{"id":10458,"date":"2026-04-23T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/justin-vernon-bon-dylan-eaux-claires\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:00","slug":"justin-vernon-bon-dylan-eaux-claires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/justin-vernon-bon-dylan-eaux-claires\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Vernon Details His Bob Dylan Cover Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/Bon-Dylan-Photo-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Justin Vernon (photo: Eaux Claires)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year when he announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/02\/eaux-claires-lineup\/\">return of his Eaux Claires festival<\/a> in Wisconsin, Justin Vernon also revealed that he\u2019d participate in the event not as Bon Iver but as someone, or something, dubbed Bon Dylan. Now, he\u2019s finally offering a clearer picture of what that actually means \u2014 and it\u2019s not Bon Iver as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Vernon will take the stage over the July 24-25 weekend as a kind of full-tilt avatar of Bob Dylan, channeling the songwriter circa 1994 while performing material from across his catalog. The one-off performance will also mark Vernon\u2019s only live appearance of 2026; Bon Iver had not toured since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/geese-fall-tour\/\">Geese Fall Tour Includes Band\u2019s Largest NYC Show<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/quicksand-new-album\/\">Quicksand Strikes Back With \u2018Bring On The Psychics\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/wednesdays-karly-hartzman-on-writing-through-pain-if-you-can-describe-the-feeling-then-youre-seeing-it-from-a-distance\/\">Wednesday\u2019s Karly Hartzman on Writing Through Pain: \u201cIf You Can Describe The Feeling, Then You\u2019re Seeing It From A Distance\u201d<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t felt much like being what I\u2019ve been,\u201d Vernon says in a newly released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXemj6VAL3u\/\" target=\"_blank\">teaser video<\/a>, which doubles as the first real glimpse into the project. Soundtracked by a skeletal take on \u201cNot Dark Yet\u201d recorded during early rehearsals last month, the clip frames Bon Dylan as one part novelty, one part creative reset. \u201cSo I thought it\u2019d be cool to try to be Bob Dylan for a night. I\u2019m trying to turn Bon into Bob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea traces back to a Dylan show in Eau Claire last year, where Vernon attended with his dad and \u201c16 friends\u201d and says inspired Eaux Claires\u2019 revival thanks to the feeling of community in the room. When it came time to decide whether Bon Iver would return as a headliner, Vernon opted for transformation over repetition.<\/p>\n<p>Bon Dylan\u2019s backing band features a rotating cast of close collaborators, including Sean Carey, Phil Cook, JT Bates, JP Brooks, Camaja Byrd, Sean Carey, Ben Lester, Michael Lewis, Katira Lutterman, John Pieter, Courtland Pickens and Jeremy Ylvisaker. The musicians will be joined by as-yet-unannounced guest singers.<\/p>\n<p>It also lines up with Vernon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2025\/04\/justin-vernon-todd-snyder-conversation\/\">recent stance on touring<\/a>. As he\u2019s suggested in past conversations, the Bon Iver frontman has grown uneasy with the expectations tied to his own catalog. Bon Dylan offers something of an escape hatch: a way to perform without revisiting the same emotional terrain, and to engage with an entirely different songwriting language.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon has also looked back through his concert vault for the first release in a long-percolating new archival series,\u00a0<em>VOLUMES<\/em>, which came out April 3. The debut installment, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bon-iver.lnk.to\/volumes-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VOLUMES: ONE \u201cSELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND\u201d<\/a><\/em>, rounds up nine performances from the group\u2019s last four years\u2019 worth of touring before the break, plus \u2014 despite the album title \u2014 a solitary track from 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Vernon (photo: Eaux Claires) Earlier this year when he announced the return of his Eaux Claires festival in Wisconsin, Justin Vernon also revealed that he\u2019d participate in the event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,2111,2112,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-dylan","category-bon-iver","category-justin-vernon","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}