Bob Dylan museum opening in Tulsa
Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples will be among the dignitaries expected in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend for the opening of the Bob Dylan Center, the museum and archive celebrating the Nobel laureate’s work.
Dylan himself won’t be among them, unless he surprises everyone.
The center’s subject and namesake has an open invitation to come anytime, although his absence seems perfectly in character, said Steven Jenkins, the center’s director.
The center offers an immersive film experience, performance space, a studio where visitors can play producer and “mix” different elements of instrumentation in Dylan’s songs and a curated tour where people can take a musical journey through the stages of his career.
The archive has more than 100,000 items, many accessed only by scholars through appointment.
Dylan sold his archive in 2016 to the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation, which also operates the Woody Guthrie Center.
Dylan, 80, designed and built a 16-foot-high metal sculpture that will be displayed at the museum entrance. Otherwise, he had nothing to do with the museum’s design and declined to offer a comment about the opening.
In addition to a dinner to celebrate the opening this weekend, Costello, Smith and Staples will perform separate concerts at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.
Costello was asked to program a jukebox that will be on display at the
museum and, within a day, submitted his suggestions for 160 Dylan songs and covers, Jenkins said.
The Bob Dylan Center opens to the public May 10.
Castro wins big at Blues Music Awards:
Guitarist and singer Tommy Castro won in three top categories, including entertainer of the year, at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. The Blues Foundation held the annual ceremony honoring the year’s best blues musicians on Thursday.
Castro won the B.B.
King Entertainer of the Year award, along with top honors for album of the year for “Tommy Castro Presents a Bluesman Came to Town,” and band of the year, with The Painkillers.
Selwyn Birchwood won song of the year for “I’d Climb Mountains,” Vanessa Collier won in the contemporary blues female artist category, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram won the award for contemporary blues male artist. Other winners
include Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’, Sue Foley and Annika Chambers.
No charges in shooting at DaBaby’s house:
No charges will be filed in a shooting at the North Carolina home of rapper DaBaby, police said Thursday. Troutman police said on social media that the investigation into the April 13 shooting has been completed. DaBaby and at least one other person were at the home when the shooting happened, Troutman Police Chief Josh Watson said at the time. But Watson wouldn’t say who was shot or who did the shooting.
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