The Voodoo Experience is now in the rearview and the relentless fall concert schedule is starting to slow down (although one could easily keep themselves busy on the live circuit until NYE) and therefore it’s time to start speculating about the 2012 Jazz Fest lineup. Hard to say who will be at the top of the bill when the lineup is announced but since we’ve probably got a over a month until the lineup release (or two months if released on last year’s timetable), here’s a handful of artists (however unlikely some may be) who could conceivably be at the Fairgrounds come Spring time. READ MORE
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to catch one of my favorite concerts ever when I saw Paul Simon play a sold-out show at the Fillmore here in San Francisco. It was a bittersweet event for me in a few ways because I have a very nostalgic, emotional and personal connection to Simon’s music (who doesn’t) and being forced to rock the show solo was a bummer in a few ways. But once he hit the stage and opened the show with one of my favorite songs ever, “The Boy in the Bubble,” I got chills and everything else melted away as I watched a tremendous musician recreate music and emotion so flawlessly that the crowd was in the palm of his hand.
And he’s been doing this for at least 25 years since the release of the seminal album, Graceland, and Billboard is running with the amazing exclusive that Simon’s recent shift to Sony is going to mean a box set release commemorating that anniversary along with a tour with the original 1987 band that recorded the album…
A 25th anniversary tour to celebrate Paul Simon’s landmark Gracelandalbum next year is in the early planning stages. The tour would coincide with a “Graceland” box set that Sony Legacy will release in the late spring, most likely in May.
Simon told Billboard.com he intends to reunite musicians who toured with him in 1987, among them the South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Paul Simon is still on tour following up the So Beautiful Or So Whatalbum; read on for his current dates… >>>
I can’t tell you how excited I am for tonight’s Paul Simon show at the Fillmore here in San Francisco. He’s already played two nights here in the Bay Area and I expect this show to deliver some serious goods, and I’m already flush with emotion realizing that I’ll finally get to see this legend in somewhat close proximity while he’s playing his sweet, sweet music. Here’s to hoping he busts out “Boy in the Bubble,” which he did down in LA recently…
Paul Simon recently announced a spring tour across the country and quickly sold-out many of the dates on the tour, so today the news broke that he’s also added some club shows in the sold-out geographies for the fans that might not have tickets yet. This means that SF fans now get a chance to see Simon at the famed Fillmore with shows also added in Seattle, LA, Chicago, Toronto, D.C. and Boston. Via the press release:
“I’m going to play 3,000 seat theaters and also clubs,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I want to play several songs from the new album and music from my repertoire that I either haven’t played in concert or have played very seldom. I want to let the band be freer. I’m actually really looking forward to this tour. I’ll play a few songs by other people, maybe a couple of Simon and Garfunkel songs. And then late in the evening, who knows, I might pick up my acoustic guitar and sing whatever comes into my mind. That’s the fun of clubs, it’s looser. I can come at it all from a place that’s fresh.”
Paul Simon
Widespread Panic
The Black Keys
My Morning Jacket Foo Fighters Jane’s Addiction Flaming Lips (make-up show for last year’s cancellation)
Cee Lo Green
Primus
Pretty Lights
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Bassnectar
Girl Talk
Ween
Matisyahu
Slightly Stoopid
Warren Haynes Band
Umphrey’s McGee
Galactic
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Drive-By Truckers
Amos Lee
Xavier Rudd
G. Love & Special Sauce
Medeski, Martin, & Wood
Keller Williams
Minus the Bear
Portugal. the man
Jonathan Tyler and Northern Lights
Beats Antique, Truth & Salvage Co.
Rich Aucoin
Kristy Lee
Civil Twilight
A Thousand Horses
Roman Street
Update: The Avett Brothers, STS9, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Brandi Carlile, JJ Grey and Mofro, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Big Gigantic, Soja, Railroad Earth, Greensky Bluegrass, Rival Sons, & Honey Island Swamp Band have been added to the lineup.
In the lead-up to their official 2010 lineup announcement, Bonnaroo gave their website a fresh redesign and officially announced the date of their official lineup announcement. Heh. They’ll reveal this year’s lineup next Tuesday, February 9 over at Bonnaro.com.
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album; read on for his current dates… 
