From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000492963
As expected, Simon & Garfunkel will return to the U.S. concert circuit this summer. The reunited duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel has confirmed 19 shows, kicking off June 10 in Albany, N.Y., that will make up the second leg of its Old Friends tour.
Tickets for shows in Albany and Buffalo, N.Y., Uncasville, Conn., and Las Vegas will go on sale Saturday (April 24); Los Angeles and Philadelphia shows will go on sale Monday; and a Cincinnati show is scheduled to go on sale May 1.
Simon & Garfunkel's official Web site suggests pre-sale opportunities will be available for all of the shows on the tour, but details were not available at deadline.
As was the case with the first leg, the Everly Brothers will make a special guest appearance during the summer concerts. The 2003 shows found the Everlys turning out a nightly performance of "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have To Do Is Dream" and "Let It Be Me," and being joined by Simon & Garfunkel on "Bye Bye Love."
Fans hoping to catch Simon & Garfunkel in their town a second time will most likely be disappointed with this round of dates. "They will play almost exclusively in markets where we have not gone," Garfunkel's manager, John Scher, told Billboard.Biz in January. At that time, Scher said a European tour is likely to follow the U.S. outing, and noted a Japanese tour was a possibility.
The 2003 Simon & Garfunkel outing grossed more than $55 million and played to 500,000 people across 32 concerts, according to Billboard Boxscores. It was the pair's first major tour since 1983.
Here are Simon & Garfunkel's confirmed tour dates:
June 10: Albany, N.Y. (Pepsi Arena)
June 11: Uncasville, Conn. (Mohegan Sun Arena)
June 12: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center)
June 16: Pittsburgh (Mellon Arena)
June 17: Buffalo, N.Y. (HSBC Arena)
June 19: Grand Rapids, Mich. (Van Andel)
June 20: Cincinnati (U.S. Bank Arena)
June 22: Nashville (Gaylord Entertainment Center)
June 23: Indianapolis (Conseco Fieldhouse)
June 25: Milwaukee (Bradley Center)
June 26: St. Louis (Savvis Center)
June 27: Kansas City, Kan. (Kemper Arena)
June 29: Salt Lake City (TBD)
July 1: Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl)
July 2: Fresno, Calif. (Save Mart Center)
July 3: Las Vegas (MGM Grand Arena)
July 6: Dallas (American Airlines Center)
July 7: Houston (Toyota Center)
July 8: New Orleans (New Orleans Arena)
-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.
Simon & Garfunkel Confirm Summer Dates
Moderator: SMLCHNG
Last Tour for Simon and Garfunkel?
From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000526586
On Thursday (June 10), Simon & Garfunkel will kick off the second leg of their Old Friends tour in Albany, N.Y. But according to Paul Simon, this may be the final opportunity for fans to see the famed duo.
"If it was an ongoing act where there was new material being recorded and you were working that into the repertoire, maybe there would be some justification," he said. "But I think this is a good example of the music that we made and I don't really see any powerful reason to do it again, because we did it. It's not a Sherman-esque declaration. It's just how I feel."
The boyhood chums have been famously estranged for years, the classic example of a duo that made sweet music onstage and hit sour notes when the lights went down. Now, however, "my friendship with Artie is back to where it was when we were 12 years old," Simon said. "We're laughing and kidding around all the time. It's a lot of fun." Garfunkel agreed: "We are remarkably like brothers in our musical calling and our senses of humor."
They may be friends again, but that doesn't mean they always see eye to eye. In the course of two interviews, they disagreed on whether Simon & Garfunkel has a recording future, a touring future beyond this summer and whether a change in their show for Europe was politically motivated.
Last fall, during the song "America," a video montage ran on screens behind the two singers, showing images of the nation during the past 40 years. That will be either changed or eliminated when the tour moves to Europe July 14 in Manchester, England.
"It's what an artist does when he feels the name of his country speaks too loudly and too provocatively [that] it pushes the music aside," Garfunkel said, somewhat cryptically. He wouldn't comment further. Simon said it will be altered to be more appropriate to Europeans. "It's not a political statement," he said. "It's a geographic reality."
Seeing the duo isn't a cheap date, with the average ticket price for an S&G show last fall selling for more than $135. "It's a hard subject," Garfunkel said. "It puts me on the defensive. I didn't make the ticket price. I'm involved in it, my profit is related to it. Am I squeezing the American people? Well, if they show up and say we're happy to buy your ticket and come see the show, who am I to say you shouldn't be happy?"
Garfunkel said he's had great fun with the reunion, which he called "an open-ended experience." The idea of new recordings from Simon & Garfunkel is "a very interesting and feasible possibility," he said.
That may be wishful thinking. Although they're preparing a CD and DVD recording of their fall shows at New York's Madison Square Garden, Simon doesn't expect any new music from the duo.
"I think we're about what we were," not what we could be in the future, he said. In the meantime, Simon is halfway through a new solo album, an intriguing partnership with producer Brian Eno. As previously reported, the artist's solo albums will be released in a nine-disc boxed set on June 29 by Warner Bros., and individually in two batches on July 13 and July 27.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000526586
On Thursday (June 10), Simon & Garfunkel will kick off the second leg of their Old Friends tour in Albany, N.Y. But according to Paul Simon, this may be the final opportunity for fans to see the famed duo.
"If it was an ongoing act where there was new material being recorded and you were working that into the repertoire, maybe there would be some justification," he said. "But I think this is a good example of the music that we made and I don't really see any powerful reason to do it again, because we did it. It's not a Sherman-esque declaration. It's just how I feel."
The boyhood chums have been famously estranged for years, the classic example of a duo that made sweet music onstage and hit sour notes when the lights went down. Now, however, "my friendship with Artie is back to where it was when we were 12 years old," Simon said. "We're laughing and kidding around all the time. It's a lot of fun." Garfunkel agreed: "We are remarkably like brothers in our musical calling and our senses of humor."
They may be friends again, but that doesn't mean they always see eye to eye. In the course of two interviews, they disagreed on whether Simon & Garfunkel has a recording future, a touring future beyond this summer and whether a change in their show for Europe was politically motivated.
Last fall, during the song "America," a video montage ran on screens behind the two singers, showing images of the nation during the past 40 years. That will be either changed or eliminated when the tour moves to Europe July 14 in Manchester, England.
"It's what an artist does when he feels the name of his country speaks too loudly and too provocatively [that] it pushes the music aside," Garfunkel said, somewhat cryptically. He wouldn't comment further. Simon said it will be altered to be more appropriate to Europeans. "It's not a political statement," he said. "It's a geographic reality."
Seeing the duo isn't a cheap date, with the average ticket price for an S&G show last fall selling for more than $135. "It's a hard subject," Garfunkel said. "It puts me on the defensive. I didn't make the ticket price. I'm involved in it, my profit is related to it. Am I squeezing the American people? Well, if they show up and say we're happy to buy your ticket and come see the show, who am I to say you shouldn't be happy?"
Garfunkel said he's had great fun with the reunion, which he called "an open-ended experience." The idea of new recordings from Simon & Garfunkel is "a very interesting and feasible possibility," he said.
That may be wishful thinking. Although they're preparing a CD and DVD recording of their fall shows at New York's Madison Square Garden, Simon doesn't expect any new music from the duo.
"I think we're about what we were," not what we could be in the future, he said. In the meantime, Simon is halfway through a new solo album, an intriguing partnership with producer Brian Eno. As previously reported, the artist's solo albums will be released in a nine-disc boxed set on June 29 by Warner Bros., and individually in two batches on July 13 and July 27.
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You have to admit that the S&G crowd is getting a little long in the tooth. Plus, it doesn't strike me as the kind of music that makes you want to get up and dance in the aisles.phenwayparrothead wrote:saw them at the fleet center, it was awesome, but the crowd was aweful, way to low key, peoplel telling to be quiet and sit down gduring hte show
$135 a ticket for a reunion tour? Only if Lennon comes back from the grave to sing with the Beatles!
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As one of S&G's fans who is definitely long in the tooth, I thought the concert was phenomenal. Yeah, the tickets were overpriced, but most of these reunion tours have been and the two of them sounded great! And while the crowd wasn't rowdy like a Buffett crowd, they were true fans singing along with every song. I loved it!
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wejrsejr wrote:As one of S&G's fans who is definitely long in the tooth, I thought the concert was phenomenal. Yeah, the tickets were overpriced, but most of these reunion tours have been and the two of them sounded great! And while the crowd wasn't rowdy like a Buffett crowd, they were true fans singing along with every song. I loved it!
If you have the chance - go!
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Simon & Garfunkel To Debut New Song on NPR Saturday
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL TO PREMIERE NEW SONG DURING EXCLUSIVE RADIO INTERVIEW WITH NPR'S SCOTT SIMON ON NPR'S WEEKEND EDITION - SATURDAY, JUNE 12
WASHINGTON, DC -- The first new Simon & Garfunkel song to be
broadcast in more than three decades will make its debut this weekend
on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. As part of an exclusive radio
interview with NPR's Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition, Art
Garfunkel will introduce a song by Paul Simon called "Citizen of the
Planet." The musicians, who rarely do interviews together, will
appear on Weekend Edition on June 12 in the only radio interview the
pair is doing to preview their 2004 "Old Friends" tour.
Listeners to Saturday's Weekend Edition interview will also be among
the very first to hear how Simon and Garfunkel have updated some of
their legendary songs, as the interview will feature excerpts from
the forthcoming "Old Friends" tour CD.
An extended version of this interview, along with songs and
photographs, will be at
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1951161
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have won six Grammy awards together: two
in 1968 and three in 1970, winning Record of the Year twice, and also
a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2003. Their "Old Friends"
tour, beginning June 10th in Albany, New York and ending on July 31st
in Rome, Italy, follows their overwhelmingly popular "Old Friends"
2003 tour.
NPR's Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a
well-traveled perspective to his role as host of Weekend Edition
Saturday, which has been called by The Washington Post "probably the
best-written and most entertaining news program on the dial." Simon
has received numerous other awards, including the Alfred I.
DuPoint-Columbia University Award, a Presidential End Hunger Award, a
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and an Emmy.
Visit http://www.npr.org/wheretohear to find local station listings
and times for Weekend Edition Saturday, which airs on more than 580
public radio stations nationwide.
WASHINGTON, DC -- The first new Simon & Garfunkel song to be
broadcast in more than three decades will make its debut this weekend
on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. As part of an exclusive radio
interview with NPR's Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition, Art
Garfunkel will introduce a song by Paul Simon called "Citizen of the
Planet." The musicians, who rarely do interviews together, will
appear on Weekend Edition on June 12 in the only radio interview the
pair is doing to preview their 2004 "Old Friends" tour.
Listeners to Saturday's Weekend Edition interview will also be among
the very first to hear how Simon and Garfunkel have updated some of
their legendary songs, as the interview will feature excerpts from
the forthcoming "Old Friends" tour CD.
An extended version of this interview, along with songs and
photographs, will be at
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1951161
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have won six Grammy awards together: two
in 1968 and three in 1970, winning Record of the Year twice, and also
a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2003. Their "Old Friends"
tour, beginning June 10th in Albany, New York and ending on July 31st
in Rome, Italy, follows their overwhelmingly popular "Old Friends"
2003 tour.
NPR's Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a
well-traveled perspective to his role as host of Weekend Edition
Saturday, which has been called by The Washington Post "probably the
best-written and most entertaining news program on the dial." Simon
has received numerous other awards, including the Alfred I.
DuPoint-Columbia University Award, a Presidential End Hunger Award, a
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and an Emmy.
Visit http://www.npr.org/wheretohear to find local station listings
and times for Weekend Edition Saturday, which airs on more than 580
public radio stations nationwide.
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