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Paul Simon is currently on the road for what he's calling “Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour.” After this, the singer says, he'll still be writing tunes and playing the occasional gig but he's done with country-crossing road shows. Until today, the tour was scheduled to end with two shows at Madison Square Garden on September 20 and 21 (buy tickets) with the final date show set as a TBA.
Well that show has been announced: Paul Simon will wrap it all up at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park on September 22. Simon grew up in the nearby Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood, so it isn't totally unexpected that he'll finish the tour in Queens. And it's not the only stop that nods to his past: He'll also be playing Prudential Center on September 15 in Newark, NJ, where he was born.
The park setting is also fitting considering his ties to another NYC green space: The 1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunion concert—later a live album—brought 500,000 people to Central Park. Flushing Meadows has been proposed as a site for festivals and large shows, but that's been limited to a handful of SummerStage shows and smaller free events. A press release calls this "the first major concert event at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in decades."
Tickets to the final show go on sale Friday, June 29 at 10am (American Express card holders can buy them starting Monday, June 25).
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