Bob Dylan tickets for the 2011 summer will find the legendary folk musician traversing across the country. For Dylan is back on his annual summer concert tour with shows scheduled from July 14 to August 20, 2011. Bob will be kicking off the 23-city national tour with a concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, CA and ending, as of yet, at the Bangor Waterfront Pavilion in Bangor, ME. Dylan is making his way across the country on a horseshoe. He will travel down from California through the desert Western states through the Southwest to the South and up the coast until the final concert in Maine. OnlineSeats has cheap Bob Dylan tickets for all those shows.

Bob Dylan has been a major popular figure for the past five decades. Although he never set out simply to sell tickets and albums, Dylan has become one of the biggest draws in almost every generation. His thought provoking lyrics have had an impact on politics and social problems, avoiding the generalities of pop music and infusing philosophical and literary references into his songs.

Bob Dylan emerged out of Minnesota onto the folk scene in 1959 at the age of 18. Then known as Robert Zimmerman, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota and found folk music. Previously he was entranced by rock and roll. With a guitar, harmonica, and keyboard, Dylan began to play at the 10 O'clock Scholar, a coffee house on campus, and on concerts with the Dinkytown folk music circuit, trying to establish himself as a folk musician, not worrying about selling tickets.

Zimmerman decided to change his name early on. Originally he wanted to be known as Robert Allen, but the name was already taken. After reading some poems by Dylan Thomas, Bob decided that the Dylan and Allen sounded similar enough and that the "D" made a much stronger impression.