Performance

The Songs of Bob Dylan & Paul Simon

1 upcoming performance in New York

At Symphony Space, *The Songs of Bob Dylan & Paul Simon* treats two intertwined New York songwriting lineages as living material, not museum pieces. The program moves through Dylan’s and Simon’s catalogs in performance and reflection, with featured artists Ani DiFranco, Tony Trischka, Abby Jimenez, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Caro Claire Burke bringing distinct vocal and instrumental histories to the same set of questions about language, politics, and daily life. In a city that helped shape both writers’ careers, the evening reads as a quiet survey of how American songs get revised in public. One clear takeaway is how differently each writer uses narrative to make argument.