1965 Simon & Garfunkel at The Red Rooster

With thanks to Joe McMichael we were happy to get the info in 2013 that Simon & Garfunkel appeared in Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania.

The Red Rooster had just opened a couple of days earlier before the Simon & Garfunkel concert took place on December 26th.

And today JMPaull commented: We were visiting my family in Latrobe, PA, and my older cousin took me to the Simon & Garfunkel concert at the Red Rooster. It had just turned 14, and it was my first “live” concert. I had no idea who they were, or what was going on, but I do remember thinking that “The Sounds of Silence” sounded pretty cool.

It was Michael Bender who brought Simon & Garfunkel to recently opened Red Rooster, late 1965. In an article of 2017. when Bender had passed away recently, his friend Greg Flave mentions the fact and states that it was probably the most famous band he had booked. As we can see there were more bands of fame being booked like The Cooasters, The Isley Brothers and singer Lou Christy.

Source: Johnstown Tribune Democrat Apr. 05, 2017, p18

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