We are happy to host this special show for the first time at Nocturno Live, which is made possible thanks to singer Dor Nagar’s visit to Israel for a single show only!

This is a dream come true for us: The Blackbirds, the band that burns up stages across the country, along with fine musicians and guests, will perform with Nager some of Bob Dylan’s most touching and beloved songs. The show will also focus on versions from Dylan’s legendary tour, The Rolling Thunder Revue, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, but not only that.

The greatest challenge in creating a tribute to an artist like Bob Dylan is walking the fine line between faithfulness to the original and personal interpretation. This requires deep understanding, a true connection, and, most importantly, musical maturity in presentation. For those who haven’t yet witnessed the phenomenon, Dor Nagar is endowed with a rare ability to pour truth into Dylan’s songs and to meet this challenge in an uncompromising manner. It seems that for him, the encounter with Dylan’s songs is much more than a tribute.

Over the years, he has delved deeply into Dylan’s work and the musical and literary roots from which it grew, bringing to the stage a personal, honest, and unmediated interpretation. His approach to the songs has even been appreciated by Louis Kemp, one of Dylan’s close friends and producers of the Rolling Thunder Revue, who attended his performance and expressed his impressions.

In 1975, the year Dylan released two masterpiece albums: Blood on the Tracks and Desire – and at just 34 years old, he embarked on an avant-garde and groundbreaking tour across America, known as The Rolling Thunder Revue. His intention, which was not at all commercial, was to reach out to his audience, and in his words: Play for the People – for all those who could not get tickets or get to the stadiums and big halls.

The tour, which was shrouded in mystery and at times felt more like a traveling carnival than a musical performance, was documented in Martin Scorsese’s 2019 semi-documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, which combines fact and fiction.

Dylan performed various song lists throughout the journey, but among the notable pieces that will be performed in the show are:

Oh Sister, One More Cup of Coffee, Just Like a Woman, Lay Lady Lay, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, I Shall Be Released and more.

A powerful experience. A musical séance that will attempt to capture the spirit, magic, and freedom of Bob Dylan in a way you haven’t heard before.

Featuring:

Dor Nagar – vocals, guitar and harmonica
Yohai Moyal – electric guitar
Omer Ashno – violin
Zaki German – Pedal Steel
Ron Efrati – bass
Lior Itzhaki – drums