 Legendary recording and performing artists Simon & Garfunkel will embark on their
first concert tour in 20 years. Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour will visit arenas in approximately
30 cities across North America, concluding in mid-December 2003.
Having created one of music's most distinctive, acclaimed and enduringly popular
bodies of work, Simon & Garfunkel can draw from a repertoire that includes "The Sound Of Silence,"
"Mrs. Robinson," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Homeward Bound," "Scarborough Fair," "A Hazy Shade
Of Winter," "The Boxer," "America," "I Am A Rock," "Cecilia," "El Condor Pasa" and "My Little Town."
to name only a few.
Simon & Garfunkel will perform each evening both acoustically and with a full band,
fully showcasing the broad scope of their music, which has long been an essential part of the American
cultural landscape.
The foundation for Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour was set with an appearance Simon
& Garfunkel made in February at the 2003 Grammy Awards in conjunction with them receiving the Lifetime
Achievement Award. Performing together for the first time in nearly 10 years, the duo opened the telecast
with an acoustic performance of "The Sound Of Silence" that held the attending audience spellbound and
captivated more than 100-million television viewers around the world.
It was during the weeks of preparations and rehearsals for their Grammy Awards
performance that the duo reconnected on a musical level and reinforced their decades-long friendship.
Finding their renewed collaboration artistically fulfilling and greatly enjoying their time together,
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were reminded of just how deeply they are bonded by their shared musical
and personal journey. Not long after that Grammy Awards period and the historic performance that resonated
so strongly with the public, plans for an extensive concert tour began in earnest.
There is no doubt that Simon & Garfunkel represent one of the central musical duos
of the late 1960's and helped to fashion the outlooks and attitudes of the era as much as Bob Dylan,
the Beatles, and many others. Having released five albums between 1965 and 1970, Simon & Garfunkel
participated in many of the key events of the era: the expansion of interest in folk and its social
themes, criticisms of the Vietnam War, and creating the soundtrack of 1967's The Graduate---a movie
which is acknowledged as having profound effects upon the culture.
Their hits include "Sounds of Silence," "Homeward Bound," "I Am a Rock," "A Hazy
Shade of Winter," "Mrs. Robinson," "The Boxer," "Cecilia," "El Condor Pasa," "Bridge Over Troubled
Waters," "The Boxer" and "My Little Town."
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