WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: American singer-songwriter Paul Simon performs as U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko Kishida in the East Room of the White House on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden welcomed Kishida for an official state visit where the two leaders announced new agreements on technology and strengthening military and economic partnerships against Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
There are reasons for Paul Simon not to be on tour at this moment. There’s his advanced age; he turns 84 in October. There’s the hearing loss that he’s currently suffering. There’s the fact that he finished a farewell tour in 2018. Nevertheless, Simon is back out on the road now, playing a series of acoustic shows in relatively intimate venues, with his wife Edie Brickell as part of his backup band. As you might imagine, tickets for those shows are not cheap. If you can get in the door for anything less than $300, then you got lucky. But if you do manage to make it to one of those shows and request a song, Simon will do it for cheap.
