Some performers booked to appear, either live or via pre-recorded videos, at the Dylan Fans for Harris Livestream include… (More are being added all the time!)
MUSICIANS:
 | Jeff Slate is known as a world-class frontman and songwriter on the New York City music scene, where his band’s monthly residency in the heart of Chelsea draws sellout crowds and famous guests. Slate came up in the mid-1980s US East Coast post-punk scene, playing CBGBs and other legendary clubs of the day. By the early ’90s, Slate was a solo artist, and made his name working with The Who’s Pete Townshend, touring with Sheryl Crow and founding the mod-influenced band The Badge. Since then, Slate’s solo releases have included famous friends and A-list session players, and his songs have appeared in advertising and films, and on television, including in the hit show Gossip Girl. Slate has also toured throughout the US over the past 14 years, sharing the stage with Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, Willie Nile and Margo Price, as well as headlining the Switchyard Festival at Tulsa’s legendary Cain’s Ballroom, and Tom Petty Weekend in the late artist’s hometown of Gainesville, Florida. Jeff’s fourth solo album, The Last Day of Summer, featuring Dave Stewart, Duff McKagan, Earl Slick, members of Paul Weller’s band and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, is out now on Schnitzel Records. |
 | John Fugelsang is an actor, comedian, and TV host whom you might have seen singing “If You Belonged To Me” with George Harrison at his final performance, or hosting Paul McCartney’s VH1 Town Hall. He appeared over twenty times on Politically Incorrect, and is a regular commentator and guest on nationally syndicated progressive radio program The Stephanie Miller Show. On his Twitter account he talks about Dylan regularly. John is planning to zoom in to the livestream before an appearance in New York! |
 | Emma Swift is an Australian-born songwriter, currently residing in Nashville, TN. A gifted singer inspired by Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt and Sandy Denny, Emma’s sound is a blend of classic folk, Americana and indie rock. Although she writes her own songs, she is best known for her interpretations of other people’s work. In August 2020 she released the critically-acclaimed “Blonde On The Tracks”, an inspired reimagining of some of her favourite Bob Dylan tunes on Tiny Ghost Records. The album received Best of 2020 accolades from Rolling Stone, Nashville Scene, No Depression, The Guardian and more. The album charted in the Australian Top 10, as well as in the UK, US and European Americana Charts. In 2021, Rolling Stone Magazine named her version of Bob Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately” as #17 in the 80 Best Dylan covers of all-time. |
 | Ezra Furman is a singer, songwriter, and author whose incendiary music has soundtracked the Netflix show Sex Education. For her recent album All Us Flames she took inspiration from Bob Dylan’s ’80s albums, whose tone she describes as “a little bitter and a little hopeful,” as well as the collective ferocity of ’60s girl groups, particularly the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes. Her other albums include the Springsteen-inflected road saga Transangelic Exodus (which AllMusic calls “awe-inspiring”), and the furious punk rock Twelve Nudes. They weave together stories of queer discontent and unlikely, fragile intimacies |
 | The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Nelson formed the DC-based band The Paranoid Style in 2012, wedding a background in labor organizing and musical theater to her love of the of the Mekons, the Specials, Merle Haggard, Sleater-Kinney, and the Kinks. Following the word-of-mouth underground smash Rock & Roll Just Can’t Recall in 2015, she signed with the legendary Hoboken indie Bar/None Records, which subsequently issued the acclaimed releases Rolling Disclosure, Underworld USA, A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life, and For Executive Meeting. She has been profiled in the New Yorker and praised by NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, and the Dean of American Rock Criticism Robert Christgau. Nelson also is a decorated journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Oxford American, The Wall Street Journal and The Ringer on the topics of music, sports, film and television, and politics. In February 2024, The Paranoid Style released their most recent LP The Interrogator, their biggest-sounding and best-selling album to date, and their first to feature legendary pop icon Peter Holsapple of the dB’s on lead guitar. Elizabeth also wrote the liner notes for the upcoming Bob Dylan 1974 tour boxed set. She will be joined by Peter Holsapple, founder of The dBs and longtime sideman for REM and Hootie and the Blowfish. |
 | Mary Lee Kortes Perhaps the New York Times described her songwriting best when it called the songs of Mary Lee Kortes “so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural”. The Village Voice agreed, calling her “a masterful songwriter”, and clearly one with her own voice, says Rolling Stone, proclaiming “the bright bite in Kortes’ voice combines the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde”. Mary Lee has released four CD’s of original compositions under her performance name “Mary Lee’s Corvette”, all to international acclaim and all landing on Billboard Magazine’s “ten best records of the year” in their years of release. She also released one album of covers — a complete, song-for-song recording of Dylan’s classic “Blood On The Tracks,” hailed by many critics as daring, and earning four stars from Rolling Stone for its “quietly direct magnificence…. Dylan likes this album so much he’s featured one of the tracks on his web site”. |
 | Elijah Wald is, in addition to being a musician himself, the author of such books as Dave Van Ronk: Mayor of McDougal Street (which inspired the Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis) and the recent Dylan Goes Electric! (a major source for the upcoming film A Complete Unknown). |
 | 2024 marks ten years since the release of Ross W Berman‘s debut album The Folk City Hustle. One decade, and seven bandcamp albums later, Berman has become a unique, chaotic voice in folk and blues, bouncing between wry humor and self-righteous fury. Often found playing at local bars and comedy theaters, Berman’s takes on Chicago, America, and anything else range from sweet to goofy to caustic. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Larson |
 | The Cody Melville Band is Cody, John Melville, Joel Cannon and Phil Cohen. They are a NYC band who are currently recording their latest album ‘Joey Saint’ the follow-up record to ‘Dogs in this Town’ and previous release ‘Bonds Eye’. “If you like lyrical, noisy, articulate rock and roll, you could almost weep listening to Bonds Eye. Simply for the fact that you thought you’d never hear anything like it again” – American Songwriter Magazine |
 | Southern Gothic Swing! The Circus Band of the Apocalypse! Americana Gumbo! Whatever you call it and however you slice it, Mayhayley’s Grave serves up a raucous good time every time! Throw on an old top hat, brush the dust off those dancing shoes, keep your crucifix close at hand, and join in le Dance Macabre, because Mayhayley’s Grave is going to make you shake them bones and wake the dead! |
 | Allison Rapp is a New York City-based music and culture writer. Her work has appeared in Ultimate Classic Rock, where she is currently an assistant editor, Brooklyn Magazine, Insider, Rock Cellar, City Limits and more. She is also the host of Big Yellow Podcast, a show about Joni Mitchell. She tweets at @allisonrapp22 |
 | Trev Gibb (King of the Sea) is a songwriter and recording artist from the north of England. He has released 2 albums, Sleepy Bones (2012) and Nucleotides (2016) and 1 album as King of the Sea AYA (2021). He has collaborated over the years with friends Field Music, The Lake Poets, The Futureheads and Richard Dawson. Championed over the years by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson (Glad To Be Gay, 2-4-6-8 Motorway) he has supported an eclectic list of artists over the years including Kaiser Chiefs, Public Service Broadcasting, Country Joe and the Fish, Nadine Shah, Josh T. Pearson, Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap), John Murry and Cate Le Bon. In the Dylan world he’s known for his 2003 extensive interview with Larry Charles, director of Masked and Anonymous, and for the YouTube Channel and SubStack, Peter Stone Brown Archives. |
 | ButterBean is a folk/country/indie duo comprised of Julie Jurgens and Charlie Crane. Both veterans of the Chicago music scene, they’ve performed with a variety of bands on some of Chicago’s best stages. As a duo, they perform an eclectic mix of originals and covers, deploying vocal harmonies and a variety of instruments to build a show that often surprises and never disappoints. Julie also records as a solo artist; in 2020, she released an EP of Dylan covers recorded over lockdown, the appropriately-titled We Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, followed in 2022 by Appointed Tasks, an LP of Julie’s original compositions. |
 | Adam Selzer (MC) is a historian, author, and tour guide in Chicago and New York. His books include HH Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil, Graceland Cemetery, and the upcoming Graveyards of Manhattan: Trinity and St. Paul’s (which kept him in the archives by day while he was in town for the Brooklyn and Beacon shows last year). He has hosted the weekly Mysterious Chicago livestreams since 2004, and is a regular talking head on cable history shows. In addition to emceeing and producing the livestream show, he will perform a short unpublished Dylan “college poem” that is largely unknown, but that he considers “an essential early ribald masterpiece.” He needs a hookup for an Edinburgh Night 2 ticket. |
WRITERS AND CRITICS: Some great writers, podcasters, and critics from Dylan fandom will respond to short, fun prompts between songs.
| Rob Kelly | Rob Kelly Host of Pod Dylan |
| Henry Bernstein | Henry Bernstein Host of Songs of Experience |
| Erin Callahan | Erin Callahan Host of Infinity Goes Up on Trial |
| Anne Margaret Daniel | author, seen in Mixing Up the Medicine et al |
| Jim Salvucci | The Dylantantes |
| Christopher Vanni | Author, Why Bob Dylan Matters To Me Substack |