Dylan Days: Music, Literature and Art in Hibbing, Minn.

Dates set for Dylan Days 2009

Welcome to the online home of Dylan Days, an organization supporting the arts and honoring Bob Dylan in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota. The next Dylan Days will be held May 21-24, 2009. Headline events are still being determined, but Dylan Days always includes traditions like the singer/songwriter contest, literary showcase, visual arts contest, and Bobby Zimmerman bus tour.

You can still get a taste of Dylan Days 2008 throughout this summer. The highlight of this year’s Dylan Days was the opening of a special exhibit at Ironworld in nearby Chisholm, Minn., called “Tangled up in Ore,” a retrospective of Dylan’s time in Hibbing and his place in Iron Range history and culture. This exhibit will remain open with special programming all summer until Aug. 3. Check it out!

This year's Dylan Days also brought the world premiere of an original one-act play selected during the first annual Dylan Days One-Act Play contest, which attracted entries from all over the world. In addition, folk icon Ramblin' Jack Elliott headlined a Dylan Days Benefit Concert for the Hibbing Arts Council.

We are a small town group with a big dream, to expand the arts in Northern Minnesota and welcome people from around the world for music, art, writing and stories. Dylan Days welcomes you to create art or experience art in the place where Bob Dylan and many others first learned about love, conflict and the human condition. The only way to know what happens at Dylan Days is to come to Hibbing and see for yourself.

What's new at DylanDays.com?

Stay tuned for announcements about Dylan Days 2009, including information on how to enter the writing contest, playwright contest, singer/songwriter contest and another exciting entertainment lineup.
Dylan Days names the winners of the 2008 Singer/Songwriter Contest:
1. Danny Fox, New Lenox, Ill.
2. Collen Myhre, Carlton, Minn.
3. Taryn Gillespie, Mavine, Minn.

Dylan Days names the winners of the 2008 Visual Arts Contest
1. Kathryn Judnick
2. Judy Novak
3. Carol Evensen
Order the exciting new edition of seminal Dylan biography "Positively Main Street" by Dylan Days featured author Toby Thompson
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Dylan Days announces the winners of its 2008 Creative Writing and Playwright Contest
The complete 2008 Dylan Days schedule is now available!

Learn more about Dylan Days 2008 featured author Toby Thompson and his book "Positively Main Street." Thompson will speak and conduct a writing workshop at this year's event.

Our past winners in the Dylan Days Creative Writing contest are now listed in a Hall of Fame.

Dylan Days is an annual event organized by Dylan Arts Celebration, an association dedicated to advancing the arts in Bob Dylan's hometown.