[Dixielandjazz] Simon & Garfunkel to play at N.O. Jazz & Heritage Festival

[Stephen G Barbone]

January 13, 2010, 12:00 AM - NY TIMES - BY BEN SISARIO

Simon and Garfunkel to Play Jazzfest

For a month, fans and potential customers of the New Orleans Jazz and  
Heritage Festival have been eyeing a big “artist TBA” on the schedule  
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. That TBA has now been  
announced by the festival: the surprise act for the first of  
Jazzfest’s two weekends, on April 24, will be the reunited Simon and  
Garfunkel. It’s not the first time that Paul Simon has played  
Jazzfest, but it will be Art Garfunkel’s first time there, and this is  
to be Simon and Garfunkel’s only American appearance in 2010. Simon  
and Garfunkel fans have been awaiting news of unions shows in the  
United States since Mr. Garfunkel joined Mr. Simon onstage at the  
Beacon Theater in New York last February. The festival, now in its  
41st year, will also feature, among many others, Lionel Richie, My  
Morning Jacket, Dr. John, Darius Rucker and Drake in its first weekend  
(April 23 to 25), and Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, B.B.  
King, the Neville Brothers and Widespread Panic in its second (April  
29 to May 2).