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Original program for Bob Dylan's first major concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York on November 4, 1961, four pages, 5.5 x 8.5, depicting the 20-year-old folk singer playing his harmonica on the front cover. Inside is an interesting, unreliable biography of the young artist, in part: "Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941. He was raised in Gallup, N.M., and before he came to New York earlier this year, he lived in Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota and Kansas. He started playing Carnivals at the age of fourteen, accompanying himself on guitar and piano. He picked up the harmonica about two years ago.
The University of Minnesota gave him a scholarship. He went there for some five months, attended some dozen lectures and left. He learned many blues songs from a Chicago street singer named Arvella Gray. He also met a singer, Mance Lipscomb, from the Brazos River country of Texas, through a grandson that sang rock and roll. He listened a lot to Lipscomb. He heard Woody Guthrie's album of Dust Bowl Ballads in South Dakota. In fact, Bob Dylan has sung old jazz songs, sentimental cowboy songs, top forty Hit Parade stuff. He was always interested in singers and didn't know the term 'folk music' until he came to New York." In fine condition, with a light central vertical fold. Promoted and financed by Izzy Young, proprietor of the Folklore Center music store, the show was a financial failure—only 53 people attended.
