Crossroad of the North Concert

UW-Superior’s Music Department is presents Crossroad of the North, a concert featuring the music of Bob Dylan.

This narrated performance also explores John Hammond’s history in the city of Superior as an ancestral crossroad of the north.

When record producer Hammond signed Dylan to Columbia Records in 1961, neither of them knew the fate of their meeting had begun generations before them in the building of Superior. Hammond’s grandfather, Civil War hero General John Hammond, built the city from swamp land and Dylan’s ancestors found Superior as their shelter from persecution in Lithuania.

Dan Singer, an alumnus of the UW-Superior Music Department, shares his personal story and connection to this crossroad together with UW-Superior faculty members Alexander Sandor on piano and Erin Aldridge on violin in collaboration with Danny Frank & the Smoky Gold.

From the Delta Blues of Robert Johnson to Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Paul Robeson and Leonard Cohen, Dylan and Hammond joined forces to transform American popular culture through their combined music and activism a century after the Civil War.

Tickets are $10 and available at the door. Thorpe Langley Auditorium is in Old Main building on the UWS campus.