Damien Rice.

Bob Dylan whose original name is Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on24th May in the year 1941. He is a legendary American singer and songwriter as well as a musician. He has been a prominent personality in popular music and culture for over five decades. He holds a place of much respect and admiration in the hearts of people worldwide.

Lots of his eminent works are from the 1960s when he was not a professional singer and a teller of tales. He was apparently unwilling front man of social unrest. His songs had inspired people and had become anthem for US Civil Rights and other anti war activities.

Bob Dylan played eighty nine times all over the world on his Never Ending tour last year, completing shows in London in the month of November last year. At present he is planning to visit South America for lots of performances in the month of April.

This legendary singer had in the past played at the Hop Farm festival in the year 2010.
The Hop Farm festival came into being 5 years ago by a promoter named Vince Power.

This Festival was conceived to be an independent event that holds pride in having no sponsorships and no branding philosophy. Last year the headliners were Prince and Morrissey. This year concert will take place at Paddock Wood near Kent. The program will raise curtains on 29th, 30th June and on 1st July.

THE NEW ALBUM

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The new album Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is a four disk, seventy-five track sporting dozens of occupying artists covering Bob Dylan. I really do not want to speak about much about the album since I did not have the time to fully digest the album. But, I really wanted to spend some time on the track: Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus’ presentation of “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” a classic by Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.

The time when the track-list turned out on the net went nuts over it the popular television star Miley Cyrus. There were various kinds of reaction like “ruins the entire set”, “God-awful”, “Ridiculous” “what were they thinking?”, “threw up in my mouth” and many more.

Recently, 6 local musicians have brought Bob Dylan’s work and the jazz sound music in a collaboration which will be performed on 3rd March at the Springville Center for the Arts. The final result is Jazzim’, which is a mixture of songwriting and jazz’s art form. Dana Oakes asked Alex Sabuda to take part in Jazzim.’ Alex Sabuda designed the arrangements of jazz and also was Dana Oakes’ mentor in the collaboration.

Sabuda and Oakes are joined by drummer Charlie Porter and bassist Nick Kowalski, as well as guests Susan (saxophone) Crane and Ken (trombone), both of whom are adjuvant music professors at nearby colleges. Ken has toured with musicians including Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry, Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra.

Participants of Jazzim’ perform spells like “Make You Feel My Love” (1997) and “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1962). Tickets for general admission can be bought online at www.springvillearts.org or by calling at 592-3098 or even during the SCA’s open gallery hours.

Bob Dylan Tribute Album Released in Jan

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“Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International” is slated to release on January 24 in North America and the album will hit international stores on Febuary 6, 2012. The album consists of a 4 disc CD which contains 73 tracks. 76 tracks can be individually downloaded and packed into a digital album.

It is to be noted that Amnesty International has seen incredible and liberal international support from various music retailers such as Amazon, Google Music, iTunes, Starbucks and many more. The tracks of Chimes Of Freedom are already playing across NPR radio network such as KCRW-LA, WXPN-PHILLY and across multiple SiriusXM satellite channels.

The new album’s proceeds are expected to benefit Amnesty International’s efforts to free political prisoners across the globe and the album features voices of veteran as well as young artists.

While on one hand you have 92 year folk singer Pete Seeger, on the other hand you have the voice of the young Miley Cyrus. The album is dedicated to thousands of people worldwide who are imprisoned or threatened for peacefully expressing their beliefs. Dylan came up with his first album in 1962 after Amnesty International began its fight for prisoners of conscience. Dylan started as Guthrie clone but evolved himself as widely lauded singer and song writer. His initial exposure is credited to Joan Baez who recorded his songs.

This is not the first time that an album is being released on similar lines. In 2007, an album titled “Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur” for which several veteran and young artists recorded songs of John Lennon fetched the organization more than $ 4 million. It remains to be seen how this album performs and at the same time how much it helps in Amnesty International’s cause.