Michael Gray’s autumn mini-tour

Michael Gray, Dylan Encyclopedist and now Blind Willie McTell biographer, is busily promoting his new book. Two Scottish gigs have just been announced - a Willie McTell event at a whisky distillery in Dumfries and Galloway, as part of the Wigtown Book Festival in October, and a Bob Dylan event in Glasgow in November. These follow his September date in Birmingham:

* Thursday Sept 13, 8pm
Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues
Birmingham: Midlands Arts Centre
Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston Rd, Birmingham B12 9QH
Box Office: 0121 440 3838
https://secure.ticketsbirmingham.com/welcome.asp
tickets £9 (concessions £6.75)


* Friday Oct 5, 9pm
In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Wigtown Book Festival
Bladnoch Distillery, Bladnoch, Wigtown, Scotland DG8 9AB
Festival Box Office: 01988 403222
tickets £5


* Friday Nov 16, 8pm
Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues
Glasgow CCA
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
Box Office 0141 352 4900
www.cca-glasgow.com
tickets £11, concessions £6

Michael told The Dylan Daily that it's his first gig in Birmingham, the first in Glasgow since a short talk at a Waterstones in Sauchiehall Street in 2000, and certainly the first time he’s staged one of his events in a whisky distillery!


(Having heard the Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues presentation, I strongly recommend it – Gerry Smith, Editor.)