Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will make their third and final tour of Japan as Simon & Garfunkel in July, and in the process become the oldest foreign artists to play at Tokyo Dome. The singer-songwriter duo are both 67 years old, and will surpass the record held by Charlie Watts, who performed at Tokyo Dome when he was 65 during a Rolling Stones tour in March 2006.
The pair announced their upcoming world tour in February, when Garfunkel made a surprise appearance at one of Simon’s shows in New York, where they sang a couple of their classic hits together, such as “The Sound of Silence” (originally titled “The Sounds of Silence”) and “The Boxer.”
Simon & Garfunkel will start their Japan tour at Nagoya Dome on July 8 and follow it with shows at Tokyo Dome on July 10 and 11, Kyocera Dome in Osaka on July 13 and finish their tour at Sapporo Dome on July 18.
The concerts will be their first in Japan since 1993 when they played two gigs drawing about 80,000 people in total. Their five concerts this July are expected to attract around 200,000 fans.
Here are the only confirmed 2009 tour dates for Simon & Garfunkel.
Date
City
Venue
13-Jun
Auckland, NZ
Vector Arena
17-Jun
Brisbane, QLD
Entertainment Centre
20-Jun
Sydney, NSW
Acer Arena
21-Jun
Sydney, NSW
Acer Arena
25-Jun
Melbourne, VIC
Rod Laver Arena
26-Jun
Melbourne, VIC
Rod Laver Arena
30-Jun
Adelaide, SA
Entertainment Centre
2-Jul
Perth, WA
Burswood Dome
For all shows, a special Visa Entertainment pre-sale starts at 12 noon local time on Monday 6th April and runs until 5pm Wednesday 8th April; Australian tickets go on sale to the general public via Ticketek on Friday 17th April, with New Zealand tickets on sale the same day through Ticketmaster.
Leading concert promoter Michael Chugg, in association with Radio 2GB and Radio 2CH, proudly stated the beloved duo would be hitting our shores in June. Chugg also said in addition to breaking the 25 year wait, there would be another special aspect to the set of shows.
“We’re the first and only territory in the world that Simon and Garfunkel have confirmed concerts for (in 2009),” he said.
“It’s been 25 years since they’ve been here and I’d put money on the table this will likely be the last time for us with these two legends together.”
“This is probably a twice in a lifetime chance, but the last time you’ll get to take it I’d say.”
(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.
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Paul Simon confirms in a short interview the possibility of a Simon and Garfunkel tour trough Australia, Japan and New Zealand. In this interview he also said he is sure that this will be their last tour. They promised to do Australia and Japan in 2004, but could not get around.
Simon and Garfunkel are planning to tour together for the first time in five years, Art Garfunkel has said.
The singer revealed the plans five days after making a surprise appearance at a Paul Simon concert in New York where the pair performed three songs.
“Our plan to work together is coming together but it doesn’t go through England this time,” he told BBC News.
Garfunkel, 67, would not confirm if the tour would be in the US. The duo last toured together in 2003 and 2004.
Their 2003 concerts marked their first US tour in 20 years.
On Friday night, Simon and Garfunkel performed together to rapturous applause at a concert to mark the reopening the Beacon Theater after refurbishment.
