From a modest beginning in a small café in Red Bank, NJ, Pat Guadagno has taken BobFest to theaters from San Diego to Nashville and always back home to NJ. For over 25 years, the series changes theme every year, from once performing 60 songs on Dylan’s 60th birthday to mesmerizing audiences last year with bootleg, rare, and alternative versions of songs from the poet’s vast catalog, always with world-class musicians. This year, to honor the Nobel Prize winner Guadagno joins five international award-winning Songwriters to tell their Stories and sing some Bob Dylan Songs – ‘In the Round-Nashville Style’.

Nā Hōkū Hanohano and Grammy Award-winner John Cruz is featured in the Playing for Change Foundation videos supporting the global effort to create positive change through music and arts education. John’s music has been recorded by Jackson Brown and Jack Johnson, and his composition Island Style has become the official Hawaiian anthem.

BobFest

May 28, 2026

BobFest

BobFest