Gigs/Lectures/Talks by Michael Gray
from the 1970s until now:
(for upcoming events see the Live Appearances page)
1970s
date unknown University of York, England
date unknown University of Exeter, England
January 07, 1973 Birmingham Arts Centre
November 02, 1974 Malvern Hills College, Worcestershire, England
October 07, 1976 Workers Educational Association, Worcester, England
1981
September Newry Arts Centre, Northern Ireland
September New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
1995
early June Bob Dylan Convention, Castle Plankenstein, Austria
1999
May 01 Robert Shelton Memorial Conference, Liverpool University, UK
December 06 Song & Dance Man III book launch: London, England
December 07 Helter Skelter Bookshop, London WC2, England
December 08 Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, England
2000
April 29 Bob Dylan Convention, Castle Plankenstein, Austria
May 05 Birkenhead School, Merseyside, England
May 10 Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, England
May 17 Waterstones, Piccadilly, London W1, England
May 24 Borders Bookshop, York, England
June 03 Leeds City Voice Festival, England
June 17 Arts Centre, Helmsley, NorthYorkshire, England
June 21 Waterstones, Sauchiehall St., Glasgow, Scotland
June22 Waterstones, 13-14 Princes St., Edinburgh, Scotland
September 14 Bradford Central Library, West Yorkshire, England
September 25 Dylan Fans Event, South Parade Pier, Southsea, England
September / October bookshop, Brighton, England
September / October bookshop, Bournemouth, England
October 19 Nottingham Central Library, England
October / November Dylan Thomas Celebration, Swansea, South Wales
November 29 Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England
2001
March 11 Bath Literature Festival, Somerset, England
March 15 City Screen, York, England
March 25 Between The Lines Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
April 13 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
April 16 Hibbing Public Library, Hibbing, Minnesota, USA
April 18 Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota, USA
April 19 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
April 24 Memphis State University, Tennessee, USA
April 25 Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
April 26 Daemen College, Amherst, New York, USA
April 27 Burke’s Book Store, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
May 19 Robert Shelton Memorial Conference, Liverpool, England
May 24 Borders Bookshop, York, England
July 23 Ryedale Festival, Malton, North Yorkshire, England
July 25 United Reform Church Seminar, Cambridge, England
2002
April 24 Arts Centre, Colchester, England
June 25 Little Theatre, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, WYorkshire, England
July 03 Norden Farm Arts Centre, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
July 27 Arts Centre, Darlington, North Yorkshire, England
September 05 Tower Arts Centre, Winchester, Hampshire, England
September 13 Tullie House, Carlisle, Cumbria, England
September 16 AK Bell Library, Perth Book Festival, Scotland
September 23 Town Hall, Stornoway, Scotland
September 24 An Tobar Arts Centre, Tobermory, Scotland
September 28 Arts Centre, Southport, Lancashire, England
October 01 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
October 02 Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
October 03 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland
October 04 New Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, Ireland
October 05 Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
October 07 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ireland
October 08 Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
October 09 St. John’s Theatre & Arts Centre, Listowel, Ireland
November 07 Guildhall, Gloucester, England
November 11 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Scotland
November 14 Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
November 15 Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
November 21 Penglais Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
November 23 Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
November 28 Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, Wales
November 29 St. Donat’s Arts Centre, St. Donat’s Castle, Wales
2003
January 10 Guildhall, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
January 29 Oak House Arts Centre, Pocklington, NorthYorkshire, England
January 30 Arts Centre, Swindon, Berkshire, England
Febuary 07 Opera House, Buxton Folk Jazz & Blues Festival, England
April 02 University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England
April 11 Tullie House Arts Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria, England
November 13 Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hull, East Yorkshire, England
November 14 Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Louth, Ireland
2004
February 21 South Street Arts Centre, Reading, England
March 10 Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England
March 19 Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, Scotland
April 14 Citadel Arts Centre, St.Helens, Lancashire, England
April 17 Arts Centre, Haverhill, Suffolk, England
April 23 Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
April 28 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
April 29 Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
May 30 Bob Dylan Convention, Castle Plankenstein, Austria
June 11 Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, England
June 12 Arts Centre, Stamford Guitar Festival, Lincolnshire, England
June 25 Town Hall, Ashbourne Literary Festival, Derbyshire, England
August 20 Town Hall, Falkirk, Scotland
September 11 Falmouth Literature & Arts Festival, Cornwall, England
September 25 Theatre Royal, Winchester, Hampshire, England
October 6 Comberton Leisure Centre, Cambridge, England
October 8 The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, England
October 30 Pelham House, Lewes Live Literature Festival, Sussex, England
November 23 The Hawth Arts Centre, Crawley, Sussex, England
November 24 Dorking Halls, Surrey, England
2005
February 25 Paxton Suite, Buxton Festival of Live Music, Derbyshire, England
March 2 Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, Norfolk, England
2006
May 13 Bob Dylan Symposium, University of Frankfurt, Germany
June 28 Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, England
July 18 Bob Dylan Encycopedia book launch, London Review Bookshop, England
August 30 Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
August 31 Magers-Quinn Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
September 02 Kleinert/James Art Gallery, Woodstock, New York, USA
September 05 The New School, New York City, USA
September 07 University of Texas Music School, Austin, Texas, USA
September 08 Booksmiths Bookstore, San Francisco, California, USA
September 09 Black Oak Books, Berkeley, California, USA
September 10 Powells Bookstore, Portland, Oregon, USA
October 28 Bob Dylan Convention, Northampton, England
2007
March 27 Bob Dylan Symposium, University of Minnesota, USA
May 23 International Music Festival, Bath, Somerset, England
June 9 Arts Centre, St.Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands (UK)
June 30 1st Irish Dylan Festival, Moville, Co. Donegal, Ireland
July 2 Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes launch, 1st Kirkbymoorside Literary Festival, North Yorkshire, England
July 7 Arnolfini, Bristol, Somerset, England
September 13 Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England
September ?? McTier Family Association Meeting, Thomson GA, USA
October 5 Wigtown Book Festival, Scotland
November 4 The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London, England
November 16 Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2008
February 29 Bath Literature Festival, Somerset, England
May 1 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
June 7 Stamford Guitar Festival, Lincolnshire, England
2009
February 19 Colchester Arts Centre, Essex, England
February 20 Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
March 6 Pacific Rd Arts Centre, Birkenhead, Wirral, England
March 25 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
March 31 Daemen College, Amherst, New York, USA
April 2 Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA
April 3 Nyack Village Theatre, Nyack, New York, USA
April 6 Hugh’s Room, Toronto, Canada
April 17 Buxton Opera House, Derbyshire, England
April 23 Herne Bay Little Theatre, Kent, England
April 25 One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine, USA
April 29 Farmingdale State College, Long Island, New York, USA
April 30 Farmingdale State College, Long Island, New York, USA
May 2 Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset, England
May 8 Doncaster Little Theatre, South Yorkshire, England
May 9 The Market Theatre, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
May 10 The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk, England
May 13 Uppingham Theatre, Leicestershire, England
May 15 Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
May 16 Festival of the Spoken Word, Berwick-on-Tweed, England
May 27 Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
May 28 The King’s Head, Galway, Ireland
May 29 Hazlitt Arts Centre, Maidstone, Kent, England
May 30 Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset, England
June 4 Southport Arts Centre, Lancashire, England
June 6 Holmfirth Arts Festival, West Yorkshire, England
September 25 Sedbergh Book Town Book Festival, Cumbria, England
October 8 Farmingdale State College, Long Island, New York, USA
October 9 Decatur CD, Decatur, Georgia USA
October 14 Atlanta-Fulton Central Library, Georgia, USA
October 15 Douglass Theatre, Macon, Georgia, USA
October 19 Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
October 20 McDuffie Museum, Thomson Georgia, USA
October 22 Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
October 23 Averitt Arts Center, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
2010
September 4 Wordplay Festival, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland
September 5 Wordplay Festival, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland
2011
February 17 Liverpool University School of the Arts, England
February 22 West Valley College, Saratoga, California, USA
February 23 University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA
February 24 Stanford University English Dept., Palo Alto, California, USA
March 24 University of Alabama New College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
March 29 Georgia Southern University (Holiday Inn), Statesboro, GA, USA
March 30 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
March 31 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
April 3 Nighthawk Books, Highland Park, New Jersey, USA
April 4 Connecticut College English Dept., New London, Connecticut, USA
April 6 The New School, New York City, USA
April 9 Riverside Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
April 12 Passionfruit Theatre, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
April 13 The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
April 14 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
April 15 The Loft Theatre, The Locke Bar, Limerick, Ireland
April 16 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway, Ireland
April 19 Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
April 20 Cork World Book Festival, Ireland
April 21 Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
May 17 The Salon, Vienna, Austria
May 19 University of Vienna Bob Dylan Conference, Austria
May 24 Seven Ages of Dylan Conference, Bristol, England
May 28 The Collection, Lincoln, England
November 17 Birt Acres Theatre, Bute Building, Cardiff, Wales
November 18 Birt Acres Theatre, Bute Building, Cardiff, Wales
November 18 Birt Acres Theatre, Bute Building, Cardiff, Wales
November 19 Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, Wales
2012
April 12 Sears Recital Hall, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
April 17 WAMFEST, Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, USA
April 19 Kaleidoscope Arts Festival, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA
October 4 Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
October 5 Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
October 6 Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
October 12 The Tolbooth Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland
October 13 Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Scotland
October 13 Paisley Arts Centre, Scotland
October 16 The Guildhall Theatre, Derby, England
October 17 The Met, Bury, England
October 18 Gala Studio, Durham, England
October 19 Queens Hall Theatre, Hexham, England
October 22 University of York, England
October 24 Canterbury Festival, England
October 25 Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury, England
October 26 Bedworth Arts Centre, nr. Coventry & Newbury, England
October 28 FM Lounge, Totnes, Devon, England
2013
May 14 Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany
May 16 Amerikahaus, Munich, Germany
May 17 Salon, Vienna, Austria
June 23 York Festival of Ideas, York, England
September 23 Brookdale College, Lincroft NJ, USA
September 25 Thomas More College, Crestview Hills KY, USA
September 26 Hanover College, Hanover IN, USA
October 1 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro AR, USA
October 3 Harding University, Searcy AR, USA
October 7 Tulane University, New Orleans LA, USA
October 8 Daemen College, Amherst NY, USA
October 25 Salle de Troisieme Age, Sainte Dode, France
November 4 Grantham Guildhall, England
November 6 Riverfront, Newport, South Wales
November 8 Bryanston School, Blandford Forum, England x 2
November 9 Dorchester Arts Centre, England
November 10 Exeter Phoenix, England
November 12 The Cut, Halesworth, England
November 14 Leamington Live Arts & Music Project, England
November 16 Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
November 20 The Met, Bury, England
November 21 Helmsley Arts Centre, England
2015
January 22 University of York PEN Society, England
May 15 Bryanston School, Blandford Forum, England
May 17 Hunter Club, Bury Festival, Bury St. Edmunds, England
September 9 An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
September 11 Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax, England
September 12 Civic Theatre, Barnsley, England
September 13 Artrix Studio, Bromsgrove, England
September 15 Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham, England
September 16 Swindon Arts Centre, England
September 19 The Flavel, Dartmouth, England
September 20 The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, England
September 22 Stamford Arts Centre, England
September 23 Colchester Arts Centre, England
September 24 Norwich Arts Centre, England
September 25 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, England
October 12 Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
October 14 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
October 16 University of Chicago, USA
October 19 Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, USA
October 22 University of Texas at Austin, USA
October 26 Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
October 27 Nebraska State University, Kearney, Nebraska, USA
October 29 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
November 3 Goldsmiths College, University of London, England
November 4 University of Oslo, Norway
2016
April 23 Salon, Vienna, Austria
2017
October 27 Literature House, Trondheim, Norway
October 28 Literature House, Bergen, Norway
2018
October 4 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
October 30 Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport, South Wales
November 1 Queens Hall Art Centre, Hexham, England
November 4 Oran-Mor, Glasgow, Scotland
November 5 OneTouch Theatre, Inverness, Scotland
November 6 Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, England
November 8 Arthur's Jazz & Blues Club, Dublin, Ireland
November 10 Edge Hill University Arts Centre, Ormskirk, England
November 11 The Institute, Laxey, Isle of Man
November 12 Centenary Centre, Peel, Isle of Man
November 14 Goldsmiths College, London, England
2019
March 28 Spring Arts Centre, Havant, England
March 31 Green Note, Camden Town, London, England
July 8 The Troubadour, London, England
2020
March 10 The Troubadour, London, England
2021
August 17 Bleiche Sessions, Wald, Switzerland
August 31 Zurich, Switzerland
September 9 Cathedral Quarter Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
September 14 Oran-Mor Arts Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
2023
May 10 The Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa OK, USA
May 26 All Saints Centre, Lewes, Sussex, England
October 29 Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, England
2024
January 16 Green Note, Camden Town, London, England
February 9 Royal Holloway University of London, England
September 26 The CAT Club, Pontefract, England
September 27 The Customs House, South Shields, England
September 29 The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk, England