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Famed singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is set to bring the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour to Alabama in 2026.

Announced Monday morning, Dylan will embark on an extensive tour through primarily small towns across the U.S. Dothan will fall in the latter half of the 27-stop stretch.

When: 8PM | April 23, 2026
Where: Dothan Civic Center
Tickets: On sale Friday, Dec. 12 at 10AM

Dylan was recently Alabama in just 2022 when he played three sold-out shows in Montgomery, Birmingham and Mobile. However, this will be only Dylan’s second time to visit the Wiregrass in his over six decades of touring.

Dothan Airport 2 E1731342738772 Alabama, Bob Dylan, Concerts, Dothan Alabama, Wiregrass — A mural at the Dothan Regional Airport. (City of Dothan)

Bob Dylan + Alabama

The state of Alabama + the famous singer-songwriter go way back. Dylan has long been an icon as his music dove headfirst into the Civil Rights era. His lyrics directly referenced injustice and desire for freedom for Black Americans in the South with songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” becoming anthems for the movement.

In February 1980, Dylan recorded his twentieth studio album in North Alabama at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, produced by Alabama native Barry Beckett.

1995 saw adversity as Dylan was snubbed by Dothanites. When tour schedulers for the Never Ending Tour reached out to the Dothan Civic Center in hopes of booking Dylan, they were apparently told that people in Dothan wouldn’t come.

Bob Dylan fans, or Dylanologists, were enraged following a news report on the snub. The Civic Center changed their minds, and Dylan played a set on October 12, 1995 at the Civic Center.

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