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ACL: Bob Dylan fan club
By 7 p.m. Saturday night, the line for Bob Dylan’s performance that evening stretched around the block all the way to Interstate 35. Most people arrived in the few preceding hours, but two fans had been hanging out in front of the popular outdoor venue since 4:30 that morning.
Kait Runevitch and Caroline Schwarz are co-directors of the Bob Dylan Fan Club (www.thebobdylanfanclub.com). “Bob asked us to start it about two years ago,” Runevitch said. “We met him after a gig and he said, ‘I love seeing you girls out there at every show,’ and said he needed a fan club.”
At 25, the Humbolt County resident says she’s a veteran of about 275 Dylan shows, starting in 1997. She and Schwarz came to ACL for Dylan, but picked up three days passes anyway, checking out Asleep at the Wheel, the Rev. Horton Heat and Mofro on Friday.
The two said they slept in sleeping bags on the street most of the early morning, heading back to the hotel for breakfast. “Most people thought we were homeless,” Schwarz said. (This seemed odd, given their clothes and hair, but they said they changed into summer dresses a few hours before the show.) Both said the Stubb’s staff was very pleasant, letting them use the bathroom whenever they needed.
Runevitch and Schwarz planned to take in the Sunday show before heading back to California for work on Monday and rejoining the tour later in the fall.
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