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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp to Play The Dell Diamond

April 24, 2009 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Round Rock Express News Release


ROUND ROCK - For just the second time in 24 years, music legends Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will join together for a nationwide tour - a tour that includes a stop in Round Rock.

The Round Rock Express and Ryan Sanders Baseball announced Friday that the 2009 Ballpark Tour will play The Dell Diamond on Tuesday, Aug. 4. The 22-city tour will also play Whataburger Field, home of the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks, on Wednesday, Aug. 5.

Tickets for the Round Rock event will go on sale to the public through TicketMaster and through the Round Rock Express box office beginning May 16. All tickets will be general admission and priced at $67.50. Kids 14 and under can get in free with an adult who purchases a general admission ticket.

"Bringing concerts and other special events to our ballparks was one of our key initiatives for 2009," said Express founder and CEO Reid Ryan. "To be able to see Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp - all in one night - is pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we know Central Texas will truly enjoy."

Besides performing over 100 concerts each year for the past 15 years, Dylan drops into millions of households each week with his highly popular satellite radio program Theme Time Radio Hour. In recent years, he has also received the big-screen treatment, courtesy of film director Martin Scorcese, with the critically acclaimed release of No Direction Home, the first feature-length film biography of Dylan. Prior to that, he spent over 20 weeks on the New York Times best seller list with the publication of Chronicles: Volume One, the first in a series of the artist's self-penned personal histories.

In between these high-water marks, Dylan has earned multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Kennedy Center Honor (the highest honor of artistic achievement given in the United States). As a recording artist, he continues to hit the long ball. After debuting at No. 1 with his last record, Modern Times, Dylan is about to release a brand new studio album on April 28 through Columbia Records.

Over the course of a career that has spanned more than 30 years, Mellencamp has released 23 albums with worldwide sales of over 40 million units while amassing 22 Top 40 hit songs. In 2008, the same year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Life Death Love and Freedom was issued. Rolling Stone called the album "one of the most compelling albums of Mellencamp's career" and placed it among the Top 5 albums of the year.

Mellencamp's ties to Willie Nelson date back to 1985 - the year they joined forces to mount the first Farm Aid benefit concert that also featured a stellar set from Dylan. Besides rallying his friends each year to support Farm Aid, Nelson is quite possibly the most prolific recording artist in any genre of music. In the past five years alone he has released no less than a dozen records, and when he's not in the studio recording new albums, he fills time writing books, acting in feature films and generally keeping a pace unimaginable for someone half his age.

For more information about the tour and presale opportunities, visit www.bobdylan.com and check back at www.roundrockexpress.com as the May 16 ticket sale date approaches.

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