Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan are coming back to Camden this summer
Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee, and Madeline Edwards are also on the Philly-area date of the Outlaw Music Festival tour, which will also make a summer stop in Hershey.

Willie and Bob are coming back to Camden.
A year after Willie Nelson brought his 4th of July Picnic to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion with Bob Dylan among his opening acts, the two elder statesmen of American song are returning to the Jersey side of the Delaware this summer.
Nelson and Dylan are going on the road again with the Outlaw Music Festival Tour, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is playing the waterfront amphitheater across the river from Philadelphia on Sept. 12.
The two venerated songwriters — aged 91 and 83 — will be joined by three women. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-guitarist Sheryl Crow; Waxahatchee, the acclaimed formerly Philadelphian singer Katie Crutchfield who’s on tour for last year’s terrific Tiger’s Blood; and country singer Madeline Edwards, who scored a hit with “Mama, Dolly, Jesus,” on her 2022 debut Crashlanded.
Last year’s Nelson performance in Camden was full of drama. The nonagenarian Red Headed Stranger had missed his previous two weeks of tour dates because of illness, but returned to the stage on Independence Day.
In November, the remarkably enduring Nelson released his 76th album, Last Leaf on the Tree, which was produced by his son Micah Nelson.
In a statement about this year’s concert trek, Nelson said: “What an amazing lineup to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Outlaw Music Festival Tour. I can’t wait to join friends and family in bringing this celebration to the fans we love.”
Dylan will return to Camden with a larger and presumably younger fan base, thanks to Timothée Chalamet, the actor and fanboy, 50 plus years his junior, who portrays him in the Oscar-nominated movie A Complete Unknown and performed three Dylan deep cuts on Saturday Night Live last month.
With a new generation of fans paying attention, there’s no telling what mind-messing surprises Dylan might have up his sleeve this tour. Good luck, newbies!
Dylan is on board with Nelson for the entirety of this year’s Outlaw tour, which kicks off May 13 in Arizona and runs through September and ends Sept. 19 in Wisconsin.
The support acts for the two headliners vary through different stretches and include a who’s who of Americana and Dad Rock acts, including Billy Strings, Sierra Hull, Charles Wesley Godwin, and country newcomer Willow Avalon, who put on an eye-opening show at the Foundry at the Fillmore Philly last week.
For one run of dates through New England and upstate New York in August, Wilco and Lucinda Williams join the Outlaw tour. For the Hershey Park Stadium show in Hershey on Aug. 9, the three openers are Turnpike Troubadours, Red Clay Strays, and Waylon Payne.
More tour information can be found at blackbirdpresents.com.
A Citibank presale for the Camden show and the entire tour begins at 10 a.m. Thursday and lasts for 12 hours at citientertainment.com. Tickets then go on sale to the general public at outlawmusicfestival.com and ticketmaster.com at 10 a.m. Friday.