Bob Dylan

BELGRADE - The 3rd Belgrade singer-songwriter festival "Kantfest", dedicated to Bob Dylan, will be held on November 24-27.

Over forty contestants from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Montenegro, BiH, Macedonia and Serbia will perform.

In the competitive part of the program, singer-songwriters will only perform their original songs accompanied by one instrument.

Singer and pianist Maria Markesini will be accompanied by accordionist Bert van den Brink in an evening of works penned by Manos Hadjidakis, Mimis Plessas, Michel Legrand, Kurt Weill, Bob Dylan and Stephane Grappelli, among others, at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, November 1. The event starts at 8.30 p.m. and admission costs 10 to 15 euros.

Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?

One-woman plays are risky business - particularly when they aim to condense a complicated play within a play that addresses many different concepts, such as revolution, civil disobedience, murder and insanity.

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941. The balladeer, artist and actor who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas – had long been tipped as a potential prize recipient.

Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2016, announced Reuters.

The Swedish academy awarded the prize to the singer for "the creation of a new poetic language in the American song tradition."

With this prize, the 75-year old rock musician has been officially recognised as a poet.

American music legend Bob Dylan on Oct. 13 won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers.

Silky-voiced communist propaganda broadcaster "Hanoi Hannah," famous for urging American GIs to leave her country during the Vietnam War, has died at age 87, friends said Oct. 4.

The 25th Akbank Jazz Festival will host one of the most significant musicians who reflects the unique atmosphere of Scandinavian art, Susanne Sundfør. The artist will take the stage on Oct. 31 at Zorlu PSM within the scope of her "Ten Love Songs" tour, organized in support of her sixth album, which was released in February.  

The 25th Akbank Jazz Festival will host one of the most significant musicians who reflects the unique atmosphere of Scandinavian art, Susanne Sundfør. The artist will take the stage on Oct. 31 at Zorlu PSM within the scope of her "Ten Love Songs" tour, organized in support of her sixth album, which was released in February.