The times they are a-changin’, but Bob Dylan is still coming to Boise for a concert

Ticket prices. Metal detectors. Pandemic guidelines.

Going to a concert is a very different experience now than it was when folk icon Bob Dylan started performing. But the 80-year-old legend is still doing shows — including in Boise.

Dylan will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets become available to the general public at 10 a.m. this Friday at Ticketmaster for $59.50, $89.50 and $132.50. Presales start Thursday. Dylan is in the midst of his “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour,” which is slated to continue into 2024.

When Dylan last visited Boise for a concert, tickets were $52 — in 2010 at the Idaho Botanical Garden. Hey, it’s like Dylan sings: “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”

One thing that stays the same? The fact that Dylan has a “unique” singing style. You sort of have to take it or leave it, particularly as the quirky singer-songwriter ages. (His birthday is next week — May 24 — by the way.)

Dylan’s shows are notoriously inconsistent but still can be pretty great. When he gigs at the Morrison Center, will he sound like he did decades ago? Not likely. Nevertheless, it’s tough for die-hard fans to argue with the slim possibility — as remote as it might be — of hearing “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Just Like a Woman” and “Lay Lady Lay” in any form. (No, those songs have not been on his recent setlists.)