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Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast\u2019s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison\u2019s 2016 supreme deep cut \u201cGoing Down to Bangor,\u201d<\/a> Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history \u2014 about 180 years to be exact \u2014 and broke out the traditional folk ballad \u201cThe Lakes of Pontchartrain\u201d at INEC Arena, in Killarney, Ireland.<\/p>\n Unlike \u201cGoing Down to Bangor,\u201d Dylan has actually played \u201cThe Lakes of Pontchartrain\u201d at prior gigs, but the last one took place 34 years ago. He debuted it June 7, 1988, when the Never Ending Tour kicked off in Concord, California. The last time he performed it was on July 6, 1991, at Holman Stadium in Nashua, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Lakes of Pontchartrain\u201d originated in America and directly references New Orleans and the surrounding region. It was resurrected by the Irish folk group Planxty on their 1974 LP Cold Blow and the Rainy Night, turning it into an Irish standard. That\u2019s why Dylan revisited it in Killarney.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Dylan has surprised audiences by covering local favorites. Back in 2023, he had a run where he covered Chuck Berry in St. Louis,<\/a> Muddy Waters in Chicago, <\/a>John Mellencamp in Indianapolis,<\/a> Leonard Cohen in Montreal,<\/a> and many others. He also played so many Grateful Dead covers that year that many fans speculated that he was recording some sort of Dead covers album. If that was the case, it has yet to surface.<\/p>\n Dylan\u2019s tour continues Monday night with a second show in Killarney before wrapping up Tuesday in Dublin. There are no dates officially on the books for next year, but Dylan has already said he\u2019s playing more Rough and Rowdy Ways shows.<\/a> Let\u2019s hope he sticks with these surprising covers. Rough and Rowdy Ways is great, but he\u2019s played many of these songs about 275 times each. The show is a lot more fun when there\u2019s at least one surprise, even if it\u2019s a 2016 Van Morrison tune or a folk ballad from the early 19th century.<\/p>\n We\u2019d wish for him to play actual deep cuts from his own catalog, including the vast majority of the music he recorded between 1967 and 1997, but we know that\u2019s simply not going to happen. There\u2019s a better chance he\u2019ll play Van Morrison\u2019s 2021 song \u201cWhy Are You on Facebook<\/a>\u201d than anything from Street Legal or Empire Burlesque. <\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast\u2019s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison\u2019s 2016 supreme deep cut \u201cGoing Down to Bangor,\u201d Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history \u2014 about 180 years to be exact \u2014 and broke out the traditional folk ballad \u201cThe Lakes of Pontchartrain\u201d at INEC Arena, in Killarney, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29332,418695,418694,418693,354235],"class_list":["post-2175698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bob-dylan","tag-folk-ballad","tag-killarney","tag-lakes-of-pontchartrain","tag-van-morrison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hear-Bob-Dylan-Perform-a-Traditional-Folk-Ballad-for-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175702,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175698\/revisions\/2175702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}