Bob Dylan performed last month in Youngstown, and some of his biggest local fans will play his music Saturday at Westside Bowl to raise money for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.

This is the second year that Richard Blair of Rolling Boxcar International and Demos Papadimas have organized “On a Night Like This: A Tribute to Bob Dylan,” a celebration of his music on his birthday (Dylan will be 84 on Saturday).

This year’s show will have a somewhat different format. Last year RBI and Papadimas fused their bands together and served as the house band for the evening. This time each act will play separately — with Blair sitting in with Papadimas’ band at times and Papadimas joining RBI for a song or two — and Barry Carroll and Nick Adduci each playing short solo acoustic sets.

Several special guests will play with one or both of the bands over the course of the night, including Anthony Lamarca (The War on Drugs, The Building), Chris Rutushin (Radio Lark) and Kari Ann Rutushin (Larry Elefante, Swap Meet).

The format change mainly was a matter of convenience, Blair said. Each band could rehearse on their own schedules rather than trying to pick a time when everyone could be available.

While there will be some repeat songs, the setlist will be significantly different than last year’s show. Deciding who got to perform what was surprisingly easy.

“We talked it out at a table, just generally,” Blair said of his initial conversation with Papadimas. “I said, you start getting your songs together and we’ll get our songs together. I talked with Angelo (Lamarca of RBI) about what he wanted to play, and then I called Demos. He starts listing songs, and I’m not kidding you, we had no crossover. No crossover whatsoever, which I guess, when you have as many songs as Bob Dylan has, it’s not that surprising statistically. But we didn’t have any battles like that, which I was thankful for, because we all have our egos.”

The set will include some of Dylan’s better-known songs as well as some deep cuts. As Blair pointed out — and as anyone who has ever seen Dylan live knows — the singer-songwriter never has been one to play just the hits.

Dylan also doesn’t play the hits the way they were originally recorded. In most cases, the songs heard on Saturday will be more recognizable.

“It will probably be closer to the official recorded output in terms of arrangement,” Blair said. “The biggest thing we might change is the key and our phrasing will be a little bit different, and the instrumentation obviously is going to be different. At least speaking for RBI, it’s going to be a little closer to the originals. Demos really liked to dig into the live recordings. When we played ‘Silvio’ last year, Demos said, ‘Let’s play it more like Bob was playing it 20 years ago live than the recorded version with the (Grateful) Dead.”

Before last year’s event, Blair had been commemorating Dylan’s birthday with solo shows and small performances for years.

He said his fondest memory from last year was, “The fruition of something I’ve been dreaming about for 30 years. I’ve been having Bob Dylan birthday parties for as long as I’ve been listening to him. That it could grow in terms of the scale and the scope of the event, I was proud. And I was proud we were able to help out Second Harvest Food Bank.”

Last year’s event raised about $2,000 for the food bank, which was chosen as the beneficiary because Dylan donates all proceeds from his “Christmas in the Heart” album to different charities focused on food insecurity.

The concert starts at 8 p.m. Saturday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. Admission is $10 at the door.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com