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For an artist who completed his farewell tour less than a year ago, Paul Simon has been very active in the concert circuit over the past two weeks. He not only played a surprise "pop-up" show in Oakland, Fox Theater, California on August 9, before heading up to Outside Lands two nights later. Then on August 13 and 14, he went to Hawaii for two concerts at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. The second show featured a duet with Michael McDonald on Cecilia's classic "The Movie of Simon & Garfunkel".
That's about eight hours of Paul Simon's live music over a five-day period. It may sound like a Kiss or Ozzy Osbourne by shamelessly continuing to shoot right after a farewell tour, but these were all charity gigs for various environmental organizations. He did not win any money from any of them, not even the big headline that goes on the outside; Before announcing Homeward Bound's farewell tour in 2018, he said he would continue to play occasionally on a charity show.
Simon's four concerts this month were quite similar to his 2018 Homeward Bound concerts, mixing classic hits like "You Can Call Me Al" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" with deep cuts like "Spirit Voices" , "The Cool, Cool River" and "Dazzling Blue". He was accompanied by Bob Weir for "The Boxer" at Outside Lands, which marked the first time that they were playing together, even though they had been friends since 1967. In Hawaii, the slack-key The Great Guitarist Keola Beamer joined him on his own compositions "Seabreeze" and "Honolulu City Lights".
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