{"id":794062,"date":"2019-03-22T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=811982"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:20:13","slug":"paul-simon-ends-brief-farewell-with-outside-lands-headlining-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/paul-simon-ends-brief-farewell-with-outside-lands-headlining-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon Ends Brief Farewell With Outside Lands Headlining Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/paul-simon-last-show-2018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Less than a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-simon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-simon\" data-tag=\"paul-simon\">Paul Simon<\/a> ended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/paul-simon-announces-homeward-bound-farewell-tour-197799\/\">his farewell tour<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/paul-simon-farewell-tour-final-show-corona-728079\/\">a hometown gig in Queens, New York<\/a>, the singer-songwriter will return to the stage after booking a headlining slot at San Francisco\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/outside-lands\/\" id=\"auto-tag_outside-lands\" data-tag=\"outside-lands\">Outside Lands<\/a> Festival this August.<\/p>\n<p>While the festival won\u2019t announce their full lineup until March 26th, organizers revealed that Simon would perform Sunday night to close out the fest, his first concert since his Homeward Bound tour wrapped in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, organizers announced that Simon would donate all proceeds from the headlining gig to an an as-yet-unnamed local environmental nonprofit organization, <a href=\"https:\/\/datebook.sfchronicle.com\/music\/paul-simon-to-headline-outside-lands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward with great anticipation to playing at Golden Gate Park this summer. This will be my first appearance there, and it\u2019s an honor to join the long line of musicians who\u2019ve given the park its sanctified musical heritage,\u201d Simon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m equally pleased to be playing in San Francisco with its well-deserved reputation for being in the forefront of environmental issues. I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to be of service to this vital cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Simon embarked on his extensive Homeward Bound farewell tour in 2018, the rock legend hinted that he would still perform the one-off concert for charity, in addition to remaining a recording artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this coming tour,&nbsp;I anticipate doing the occasional performance in a (hopefully) acoustically pristine hall, and to donate those earnings to various philanthropic organizations, particularly those whose objective is to save the planet, ecologically,\u201d Simon <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/music\/news\/paul-simon-explains-his-retirement-from-touring-1202687425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>Variety<\/em><\/a> in February 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/paul-simon-outside-lands-811982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a year after Paul Simon ended his farewell tour with a hometown gig in Queens, New York, the singer-songwriter will return to the stage after booking a headlining slot at San Francisco\u2019s Outside Lands Festival this August. While the festival won\u2019t announce their full lineup until March 26th, organizers revealed that Simon would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 22:36:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}