The Blackbirds and Dor Nagel | Double Bob Dylan | Snail Tel Aviv 27.8
A special performance featuring the Blackbirds Band and singer Dor Nagar, who perform covers of beloved Bob Dylan songs. The show focuses on versions from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour, offering a personal and honest interpretation of Dylan's work. Two performances will take place in the same evening: one at 7:30 PM and another at 10:30 PM.
A special performance featuring the Blackbirds Band and singer Dor Nagar, who perform covers of beloved Bob Dylan songs. The show focuses on versions from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour, offering a personal and honest interpretation of Dylan's work. Two performances will take place in the same evening: one at 7:30 PM and another at 10:30 PM.
We are thrilled to welcome back this special performance, made possible by singer Dor Nagar’s visit to Israel for only two shows.
Two shows in one day! The first is early at 19:30 and the second is late at 22:30!
This is a dream come true for us: The Blackbirds, the band that sets stages ablaze across the country, along with excellent musicians and guests, will perform some of Bob Dylan’s most touching and beloved songs with Nagar. 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, genuine connection, and above all, musical maturity in delivery. For those who have not yet witnessed the phenomenon, Dor Nagar possesses a rare ability to breathe truth into Dylan’s songs and meet this challenge uncompromisingly. It seems that for him, the encounter with Dylan’s songs is much more than a tribute.
Over the years, he has delved deeper into Dylan’s work and the musical and literary roots from which it sprang, bringing to the stage a personal, honest, and unpretentious interpretation. His approach to these songs even earned the appreciation of Louis Kemp, one of Dylan’s close friends and producers of The Rolling Thunder Revue, who attended his performance and expressed his impression.
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 entirely non-commercial, was to get closer to his audience, and in his words: Play for the People – for everyone who could not afford tickets or reach stadiums and large halls.
The tour, shrouded in mystery and often feeling more like a traveling carnival than a musical performance, was documented in Martin Scorsese’s 2019 semi-documentary film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, which blends fact and fiction.
Dylan performed various setlists throughout the tour, but among the standout pieces to be performed in this show you can find: 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 attempting to capture the spirit, magic, and freedom of Bob Dylan in a way you have never heard before.
Participating:
Dor Nagar – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Yohei Moyal – electric guitar
Omer Ashnu – violin
Zaki German – pedal steel
Ron Afrati – bass
Lior Yitzhaki – drums
