{"id":122322,"date":"2026-02-04T05:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122322\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:48:15","slug":"paul-simon-announces-summer-north-american-tour-forest-hills-stadium-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122322\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon announces summer North American tour (Forest Hills Stadium included)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While he formally retired from touring<\/a> in 2018, Paul Simon continued to play occasional shows after that, and last year<\/a> he announced his first official tour since his retirement, a run of shows in theaters and other more intimate venues. He\u2019s staying on the road in 2026, and returning to larger venues, with a new North American leg of his \u201cA Quiet Celebration\u201d tour. It runs through June and July, starting in Palo Alto, CA on June 4 and wrapping up on July 17 and 18 in Ravinia, IL. See all dates below.<\/p>\n

The NYC show is in Simon\u2019s home borough of Queens at Forest Hills Stadium on July 8<\/a>, and there\u2019s a Bethel, NY show at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on July 3<\/a>. Tickets to those and all dates go on sale Friday, February 6 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Thursday, February 5 at 10 AM local.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/p>\n

PAUL SIMON: 2026 TOUR DATES
April 09 Prague Congress Centre
April 10 Prague Congress Centre
April 12 Prague Congress Centre
April 15 Berlin Uber Eats Music Hall
April 16 Berlin Uber Eats Music Hall
April 18 Copenhagen Falconer Centre
April 19 Copenhagen Falconer Centre
April 22 Amsterdam AFAS Live
April 24 Amsterdam AFAS Live
April 25 Amsterdam AFAS Live
April 27 Brussels BOZAR
April 28 Brussels BOZAR
April 30 Brussels BOZAR
May 03 Paris Grand Rex
May 04 Paris Grand Rex
May 07 Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
May 09 Glasgow Armadillo
May 10 Glasgow Armadillo
May 13 London Royal Albert Hall
May 14 London Royal Albert Hall
May 17 London Palladium
May 18 London Palladium
May 20 Dublin 3Arena
June 04 Palo Alto, CA Frost Amphitheater
June 07 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
June 09 San Diego, CA Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
June 12 Morrison CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 13 Morrison CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 16 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
June 18 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion
June 20 Rochester Mills, MI Meadow Brook Amphitheater
June 23 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
June 25 Toronto, CA RBC Amphitheater
June 27 Lenox, MA Tanglewood
June 30 Gilford, NH BankNH Pavilion
July 03 Bethel Woods, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
July 05 Philadelphia, PAThe Mann Center
July 08 Queens, NY Forest Hills Stadium
July 11 Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
July 13 Atlanta GASynovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park
July 15 Franklin, TN FirstBank Amphitheatre
July 17 Highland Park, IL Ravinia
July 18 Highland Park, IL Ravinia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While he formally retired from touring in 2018, Paul Simon continued to play occasional shows after that, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[26150,9,24,63,35431,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-122322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-bvhome","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-paul-simon","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}