St. Louis County Board will proclaim Year of Dylan on Tuesday
The proclamation is in conjunction with yearlong festivities surrounding the 80th birthday of the musical icon born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing. 12:28 pm, May 3, 2021 ×
Bob Dylan performs at Bayfront Festival Park on Tuesday July 9, 2013. (Clint Austin / File / News Tribune)
The St. Louis County Board will celebrate Bob Dylan and his upcoming 80th birthday at its meeting in Duluth on Tuesday.
Commissioners will proclaim the Year of Dylan set to begin on Dylan s birthday, May 24, and lasting until the iconic troubadour s 81st birthday in 2022.
Referring to Dylan as a cultural giant, the proclamation outlines his birth at St. Mary s Hospital in Duluth in 1941, and his years growing up in Hibbing.