The poetic chameleon of American culture is teaming up with the twang-torching red-headed stranger, the duo fronting a night of unique musical performances in the Sacramento Valley.

The action happens on Sunday, May 18, when Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson bring their Outlaw Music Festival to the Toyota Ampitheater in Wheatland. It’s a chance to see two living legends of the road hosting a mobile gala of mostly young and up-and-coming talent.

Though he’s virtually never stopped touring in the last 25 years, Bob Dylan has experienced a resurgence in the zeitgeist since December when James Mangold’s anticipated biopic A Complete Unknown hit theaters across the U.S. The film, which starred Timothée Chalamet, grossed $139.4 million worldwide, was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and introduced a younger generation to the willful whiplash that Dylan brought to popular music between 1961 and 1965. Audiences reviews have been high for this tale of a young nomad invigorating the folk genre with songs that captured the national mood, only to turn his back on the whole endeavor by going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. The story remains one of the few examples of renegade artistic convictions triumphing over guaranteed profits and stay-the-course conventions.

In the last five decades, Dylan’s songwriting has gone on to explore multiple doorways through music traditions and the American song book. The Blues, Country and Roots-Americana genres are all flavors that have enlivened his late original works.

Willie Nelson, on the other hand, has his own long history of bucking the system. Throughout the 1960s, Nelson was one of the most-accomplished songwriters in Nashville. Yet by 1972, he was distrustful of how predictably commercial the Nashville sound was becoming – not to mention how boring and morally censorious it was. Nelson left Tennessee and moved to back to his home state of Texas, kicking out the kind of deep, spirited music he genuinely felt in his soul. That included helping invent the raucous Outlaw Country genre, which honored Country music’s more subversive side and propelled the careers of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and David Allan Coe. In 1993, Willie Nelson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Nelson has also been a consistent and powerful public advocate for the de-criminalization of marijuana.

Dylan and Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival coming to the Sacramento area will include performances by the blistering Blue Grass sensation Billy Strings, mistress of melodic mandolin music, Sierra Hull, and Maui’s own stelar, eye-opening vocalist Lily Meola.

Tickets for the show can be purchased here, with the music starting at 4 p.m.