The Boch Center Wang Theatre

Presents 

"PAUL SIMON: A QUIET CELEBRATION TOUR"

Three Performances Only!

Performance Dates:

June 10, 2025 at 8:00pm

June 12, 2025 at 8:00pm

June 13, 2025 at 8:00pm

BOCH CENTER WANG THEATRE, 270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. 02116

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ABOUT THE SHOW

PAUL SIMON embarks on a series of intimate concert performances with "A QUIET CELEBRATION TOUR" coming to the Boch Center Wang Theatre on June 10, June 12 and June 13, 2025. 

Legendary singer-songwriter PAUL SIMON will present the live debut of his critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated album “Seven Psalms” and an intimate celebration of his timeless classics. 

The evolution of this extraordinary artist continues to unfold with this offering, in which SIMON chose to perform in intimate venues where the acoustics are optimal in consideration of the severe hearing loss that he incurred over the last few years. 

During his distinguished career, PAUL SIMON has been the recipient of many honors and awards including 12 Grammy Awards, three of which (“Bridge Over Troubled Water”, “Still Crazy After All These Years” and “Graceland”) were albums of the year. 

In 2003, SIMON was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as half of the duo SIMON and Garfunkel. 

PAUL SIMON is a member of The Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of their Johnny Mercer Award and is in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a member of SIMON and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. 

His song “Mrs. Robinson” from the motion picture “The Graduate” was named in the top ten of The American Film Institute’s 100 Years 100 Songs. 

PAUL SIMON was a recipient of The Kennedy Center Honors in 2002 and was named as one of Time Magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World” in 2006. 

In 2007, SIMON was awarded the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. 

Named in honor of the legendary George and Ira Gershwin, this award recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture, and is given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwin’s. 

In 2011, PAUL SIMON was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Of SIMON's many concert appearances, he is most fond of the two concerts in Central Park in New York (with his partner and childhood friend Art Garfunkel in 1981 and as a solo artist in 1991) and the series of shows he did at the invitation of Nelson Mandela in South Africa: the first American artist to perform in post-apartheid South Africa. 

In 1998, his performance on center field at Yankee Stadium celebrating the unveiling of Joe DiMaggio’s monument is a treasured memory for this lifelong Yankee’s fan. 

PAUL SIMON's philanthropic work includes the co-founding of The Children’s Health Fund with Dr. Irwin Redlener. 

The CHF donates and staffs mobile medical vans that bring health care to poor and indigent children in urban and rural locations around the United States. 

Since its inception in 1986, CHF has provided over three million doctor/patient visits. 

In the wake of Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, CHF was the primary health care source for those communities decimated by the storms. 

PAUL SIMON has also raised millions of dollars for worthy causes as varied as AMFAR, The Nature Conservancy, The Fund for Imprisoned Children in South Africa, Autism Speaks and The Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation.

It was during the recording of “Seven Psalms,” as revealed in the acclaimed “In Restless Dreams” documentary, that SIMON began to steadily lose the hearing in his left ear which initially made extended live performances impossible. 

Together with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, and his own production team, PAUL SIMON redesigned his entire stage set up to make performing viable. 

This included moving monitors to surround him as recently discussed on CBS Mornings LINK. 

Inspired to perform again, SIMON began work rehearsing and figuring out how he could bring “Seven Psalms” to the stage along with new arrangements of familiar favorites. 

Recorded on entirely acoustic instruments and performed predominantly by SIMON, “Seven Psalms” transcended the concept of the “album” and was released as a single piece of continuous music in seven movements. 

PAUL SIMON often says the listener completes the song, and he was eager to expand the experience into the live forum by performing this intricately layered work in intimate rooms with pristine acoustics. 

The band will include: Caleb Burhans (viola), Jamey Haddad (percussion), Gyan Riley (guitar), Mick Rossi (piano, keys), Andy Snitzer (saxophone), Nancy Stagnita (flute), Mark Stewart (guitar) and Eugene Friesen (Cello). Steve Gadd and Matt Chamberlin will alternate on drums. 

For more information and to purchase tickets please visit paulsimon.com! 

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ABOUT THE WANG AND SHUBERT THEATRES

Just as the city and audience have evolved with the times, the Boch Center, as guardian of the WANG and SHUBERT THEATRES (and from 2012-15, the Center also managed the historic Emerson Colonial Theatre), has changed to meet the needs of its community. Uniquely using a Balanced Scorecard (a Fortune 500 management framework), strategy map, and strategic dashboard, the Boch Center ensures that our Theatres and programs stay relevant to the community we serve. Today, the Boch Center is considered a best practice institution and nonprofit arts leader. With the belief that arts make and keep us a civilized nation, the Boch Center is dedicated to providing high-quality, diverse and culturally relevant arts and entertainment, and arts education programming for New England residents and visitors.

ABOUT THE BOCH CENTER

The Boch Center is one of the nation’s leading nonprofit performing arts institutions and a guardian of the historic WANG and SHUBERT THEATRES. As New England’s largest cultural venue, the Boch Center is home to theater, classical and popular music, dance, comedy, opera, Broadway musicals, family entertainment, and more. Located in Boston’s historic Theater District, the Boch Center also offers a diverse mix of educational, cultural and community outreach initiatives, including the City Spotlights Leadership Program and the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame; collaborates with artists and local nonprofit arts organizations; preserves historic venues; and acts as a champion for Greater Boston’s arts and cultural community. 

Learn more at bochcenter.org.