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Two more Simon and Garfunkel shows in Australia announced:

18.06 Brisbane, QLD Entertainment Centre
23.06 Sydney, NSW Acer Arena

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Five minutes into an interview with folk legends Simon and Garfunkel, and Paul Simon is already rolling his eyes. The cause? Art Garfunkel, Simon’s childhood friend and longtime musical sparring partner, is explaining why the duo has decided to tour Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 1983.

“I have new things to say,” says Garfunkel.

“And I dread that …” exhales Simon, eyebrows raised.

“Wait until you hear some of my monologues,” adds Garfunkel, looking across at Simon with glee.

Simon looks back at Garfunkel with a look you can only imagine he’s been giving him for over half a century.

“There are several factors,” continues Simon, ignoring the giggling Garfunkel. “One, the clock is seriously ticking, given our ages, so if we’re going to do it, it’s the sooner, the better, I think.”

“Women have their biological clock,” adds Garfunkel, “and we have our mortality clock.”

Simon exhales. Again. Читать далее »

Simon and Garfunkel have announced they will perform a second concert in Auckland as part of their 2009 tour.Tickets for their June 13 show at Auckland’s Vector Arena sold out within minutes last month, and promoters said there was a 50-50 chance of a second show being announced.

The second show for New Zealand will take place at Vector Arena on Sunday 14 June.

Tickets for the second Auckland show go on sale through Ticketmaster at 9am, on Tuesday 19 May.

Image: 77square.com

Art Garfunkel has eased into his late 60s like a philosophical marshmallow, softened around the edges by his family and full of poetic musing.

Best known as the golden-voiced partner of Paul Simon, Garfunkel has enjoyed a long singing career, supplemented by ventures into acting, poetry and cross-continental walking expeditions. His most recent album, “Some Enchanted Evening,” charts his love of old standards — Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Rogers & Hammerstein. He’ll be performing these and other songs during a solo performance at the Overture Center on Thursday, April 9.

Art Garfunkel wasn’t the only one to pick up the phone in his New York City apartment when 77 Square called for an interview on a recent Sunday morning.

At first, we could only hear the shallow breathing of the mysterious eavesdropper. Then he made his presence loudly known.

“Mommy! Mommy, somebody’s on the phone! Mommy! Somebody’s on the phone, mommy! MOMMY!” And then to the caller, in a tiny voice, “Hello?”

“It’s my little 3-year-old,” Garfunkel said with a patient sigh, before heading downstairs to get his son Beau off the phone.

Art Garfunkel: There was a silver lining in that interruption: his adorability. It’s religious, this adoring business. I adore that little guy. At my advanced age, I’m in love with the baby experience. I write poems about him. I just wrote one just yesterday, and it went right through me. Читать далее »

(CNN) - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are getting their group back together this spring for a reunion tour of Asia and Australia, according to a source close to the group.

Reunion plans apparently began after Simon and Garfunkel played three songs together during Simon’s two-night gig at New York’s Beacon Theatre in February.

Tour rehearsals begin in New York in May and the tour will launch in New Zealand around the first week of June, according to the source.

Shows in Australia and possibly Japan will follow, the source said.

Simon’s manager, Jeff Kramer, has asked the group’s musicians to clear their calendars — which means canceling other shows - from late May through June, the source said.

Kramer, in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine after the February show, hinted that a tour was in the works.