Simply Dylan – Acoustic

Tickets on sale from 12 noon on Friday 3rd July.

Redhills Live in association with Big Mouth Productions.

We feel lucky and privileged to have secured a date for this one!

Simply Dylan is the brainchild of John O’Connell. No frills, no gimmicks, no pretence – this is ‘a tribute to Bob Dylan, not a Bob Dylan tribute’.

His band’s precise playing and high-energy renditions of Dylan’s work from the 1970s onwards have gathered momentum and generated incredible interest from modest origins as a project recognising Dylan’s 70th Birthday in 2011.

Since then Simply Dylan have gone from strength to strength – selling out the Cavern Club multiple times, receiving fantastic reviews for their international tours and opening up the Isle of Wight Festival on the Big Top Stage. Their tours take in some of the finest venues in the land – from The Lowry in Salford to Liverpool Royal Philharmonic to the Glasshouse a bit closer to home.

We’re bringing the acoustic version of the show to Redhills, featuring a super-talented multi-instrumentalist 4-piece band that includes violin, sax, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, acoustic and electric guitars, alongside soul-stirring vocal harmonies.

Take it from us – this will be a great show!

Last word goes to Alan Bleasdale, playwright of Boys from the Blackstuff fame.

‘Together, Simply Dylan marry the extraordinary range and beauty of Dylan’s lyrics with the joyous and exuberant, celebratory sound I have always secretly wanted to hear whenever, in recent decades, I have listened to Bob Dylan. No one can ever go back in time to recall the wonder and near disbelief of discovering Dylan for the first time, but I can make no finer tribute to Simply Dylan than to reveal that they allowed this old man to go back and listen again with love to his first and only hero.’