{"id":31473,"date":"2025-02-18T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-simon-to-return-to-the-road-with-new-a-quiet-celebration-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:02:42","slug":"paul-simon-to-return-to-the-road-with-new-a-quiet-celebration-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-simon-to-return-to-the-road-with-new-a-quiet-celebration-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon to return to the road with new A Quiet Celebration tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-18\/M_PaulSimonPRRickdiamond_021825.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Photo credit: Rick Diamond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> is headed back out on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer has just announced dates for the A Quiet Celebration tour, marking his first full tour since 2018 and his first tour since releasing his\u00a02023 album <em>Seven Psalms<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new tour will have Simon playing songs from <em>Seven Psalms<\/em>, as well as \u201cnew arrangements of familiar favorites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simon\u00a0will play\u00a0multiple dates in several cities during the trek, kicking off with two nights in New Orleans, April 4 and April 5. The tour will include a five-night stand at the Beacon Theatre in New York starting June 6 and five nights at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, starting July 9.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will wrap with three shows in Seattle: July 31, Aug. 2 and Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of tour dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulsimon.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>paulsimon.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simon announced his intention to\u00a0stop\u00a0touring in 2018, wrapping his so-called final trek\u00a0in Queens, New York, the borough where he grew up.<\/p>\n<p>The recording of\u00a0<em>Seven Psalms<\/em>\u00a0was captured in the documentary <em>In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon<\/em>, where\u00a0Simon revealed that he\u00a0was losing his hearing. In May 2023\u00a0he\u00a0said he&#8217;d lost most of his hearing,\u00a0preventing him from performing again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in\u00a0March 2023\u00a0Simon shared\u00a0that his hearing was getting better and in an October interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/oct\/04\/i-never-said-i-was-going-to-retire-paul-simon-on-disability-drive-and-the-mystery-behind-his-greatest-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>said he was &#8220;optimistic&#8221; about being able to do full-length concerts again.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Rick Diamond Paul Simon is headed back out on the road. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer has just announced dates for the A Quiet Celebration tour, marking his first full tour since 2018 and his first tour since releasing his\u00a02023 album Seven Psalms. The new tour<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-simon-to-return-to-the-road-with-new-a-quiet-celebration-tour\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}