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We want our money back!’ But we were thrilled to be pulling this off - and for only 50 bucks. “At that time he was still not known, and we actually had people complain, ‘Who’s this guy? What’s he doing? He plays harmonica and talks. "I think we paid him 50 bucks,” she says. The former president of U-M's Folklore Society before she graduated in 1961, Kimmey helped book Dylan at the 1962 fest. The Michigan Daily 's review of that 1962 concert spelled Dylan's name correctly and raved about his performance - even if the man himself would have preferred to be riding his motorcycle in the countryside rather than play a university ballroom.ĭylan also took part in the hootenanny on April 21, 1962, with other Ann Arbor Folk Festival performers, according to this September 23, 2014, article in The Michigan Daily, which also features remembrances by Marie Kimmey. Mike was playing for fun, Dylan to learn and improve. Mike was by far the more accomplished musician, but Dylan had a focus and intensity about his music that was memorable. For at least an hour, Dylan and a local musician I knew, Mike Scherker, sat opposite each other on beds, playing their guitars alternately and together. I don’t remember much of it – though I think it was the first time I’d seen any musician with headgear to support the harmonica – but I have a vivid memory of Bob Dylan at the party afterwards. My memory is that I decided to walk two blocks to the Frieze Building and see the concert. I wasn’t planning to go, but while at a Laundromat that evening, I saw the flyer. I was in my last term at the University, living on E. That show is sometimes forgotten about by writers because they have to expand their concert-database searches to find it: Dylan, who had released his self-titled debut LP the month before, was so little known that he was mistakenly advertised as "Bob Dillon," as shown in this ad in The Michigan Daily.Īnother Daily ad, reprinted in Neil Cossar’s 2018 book Bob Dylan: The Day I Was There, showed Dylan's name spelled correctly and also quotes Jay Margulies about the 1962 concert and its afterparty: When Bob Dylan plays Hill Auditorium on November 6, it'll be the 12th time he's played Ann Arbor (and the 13th time in Washtenaw County when counting his 2007 concert with Elvis Costello at EMU Convocation Center).īut unlike what is sometimes stated, his first solo show was not September 9, 1964, at Ann Arbor High School (now Pioneer) it was on April 22, 1962, at the Union Ballroom as part of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Right: Poster for Dylan's 1996 concert at Hill Auditorium. Left: Concert poster for Bob Dylan's 1964 appearance and Ann Arbor High School (now Pioneer).