Paul Simon announces 2025 North American tour, seven years after retirement

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Paul Simon has announced an extensive 2025 North American tour, seven years after he retired from playing live.The legendary singer-songwriter will play a long string of dates across the continent, kicking off in New Orleans’ Saenger Theater on April 4.

Runs of five shows in New York’s Beacon Theater and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall are included in the run, which finally concludes in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall on August 3.Tickets for the ‘A Quiet Celebration’ tour go on sale at 10am local time on Thursday (February 20), and you will be able to get yours here.Tickets for sale on Friday at https://t.co/kdNRIh23Vr pic.twitter.com/XhJdGwky37— Paul Simon (@PaulSimonMusic) February 18, 2025Simon played what at the time was described as his final ever concert in September 2018 in Queens, New York’s Flushing Meadows Corona Park. “I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a natural end,” he said at the time. “Now I know: it feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating and something of a relief.”Last year, Simon opened up about being diagnosed with hearing loss while recording his 2023 album ‘Seven Psalms’, describing the process as “incredibly frustrating”.In 2023, he told The Timesthat he lost “most of the hearing in my left ear”, saying the process happened “quite suddenly”.