Wyndham Baird

Forever Young: A Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration ft Wyndham Baird, Evangeline Young, Dustin Lowman & Special Guests! Fri May 24th 6PM Show, 5PM Doors Join us on Wednesday, May 24th to celebrate Bob Dylan's 83rd Birthday! In true Cafe Wha? spirit, we have curated some of the finest New York-based artists who have been heavily inspired by Dylan's music. They'll be paying tribute to the legend at the club where it all began for the young Robert Zimmerman back in 1961 - Cafe Wha?. Featuring Wyndham Baird, Evangeline Young, Dustin Lowman and a slew of special guests, this Hootenanny style celebration will take you through Dylan's hits and backpages! “Just got here from the West,” the gangly 19-year-old told Manny Roth, owner of the Greenwich Village nightclub “Cafe Wha?” “Name’s Bob Dylan. I’d like to do a few songs? Can I?” Sure, Mr. Roth said; on “hootenanny” nights, as he called them, anybody could sing a song or two, and this was a hootenanny night, a bitterly cold one, Jan. 24, 1961. And so Mr. Dylan took out his guitar and sang a handful of Woody Guthrie songs. The crowd “flipped” in excitement, Mr. Dylan later said. He had hitchhiked to New York from Minnesota, and after showing up at the Cafe Wha?, he mentioned to Mr. Roth that he had no place to sleep. So Mr. Roth later asked the audience “if anybody has a couch he can crash on” — and somebody did.