Five weeks after turning 85, Bob Dylan plays Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park on a Monday night in late June — and the bill he’s assembled is more interesting than most headliner shows this summer. Lucinda Williams and the John Doe Folk Trio open. The room choice is worth reading: this is the 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater inside Waterloo Park, not Moody Center, the arena that went up after Frank Erwin came down. For Dylan, who launched the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour in 2021 and has spent the years since declining to put an end date on it, the outdoor mid-size room is the frame he keeps coming back to.
About Bob Dylan
Rough and Rowdy Ways — his 39th studio album, released June 19, 2020 — seeded this whole run. The tour was supposed to wrap in 2024. It didn’t. Dylan kept announcing dates, and the 2026 leg now covers 43 confirmed shows from April through August. The Austin date drops deep in that summer stretch, one night before he plays Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels on June 30 — two Texas nights back to back. Anyone who was at his 2024 Austin tour finale, when Jimmie Vaughan walked onstage unannounced to play four songs with him, knows that predictability isn’t really the operating premise here.
Williams isn’t here as filler. She’s a Texas artist and a genuine peer — someone who toured alongside Dylan on Willie Nelson’s 2025 Outlaw Tour. That relationship produced a real booking, not a throwaway slot. The John Doe Folk Trio rounds out the evening.
About the Venue
Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park sits at 1401 Trinity St in central Austin — a 5,000-capacity outdoor venue that books headliners who want the open-air setting without the arena footprint. It’s a different animal from Stubb’s, which is Live Nation-owned and runs a more festival-adjacent schedule on the east side. For a Dylan show in this era, the room reads as a deliberate call.
Tickets & Details
Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster, starting at $93. Doors open at 6:00 PM; the show starts at 7:00 PM. Get tickets here. For more Austin shows, check the local listings.