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May 17, 2002
All For The Sea Presents Bob Dylan August 19

Master Musician and Songwriter to Perform with his Band at Southampton College

Contact:
Jane Finalborgo (PR@southampton.liu.edu)
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Six months after receiving a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album for "Love and Theft," folk-rock iconoclast Bob Dylan will perform live at Southampton College in the annual All For The Sea benefit concert Monday, August 19. This will be the legendary artist's only appearance in the New York Metropolitan area this summer.

General admission tickets at $50 will go on sale later this month. For more information and updates, call the concert hotline at 631-287-8375 or visit the concert web site at www.liu.edu/all4sea. Special packages for alumni are also available by calling the Office of Alumni Relations, 631-287-8347.

A limited number of VIP tickets, starting at $350 each, provide reserved, front-row seating and parking and admission to a private, pre-concert party in a tent adjacent to the stage with food, wines and beer from the East End's finest restaurants and caterers. For VIP tickets, or to advertise in the concert journal, call 516-299-3298. Tickets are limited. The concert benefits Marine and Environmental programs at Southampton College of Long Island University.

Gates open at 5 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. rain or shine on the college's athletic field. No alcoholic beverages, coolers, bottles, cans, umbrellas, cameras or recording devices will be permitted. Audience members should bring a blanket or beach chair. Food and beverages will be available. No tickets will be sold at the gate.

The concert is part of Dylan's current world tour for "Love and Theft," his critically-acclaimed new album on Columbia Records. His recent shows have included rarely-heard and newly-introduced cover songs as well as material drawn from all phases of his extraordinary career from his early days as a coffeehouse folksinger through his years as a rock & roll iconoclast. The new album comes in the midst of one of Dylan's most creative and prolific periods. In only four years since 1997's release of the platinum-selling "Time Out Of Mind," Dylan has performed nearly 450 concerts around the world. He also wrote and recorded "Things Have Changed," featured in the film "Wonder Boys," for which he received both the Academy Award and Golden Globe last year.

Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield gave "Love and Theft" a Five-Star review, the magazine's first for a new album since 1992 calling it "A stone-cold Dylan classic."

"[The album] takes us on a full-blown tour of American song in all its burlesque splendor, which includes, of course, Dylan's own psychedelic mutations of the blues. Relaxed, magisterial, utterly confident in every musical idiom he touches," wrote Sheffield.

During a recording career that spans more than 35 years, Bob Dylan has transformed the music world at each step of the way. He himself was influenced by the work of country, rock and folk pioneers like Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie and Buddy Holly.

"In the 1960s Dylan taught folk singers how to transcend the topical, then taught rock songwriters how to think about something more than the next romance. Casually, he created whole genres: folk rock, country rock and what's now called Americana," wrote Jon Pareles in the New York Times.

Phrases like "Blowin' in the Wind," "Don't Think Twice," "Like a Rolling Stone," "The Times They are A-Changin'" "It Ain't Me Babe," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Tangled up in Blue" are Dylan classics. And he continues to write music that breaks new ground, "filled with an energy and imagination of its own," wrote Robert Hilburn in the Los Angeles Times.

In its 11th year and after 11 concerts, All For The Sea enters its second decade as a Hamptons tradition benefiting students in Southampton College's marine and environmental science programs. All For The Sea has raised more than $6 million since its first concert in 1992. Jimmy Buffett began a string of consecutive sellouts with his 1996 All For The Sea show. Since then, artists James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Tom Petty, and Paul Simon have also sold out the popular venue.

Previous performers were Crosby, Stills & Nash (1992), Tina Turner (1993), Foreigner and the Doobie Brothers (1994), Tony Bennett (1995), the Allman Brothers (1996), Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band (1996), James Taylor (1997), Rod Stewart (1998), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1999), Jimmy Buffett again (2000), and Paul Simon (2001). The marine and environmental sciences programs at Southampton College are nationally acclaimed for their excellence and have produced 33 Fulbright Scholars in the past 27 years.