On July 6th 1967 Simon & Garfunkel were scheduled for a show in Winnipeg. Here’s how the newspaper informed their readers a couple of days before:

And the review in the Winnipeg Free Press of July 8th:

Well it certainly is Canada in the last postings….another new find, with thanks to Joe McMichael:

1966-11-03 Winnipeg, MAN   University of Manitoba

1967-01-30 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Massey Hall

(please see: http://tinyurl.com/8822kdr for more info)

With many thanks to reader Mariana I was able to add a new date to the 1967 listing.

Simon & Garfunkel performed a couple of times in Canada in the ‘early days’. Right from the beginning in 1966 they performed in Winnipeg and even made a TV special of CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company. But this 1967 Toronto is a new one.

Another one could be added to the list, with thanks to eBay!

1968-02-08 Davenport, MI, Davenport College, Civic Auditorium
(do note the wrong spelling of Garfunkel’s name!)

and Joe McMichael found this one:

1968-10-12 Durham, NC,  Duke University

Again with the help of Joe McMichael

1966-10-21 Baltimore John Hopkins University in the Shriver Auditorium

has been added to the list.

The UK Magazine, Record Collector (issue December 2011) has an interview with folksinger Roy Harper. Like Paul Simon he started playing in the folk-club circuit in 1964.

When interviewer Jonathan Wingate asks him ‘Was Paul Simon on the scene at that point?’ he tells the following:

‘Paul got there about six months before me, but over time I got to know him very well. He was exactly the same as he is now…absolutely punctual and completely professional. We got to the stage after a year or two where I got handed down the £25-a-night gigs he didn’t want to do, because by that point he’d moved up to £40.

I can remember going into the gents in The Three Horseshoes in Hempstead during a gig, and we’re having a pee together. He was very excited, and he turns round to me and and says, “Guess what, man? We’re no 16 in Boston with The Sound of Silence”. A few days later I was doing another gig with him and he made a beeline for me. “Guess what?” I sqaid “You’re No. 15 in Boston”. He said, “No man, we’re No. 1 in Boston”. I thought,  “Wow. No. 1 in Boston, eh?” It was almost a joke, because I really had no idea what that sort of stuff meant at all.

With thanks to Joe McMichael, again, some new info can be shared.

1967 – According to the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC “Howler” yearbook, Class of 1968 Simon and Garfunkel appeared on campus for Homecoming Weekend. (Likely in October 1967.)

1968 – Sat 10 February –  Pittsburgh, PA,  Syria Mosque

Further more I have a date in 1968 set for April 8 in 1968, while a more or less local newspaper stated that it would take places on the 13th. It is only a few days later, but still:

Maybe a reader who was there at the University of Oklahoma can tell us more?

And a review of the 1967 Oskosh show:

 

Friday 7 January 1966 Rockford, IL  Sherwood Lodge (A Thumb Productions show with the Shadows of Knight.)

Source: Rockford Register Fri 7 Jan, pB12.

With thanks to Joe McMichael we can add 2 new dates to 1967-listing:

1967-10-20  Berea, OH Baldwin-Wallace College Urspring Auditorium
1967-11-12   New Orleans, LA  Loyola University Field House

and here’s a nice article about them for the upcoming October 26th  1967 show in Oshkosh: