A Simon And Garfunkel Tour Could Start This Year
SIMON & GARFUNKEL are hoping to tour later this year.
"Late 2011 -- I feel in my bones, in my cells, that that's the scenario," Garfunkel tells Billboard.com during a conversation about the duo's just-released "Bridge Over Troubled Water: 40th Anniversary Edition." "Give me a little more time. At the rate the voice is coming back, I should be in pretty good shape by, as the corporations say, the fourth quarter of 2011." No dates have been booked yet, however.
Simon & Garfunkel scratched a series of North American dates on their Old Friends tour in 2010 after Garfunkel was diagnosed with vocal cord paresis. Since then he's been healing with vocal exercises, steam, gargling and other treatments, including voice warm-up tapes sent to him by friends.
"I'm being challenged by the Lord to have patience, real patience," Garfunkel says. "It's coming along slowly, painfully, excruciatingly slow. I try and stay off the subject and not bemoan anything. But I'm never going to give up on my crusade to return to the stage...I swear to you we'll do those dates."
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