Dylan will be joined on the impressive bill by Elvis Costello and veteran guitarist BB King at the five day festival which will be held between April 21st-25th 2011.
The festival’s director Peter Noble told ABC News he had first booked Dylan in 2003, but was hit with a late cancellation, and added: “He used to say, ‘Don’t put me in any town I’ve never heard of’, and finally we’ve done it. Although I think he’s heard of Byron now.
Bob Dylan and BB King are rock royalty, and we especially wanted to get Dylan because of the counter-culture and protest music in his early career representing a lot of what Byron Bay was once about. Byron used to be such an anti-establishment hippy town and to get Bob to play here has always been the Holy Grail. Elvis Costello is the icing on the cake of the best line-up we’ve had in years.”
Joining Bob Dylan, BB King and Elvis Costello will be the likes of Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Mavis Staples and Ben Harper, who is set to unleash his new project Fistful Of Mercy, which features George Harrison‘s son Dhani.