Paul Simon Adds Dates to 2026 ‘A Quiet Celebration’ Tour

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Paul Simon performing during the 2025 edition of his “A Quiet Celebration” tour.

Paul Simon has announced a North American leg of his 2026 “A Quiet Celebration” tour. The run, announced on February 3, spans just 20 dates in 18 cities and begins June 4 and continues through July 18. It follows a springtime edition in Europe that was announced last December which continues 2025’s surprising return to the stage. Other than an occasional one-off date, the first time in seven years since the singer-songwriting legend’s much-ballyhooed “Homeward Bound – The Final Tour,” which took place in 2018. Simon will again present a performance of his critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated 2023 album Seven Psalms, as well as perform a celebration of his timeless classics. Following pre-sales on Feb. 4-5, tickets will be available on February 6 at 10 a.m. local time here.

The band will include: Caleb Burhans (viola), Jamey Haddad (percussion), Gyan Riley (guitar), Mick Rossi (piano, keys), Andy Snitzer (saxophone), Nancy Stagnita (flute), Mark Stewart (guitar), Eugene Friesen (cello), Bakithi Kumalo (bass), and Steve Gadd (drums).

Watch Simon perform “Under African Skies” with his wife Edie Brickell during the 2025 tour

It was during the recording of Seven Psalms, as revealed in the acclaimed In Restless Dreams documentary, that Simon began to steadily lose the hearing in his left ear which initially made extended live performances impossible. Together with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, and his own production team, Simon redesigned his entire stage set up to make performing viable.

Inspired to perform again, Simon began work rehearsing and figuring out how he could bring Seven Psalms to the stage along with new arrangements of familiar favorites. He was eager to expand the experience into the live forum by performing this intricately layered work in intimate rooms with pristine acoustics.

Of that previous “farewell” tour in 2018, Simon said, “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. Now I know: it feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating and something of a relief. I love making music, my voice is still strong, and my band is a tight, extraordinary group of gifted musicians. I think about music constantly. I am very grateful for a fulfilling career and, of course, most of all to the audiences who heard something in my music that touched their hearts.”

Simon turned 84 on October 13, 2025. He performed “Homeward Bound” on the SNL50 Anniversary Special on February 16, 2025.

Paul Simon “A Quiet Celebration” 2026 Tour (Tickets are available here and here)
Apr 9-10-12 – Prague, Czech Republic – Congress Center
Apr 15-16 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Eats Music Hall
Apr 18-19 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Falconer Centre
Apr 22-24-25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live
Apr 27-28-30 – Brussels, Belgium – BOZAR
May 3-4 – Paris, France – Grand Rex
May 07 – Liverpool, UK – M&S Bank Arena
May 9-10 – Glasgow, UK – Armadillo
May 13-14-17-18 – London, UK – Palladium
May 20 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena

Jun 04 – Palo Alto, CA – Frost Amphitheater
Jun 07 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
Jun 09 – San Diego, CA – Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Jun 12-13 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Jun 16 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
Jun 18 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion
Jun 20 – Rochester Hills, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
Jun 23 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
Jun 25 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre
Jun 27 – Lenox, MA – Tanglewood
Jun 30 – Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion
Jul 03 – Bethel Woods, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Jul 05 – Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center
Jul 08 – Forest Hills, NY – Tennis Stadium
Jul 11 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
Jul 13 – Atlanta, GA – Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park
Jul 15 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheatre
Jul 17-18 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia

Simon is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, both as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist. He was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2002.

Simon has achieved 29 Top 40 singles in the U.S., with 14 of those reaching the Top 10 or higher, including “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (which reached #1), “Kodachrome,” “Loves Me Like A Rock,” “Mother and Child Reunion,” “Late In the Evening,” “You Can Call Me Al” and many others. With Simon & Garfunkel, he wrote and performed the #1 singles, “The Sound of Silence,” “Mrs. Robinson,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and numerous other timeless hits. Seven Psalms, and other Simon recordings, are available in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.