1967-00-00 Selden, NY, Suffolk County Community College
1967-01-13 Binghampton, Bimghampton University, Harpur College
1967-01-14 Utica Memorial Auditorium
1967-01-15 Detroit, MI, University of Detroit, J.L. Hudson Memorial Building
1967-01-22 New York City Lincoln Center / Philharmonic Hall
1967-01-27 Saint John, Canada, Univ of New Brunswick, Barrack Green’s Armories (during Wintercarnival)
1967-01-29 Toronto, Canada, Massey Hall
1967-01-30 Toronto, Canada, Massey Hall (http://tinyurl.com/8822kdr)
- The concert from New York City’s Lincoln Center was released in 2002 by Columbia Legacy (5080679) and is ofcourse a must to have.
The first time we could listen to parts of this concert was on the 1997 3cd-set called ‘Old Friends’. Here is also the the song ‘Red rubber ball’ included, which was omitted from the 2002 release!
1967-02-02 Frederickton, Canada, The Playhouse (2 shows: 7.00pm and 9.15pm)
1967-02-03 Frederickton, Canada, The Playhouse (2 shows: 7.00pm and 9.15pm)
1967-02-04 Wolfville, Canada, University Hall
1967-02-05 Ottawa, Canada, Capitol Theatre
1967-02-10 Chicago, Music Hall
1967-02-11 Cedar Rapids, Coe Auditorium, Coe Winter Carnival (replacing Judy Collins and Josh White ; students thought prices for the S&G concert were high)
1967-02-12(?) (Valentine’s Weekend) Baltimore, Towson University
1967-02-18 Bethlehem, Lehigh University, Grace Hall (with Eric Burdon & The Animals)
1967-02-24 Valparaiso, Valparaiso University
1967-02-25 Des Moines, KRNT Theater
1967-03-11 Boston Tufts University / Cousens Gymnasium
1967-03-12 Burlington VT (Vermont) Memorial Auditorium
1967-03-18 London Royal Albert Hall
1967-03-19 Birmingham Birmingham Theatre
1967-03-20 Manchester Free Trade Hall
1967-03-24 St. Louis, Missouri, Washington University, Fieldhouse
1967-03-35 Washington DC, Constitution Hall
1967-03-31 West Covina Carousel Theatre (1 show: 8:30 pm)
1967-04-01 West Covina Carousel Theatre (2 shows: 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm)
1967-04-02 West Covina Carousel Theatre (2 shows: 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm)
1967-04-08 Sacramento, CA Memorial Auditorium
1967-04-09 Davis, CA, Freeborn Hall
1967-04-10 Bellingam, Sam Garver Gymnasium
1967-04-12 Oklahoma University, Field House
1967-04-14 Boston Back Bay Theatre
1967-04-22 Indianapolis, Clowes Memorial Hall (2 shows: 7:00pm & 9:30pm)
1967-04-23 Fulton, Westminster Auditorium
1967-04-28 University Heights, OH, John Carroll University, Gym
1967-05-04 D’Youville College, MUD Weekend, Buffalo, NY, USA
1967-05-05 Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, Dillon Gym /McCarter Theater
1967-05-06 College Park University of Maryland / Cole Field House (Spring Weekend)
1967 -05-12 Univeristy of New Mexico
1967-05-13 Albuquerque, Johnson Gym
1967-06-16 Monterey Monterey Pop Festival
1967-07-00 Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado
1967-07-03 Lambertville St. John Terell’s Music Circus
1967-07-06 Winnipeg, Auditorium
1967-07-07 Madison, WI, USA, Dane County Coliseum [With The Lovin’ Spoonful on same bill]
1967-07-14 Montreal, QUE Expo ’67 Expo Theatre
1967-07-15 Montreal, QUE Expo ’67 Expo Theatre
1967-07-16 Framingham, MA Carousel Theatre
1967-07-21 Chicago, Civic Opera House
1967-07-22 Chicago, Civic Opera House
1967-07-23 Cleveland, Musicarnaval (first scheduled as 1967-07-30)
1967-07-24 Owings Mills, MD Painters Mill Music Theatre
-> on 1967-07-30 Cleveland, ‘ WHK Musicarnival Swinging SundayEvents at 7′ only a Radio Performance recorded before?
1967-07-28 Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl (with The Lovin´ Spoonful)
1967-07-30 Phoenix, Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum (see above) (with The Lovin’ Spoonful)
1967-08-05 New Haven, Yale Bowl (w/The Lovin´Spoonfull)
1967-08-12 Forest Hills Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
(Source: Billboard Sept 9th 1967)
1967-08-14 Gaithersburg, MD, Shady Grove Music Fair
1967-08-15 Camden, NJ, Camden County Music Fair
1967-09-29 West Lafayette, Purdue University, Hall of Music (2 shows)
1967-09-30 West Lafayette, Purdeu University, Hall of Music (2 shows)
1967-10-01 Detroit, Masonic Auditorium
1967-10-03 Austin, USA, Univ of Texas, Municipal Auditorium
1967-10-06 Syracuse, Onondaga County War Memorial
1967-10-08 Detroit, Masonic Auditorium
1967-10-13 Bronx, Fordham University
1967-10-20 Berea, OH Baldwin-Wallace College Urspring Auditorium
1967-10-21 Ames Iowa State University / The Armory
1967-10-25 New York City, Village Theater (105 Second Avenue)
1967-10-26 Oshkosh, WI, USA, Wisconsin State University / Albee Hall
1967-10-27 Michigan State University, Jennison Fieldhouse
1967-10-28 Champaign, IL, University of Illinois, Assembly Hall
1967-11-03 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. They appeared there on Friday 3 Nov. at 8:15 pm in the Wait Chapel during the Homecoming weekend festivities
1967-11-04 Muncie, Indiana, Ball State University, Emens Auditorium
1967-11-05 Cleveland, Music Hall, Public Auditorium
1967-11-10 Augsburg, Augsburg College
1967-11-12 New Orleans, LA, Loyola University Field House
1967-11-14 Natchitoches, LA Northwestern Louisiana State College Prather Auditorium
1967-11-17 San Jose, Civic Auditorium
1967-11-18 Berkeley, Berkeley Communty Theater
1967-11-22 College Station, Texas A&M University, G. Rollie White Colisseum
1967-11-24 Chicago, IL, Civic Opera House
1967-11-25 Chicago, IL, Civic Opera House
1967-12-03 Amherst, Univ of Mass., Curry Hicks Cage
To be confirmed:
1967/1968 a concert at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) is being prepared
1967-00-00 London (Canada), University of Western Ontario
1967-00-00 Winnipeg, University of Manitoba
1967-10-00 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.)
1967-11-00 New Orleans (on a Sunday)
Paul Simon - 'Time it was...it was' 
I saw Simon and Garfunkel in West Lafayette, IN at Purdue University, (September 1967) when I was a freshman in college. Some 40 years + I still remember that concert. It was wonderful and I had no idea I was watching history in the making. I can still sing all their songs.
So do I ! O so do I And I miss their voices, musics and the most important for me, French Canadian, I could understand the songs because they articulated all the words in their songs !
There’s nothing nicer than people who actually saw a show way back then, who take the time to comment. So thank you for your comment.
My boyfriend saw Simon & Garfunkel at Purdue – It was a Friday Night Variety Show. He was only 9 years old and still remembers it! How Cool!
A few dates for 1967:
14/15 July Montreal, QUE Expo ’67 Expo Theatre
16 July Framingham, MA Carousel Theatre
24 July Owings Mills, MD Painters Mill Music Theatre
24/25 Nov Chicago, IL Civic Opera House
The 8 April show was positively Sacramento CA. Radio station KROY was a big pop music station at that time.
The 10 Nov show was at Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN. It is located downtown in that city.
Hello again,
I found a new date, Sunday 3 Dec 1967 – Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts, Curry Hicks Cage.
Also, there is an undated performance in New Orleans, LA on a Sunday in November.
Hello,
I found confirmation of a date in 1967:
Sunday 12 November New Orleans, LA Loyola University Field House
I attended this one at Loyola field house. It was a strange time to be a college student and have Vietnam war angst on one side and true joy of music on the other. It was my first concert. I just attended my last (so far) it was Paul Simon in Birmingham, Alabama, may 4, 2016. He definitely felt the Alabama love!
Hello, again!
I found a new date in 1967:
Friday 20 Oct Berea, OH Baldwin-Wallace College Urspring Auditorium
Best wishes
Love this site! A friend found this picture (http://tinyurl.com/8822kdr) which suggests they played at Massey Hall in Toronto on 1/30/67. Don’t know if you can find confirmation elsewhere.
thank you! I am very happy with this information. I will check for more informatio and ofcourse update the blog with you info.
Hello,
I’ve just discovered a new date in 1967:
Sun 12 MARCH Burlington VT (Vermont) Memorial Auditorium (press notice – St Albans VT Daily Messenger 3/8/67)
Also of interest, the press notice mentioned that Simon and Garfunkel had played at the Winter Weekend of Johnson State College, Johnson VT. I am researching that date.
I was at Johnson State College in February 1967. I believe they played at our Winter Festival somtime in the middle of Feb. Try 2/ 17-19
That’s correct, tom. I was asked by Coach Guarino to help park cars in the snowstorm that night.
Hello,
I just discovered a new date for 1967:
Sunday 14 Nov Natchitoches, LA Northwestern Louisiana State College Prather Auditorium
Hey Tom… I was there to!! How are you?
Did anyone reading this attend the concert given by the duo at Manchester, England, in 1967?
Unless my long-term memory is playing tricks on me, I very distinctly remember the venue as being the ODEON cinema in the town, not the Free trade Hall as cited in various webpages I’ve visited. On this page, there is even a cut-out classified newspaper advert stating the Free Trade hall as the venue.
I attended the concert myself (very likely to have been the only such one the pair gave in the city that year, in which they performed a ‘preview’ of their upcoming release, “Mrs Robinson”, from the-then as yet unreleased film THE GRADUATE (1967); and, believe me, I’d have bet my life on the gig having taken place on the stage of the Odeon cinema!
If anybody can supply any info on the matter, I’d be grateful.
Thanks for your time!
The advertisements seems to be telling ‘the truth’. But S&G also did a show for Granada TV in May of 1967, could it be that you attended that one?
Apologies for taking so long to return, “roboud56”, and to thank you for your reply!
This is all very strange! I very recently tracked down the long-lost friend with whom I went to see the show all that time ago. Through e-mail communications he affirms that it was indeed the Free Trade Hall (FTH) at which the concert took place! This friend says that back sometime in the mid-80s, an epileptic fit caused him subsequently to shed a goodly few of his minor, inconsequential memories from his past, though the S&G concert wasn’t among then. He did say, however, that we did attend a concert at the Odeon (Manchester) sometime later that same year, but that he couldn’t remember the act(s) on the programme. In this regard, I am sure he is mistaken, as I know that I have never attended any other folk/pop/rock concert in my life – other than the S&G concert in question!
Anyway, deciding that I’d at least check on the FTH venue date (20/03/67), I visited the Reference Library in Manchester, a couple of weeks ago, and sought out the Manchester Evening News file copy for that date. And, yes, it had the venue listed as the FTH! This being proof that I must accept – in as much, anyway, that the duo did perform at the FTH at the date given!
Thinking that they may have made a return visit to the city sometime later that same year, or sometime early the following year, I found myself back on this page to search for any such mention, when I happened on your reply (I hadn’t received any sort of automatic e-mail notice at all of its presence, I’m afraid!)
Re the Granada suggestion… No; I’m even more certain in my mind than I am of the Odeon proposition that it wasn’t at the Granada studios that I saw the pair!
So, unless I’m prepared to sift through a full year’s back copies of the regional press to confirm, or otherwise, the Odeon as being the venue for such a concert – a daunting prospect! – then I shall have to remain perplexed with regard to the whole issue! (And I am still convinced I’m right!!)
Thanks once again for your input.
Sincerest regards!
This is a bit late on, I’m afraid, but you’re right about the duo playing the Manchester Odeon; I was in the audience myself (way up high in the circle, where seats cost seven-and-six!). It was on 3rd March ’68. They actually did hold a concert at the Free Trade Hall in the city city in the same year, either a couple of months before or after the Odeon concert.
I actually wrote a comment on here a few years back, in which I included a Manchester Evening News review of the Odeon concert, along with an add for it from the Classifieds, which I’m trying to locate
Well, it’s been established that I was correct in believing that S & G played the Odeon Theatre/cinema, Manchester, UK. I was, however, incorrect in believing it had been in 1967; in fact it had been on the evening of Friday, Ist March 1968 that it took place. I had all along mistaken the UK release date of the GRADUATE for sometime in 1967, whereas the official UK premiere date was the 8th August 1968, in London.
Needless to say, I’m relieved to learn the facts, as at times I seriously had to consider whether I’d turned a bit loopy, in believing the Odeon proposition! Thanks to the site administrator, however, who dug up the actual Odeon appearance date, I am a greatly relieved hombre! (My thanks to him!)
To anyone interrested in reading a local press review of the night’s performance, I have submitted a press cutting from the Manchester Evening News, along with an announcement from the paper’s ads section for the event, both of which I hope will be uploaded to this page in due time.
Saw the Amherst MA concert at Curry Hicks Cage- UMASS in 1967. The list is a mixed up. Got and still have autographs on piece of lined notebook paper. Was 14 years old and attended with some high school kids who interviewed the duo for the HS paper. Still an awesome memory.
Yes there were two dates mentioned for an Amherst appearance. One in November and the other one in December. Thanks for sharing your memories here!
Yes, one item lists Amherst CT but it’s Amherst MA. Curry Hick Cage still exists as a sports venue at UMass. Not sure what the U in New Orleans is all about. I honestly don’t remember which month it was. Wow, 45 years ago! Enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Thanks.
hi I’ve answered my earlier query re Free Trade Hall gig….was in 1967. Still memorable for me!
I already thought that! Unfortunately I cannot add more, I was not there at that time, onky 11. So I have to rely on yiurs and others memories.
I saw Simon and Garfunkel in May 1967 at the University of Maryland.The opening act was Ian & Sylvia! Those were the days. So much great music at an affordable price 🙂
Paul Simon is one of the greatest poets of our time.
Hello,
I’ve got confirmation of the concert at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. They appeared there on Friday 3 Nov. at 8:15 pm in the Wait Chapel during the Homecoming weekend festivities.
(citation: Wake Forest University “Old Black and Gold”, Mon 30 Oct 1967, p 3.)
Hello,
I’ve got another date for 1967:
Sun 5 Feb Ottawa, ONT Capitol Theatre – one show, 8:15 pm
(citations: ad – Ottawa Journal, Wed 1 Feb 1967, p 19
review – Ottawa Journal, Mon 6 Feb 1967, 31)
I’ve just discovered a new date for 1967:
Bryan-College Station, TX Bryan College G. Rollie White Coliseum, 9:15 pm show “after the bonfire”. Also of interest, The Hollies were the support act on the bill.
(citation: Bryan College “The Eagle”, Tue. 21 Nov, 1967, p 3.)
Sorry! The DATE for the Bryan College concert was Wed 22 Nov. How did I leave that out?!
Hello,
Just a clarification for the date 24 March 1967. Washington University is located in St Louis, Missouri.
Thanks Joe for this update. It’s appreciated.
Hello,
I’ve got a new concert date in 1966.
Friday 6 May Akron, OH Akron University Memorial Hall
One performance at 9pm, admission was $1.75.
(Citation: The Daily Kent Stater Thursday 5 May, page 3)
I have a bootleg that purports to be from Buffalo, January 2, 1967 – venue unknown. Anyone know if this is the real date, and where it was?
Good question. I will check what I have in my files about thos ‘ early ‘ bootlegs soon and get back to you about it.
Hi, does anyone know the exact set order of the Jan 1967 Lincoln Center show? I’d like to insert Red Rubber into the official CD’s setlist, but I want to be as sure as I that I know where it goes.
Thanks!
Remember their October ’67 concert at Fordham. There was a navy recruitment that day on campus, and a student demonstration. Garfunkel came on stage wearing a white sailor’s cap. He got virtually no response from the audience. I was a sophomore at Fordham then, and I wasn’t even aware of the demonstration. Garfunkel just shrugged, took the cap off, and sailed it into the crowd.
Hello,
I’ve got another date for 1967:
Monday 14 Aug Gaithersburg, MD Shady Grove Music Fair
(Citation: Washington DC Evening Star Ad – Sunday 11 June, p 78.)
Saw Simon and Garfunkel in 1967 in Saint John New Brunswick Canada at the Armories…Winter Carnival. Great to see it listed as one of their concerts that year….brings back lots of good memories.
Hello Kathy, thank you for writing to the blog. It is everytime amazing (in a positive way) how many people have good memories of the S&G concert they attended during a very important time of their live. Luckily the list with concerts they did still grows.
The show listed up top (1967-00-00 Port City, CANADA, Univ of New Brunswick, Saint John’s Armories) was Jan. 27 in Saint John, NB, Canada. Port City is Saint John’s nickname. The venue was Barrack Green Armoury. The show was put on by the University but it didn’t take place there. I have a grainy newspaper clipping which reviewed the concert if you’d like a scan of it. Please note – the city is Saint John, not “Saint John’s”. There are two cities with either name in Canada and they are frequently confused with one another.
Thank you for this update. I will change it accordingly. And if you could send a scan of the clipping to Simgar56@gmail.com that would be very kind. I will use it then in a new posting. Thanks, Rob
Did you get that clipping I sent you a few days ago about the Saint John show? Just confirming in case it ended up in your junk mail.
I apologize for not getting back to you earlier. Yes I received it. Working on a post for the blog. Your material is a great help. Thanks again.
Rob: I am from the same country as you are or were from: Holland. I just disocvered a very unknown page that is mentioned in the comments. I Juist found some more information about this “forgotten concert”. To make it easier for you I will give in the link to that page:
http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/forgotten_concerts_simon_and_g.html
Hello Corry. Thank you for the information. I am way behind with the updating of the blog at the moment. These comments brings it back to my attention! I will compare the Manchester video with the official recording I have. It is nice to see how ” easy ” Paul Simon performs. Something he still does after all these years.
I am still chasing (!) for concert dates of the early S&G period, so the comment about the Curry Hicks Cage at UMass-Amherst on Feb. 19, 1966 and Dec. 3, 1967 concerts is welcomed too.
Thank you very much, it is appreciated.
(overigens: ik woon ook in Nederland)
Best, Rob
Regarding the Granada Concert held in Liverpool in 1967 I also have some news about this GIG. At last the entire program has come beyond the vaults that were suspected this TV-program would be hidden in. If I am well an entire YouTube-video is available to weatch it and I will do a search regarding this entire concert:
1967-05-02 Granada Televison, United Kingdom (recorded in March 1967 in Manchester [take one, cropped]).
SETLIST:
1. He Was My Brother
2. Leaves That Are Green
3. A Most Peculiar Man
4. Homeward Bound
5. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
6. The Dangling Conversation
7. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
8. Richard Cory
9. 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night
10. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
11. At The Zoo
12. Cloudy
13. Benedictus
14. Blessed
15. A Poem On The Underground Wall
16. I Am A Rock
17. Anji
18. The Sound Of Silence.
Only to be seen on the following channel:
https://vimeo.com/127582774
Kind regards from Holland!
It was the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento in 1967 (re 1967-04-08 Sacramento, Auditorium (Name ??)
I was there. My friend Carol and I had to return some props we had borrowed for use at the Eaglet Theater where we volunteered on the day of the concert. We decided to stay and hide out in a dressing room because we did not have tickets for the concert. Lucky us – we were discovered hiding by Art and Paul and got to hang out with them while they warmed up. They asked us out “for drinks” after the show (we did not tell them we were only 17!) and then they went on stage to play. A security guy asked us for our backstage passes. Of course, we did not have any and he and another guard escorted us out. Great memory!
And what is greater is that tonight, after almost 50 years, the girl who was with me found me on facebook.
Good music, good memories and good friends
I attended the 3:00 pm performance on 1967-04-02 at the Carousel Theatre in West Covina CA. Between numbers, S & G were playful, noodling a song about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich… which came to naught. The audience could not have been more than a few hundred people. My date was Kurt Ellerbrock of Pasadena CA.
Nice to read this. You even remember the date you were with. 49 years ago. Time it was…
I saw them at Denver University Ice Rink. 3000 maybe. All sitting on one side. Lights out pure datkness as if no one else was there. Best concert I have ever seen. Remarkable. I also caught them July 67 at red rocks combined with lovin spoonful and others. Simon called a heckler a unic. 17 years old witnessing history. Wish I saved my ticket stubs.
I was also at the Denver concert. Do you know the date or year?
I know this Denver date of 1967:
1967-07-27 Simon & Garfunkel Denver Red Rocks Amphitheater
I was there, too. My recollection is it was fall of 1968 or 1969; Bookends had recently been released. It was in the DU Arena where the hockey team played, a since-torn-down building like a gigantic Quonsett hut. I was 14 at the time of the DU concert, had to get my mother to drive me and two girlfriends down.
I had the pleasure of producing the Simon & Garfunkel show at the Spring Weekend event at the University Maryland in May of 1967. Their Performance was everything you would expect -fantastic- but even more remarkable was thst they were the nicest people to work with. They were willing to take time to work with sound and with the staging and with the college students who were putting on the show and were absolutely professional to the nth degree. It was a complete sell-out of Cole Field House and the crowd just loved them. I’m looking forward to seeing Paul Simon, now 50 years later, in Missoula Montana at the end of June.
Thomas, Thank you for your email/comment. Over the years I have contacted many colleges about a possible S&G concert they had during Homecomings etc. Many responded. But this comment of course even more special. I will try to contact University of Maryland if there is still any material saved in their archives which I can publish. Again, thank you for your comment.
Hi -I attended that concert! The other act was Ian & Sylvia– what a wonderful intimate concert! Thank you!
Hello Susan, thank you for your comment. May I ask to which concert you are referring here? Thanks, Rob
Rob- Sorry for the late response- just seeing this today. The concert I attended was in College Park at the University of Maryland on 5/6/1967. – Cole Field House (Spring Weekend). Ian & Sylvia were the opening act. Tickets couldn’t have cost more than $10
My girlfriend (now wife) and I drove from Kent State to Baldwin-Wallace to see the Oct. 1967 concert there. One vivid memory is Paul introducing a new song. He said Mike Nichols had asked him to write one for a movie he was directing. That movie “became” The Graduate. The song was Punky’s Dilemma, which ironically never made it into the movie nor apparently on the soundtrack. Still crazy after all these (nearly 51) years, we will go see him in Sept. when he comes to Atlanta to bid farewell.
Wish I could have seen them during those years. Thanks for your memory sharing here. Wishing you a fine concert in Atlanta, will see him in Amsterdam (July 7th).
The very first entry in this listing was by an Ann Mills who saw their performance at Purdue. This was my experience as well, as a freshman at Purdue. I was in the front row and awestruck by the impact of a performance utilizing only two voices, a guitar and a mic. No bells, no whistles, just a pure, clear, powerful, artistic presence. It was a blessing to be there!
I have a recollection that I saw S&G at American University in Washington, D.C.. It would have been 1964-65, I think. Seems to me there was no charge, or maybe we were given tickets-i don’t remember? Can’t find any info about this show….
Hello Holly, could it have been:
1966-05-07 Washington DC Washington & Jefferson
or
1967-03-25 Washington DC Constitution Hall
Go to the Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, 1967 yearbook and you will see pictures of Simon and Grafunkel playing at Winter Carnival. I have the tearbook
Thank you Thomas for sharing your memories visiting the S&G concert in 1967. I cannot find an entry fir the Yearbook on JSC site. Do you have a link? Thanks, Rob
Yearbook
I was able to find “the Year book” with a Photograph of Simon and Garfunkel in this book.
Unfortunately not any discription is added about the concert was hel here:
Simon and Garfunkel at Winter Carnival 1967
https://unb67.wordpress.com/memories/
Regarding another “winter Festival” Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
also played in this university February 4th 1967
’50 yrs ago tomorrow night, American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkle played Acadia’s Winter Carnival!
#specialcollections #AcadiaAthenaeum #Simon&Garfunkle #FlashbackFriday #WinterCarnival Acadia University’
Thank you Corry27!
You`re welcome! Kind regards from a Dutch member and a hugh Paul Simon fan!
If anyone has any information on their May 1967 performance at Leisureland in Hamburg, NY for D’youville college’s MUD (Moving Up Day) weekend, such as the specific date of the show, ticket prices, etc, I’d be very grateful.
Thanks!
Also, I’d like to add a date to this list:
April 16, 1967, Sunday 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM
Lee Hall Gymnasium
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY
Source:
https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=osw19670421-01&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN-Simon+and+Garfunkel———
Thank you so much for your contribution. We can some more new dates to the 1967 calender. Great and much appreciated. Will try to fins more infor about the D’youville College performance too. Thanks again, Rob
The concert was probably in the weekend of May 5th and 6th 1967. See https://paulsimontimeitwas.com/2025/07/28/1967-dyouville-college/ where I published a samll post about it.
Thanks!
I have dug into this concert very deeply and have done a lot of research on it on behalf of my mother who was there and doesn’t remember the specifics of the show.
Based on what I have found on several sources, including this site, the concert was either:
May 4, 1967 (Thursday) or May 7, 1967 (Sunday), as they had gigs in NJ and MD on May 5 and 6, 1967:
1967-05-05 Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, Dillon Gym /McCarter Theater
1967-05-06 College Park University of Maryland / Cole Field House (Spring Weekend)
The only date I could find before this show was:
1967-04-29 Baltimore, Lyric Theater. Based on their tour schedule in 1967, they more than likely had shows scheduled in the days leading up to the D’Youville show (if it was on 5/4) or they drove to Western NY from College Park, MD after their 5/6 show to Hamburg, NY for the possible 5/7 date.
College Park, MD to Hamburg, NY is only a 6 1/2 hour drive – in 2025. I’m not sure how long that drive was in 1967. The next date on your list is
1967-05-13 Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, Johnson Gym
THE QUESTION THEN: Did they play College Park, MD, drive 6 1/2 hours to WNY to play a show and head out for New Mexico from there, playing shows along the way?
Or did they play for D’Youville on 5/4, then go to Princeton and College Park?
The answer, more than likely, lies in the missing dates before or after 5/5/1967 and 5/6/1967 – unless someone who was there could tell us.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was told that artist sometimes travelled between shows the same day. With all the equipment that seems very unlikely now, but in 1967 two men and two guitars….but on the other hand a travel of 6,5 hours by car does not seem likely.
It seems to have been May 4th, Thursday, the first day of the MUD-weekend. I still had to get it confirmed with an advertisement and did not put it up in the list. With this newspaper clipping I think we now have so I added it to the list.