The Simon & Garfunkel Story
Friday, March 1, 8 p.m.
Broadway entertainment returns to the UMass campus! Don’t sleep on this performance. The Simon & Garfunkel Story has been selling out venues wherever it goes. The best seats won’t last long.
‘‘Fantastic’’ – Elaine Paige, BBC Radio
“Authentic and exciting” – The Stage
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is an immersive concert-style theater show that chronicles the amazing journey of the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The show uses huge projection photos and original film footage and features a full live band performing all the hits including “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Homeward Bound” and many more.
It tells the duo’s full story, from their humble beginnings as Tom & Jerry to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s to their dramatic split in 1970. It culminates with the famous Concert in Central Park reunion in 1981 with more than half a million fans in attendance.
Simon & Garfunkel’s perfect harmonies and songs that poignantly captured the times made them one of the most successful folk-rock duos of all time with more than 100 million album sales. Simon & Garfunkel won ten Grammy Awards over the years. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2003, Simon & Garfunkel were awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. And the following year saw their song “The Sound of Silence” earn a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
Join us for this incredible evening of song and story, and discover (or rediscover) folk rock's greatest duo.
‘‘Fantastic’’ – Elaine Paige, BBC Radio
“Authentic and exciting” – The Stage
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is an immersive concert-style theater show that chronicles the amazing journey of the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The show uses huge projection photos and original film footage and features a full live band performing all the hits including “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Homeward Bound” and many more.
It tells the duo’s full story, from their humble beginnings as Tom & Jerry to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s to their dramatic split in 1970. It culminates with the famous Concert in Central Park reunion in 1981 with more than half a million fans in attendance.
Simon & Garfunkel’s perfect harmonies and songs that poignantly captured the times made them one of the most successful folk-rock duos of all time with more than 100 million album sales. Simon & Garfunkel won ten Grammy Awards over the years. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2003, Simon & Garfunkel were awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. And the following year saw their song “The Sound of Silence” earn a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
Join us for this incredible evening of song and story, and discover (or rediscover) folk rock's greatest duo.
Thank you to our season sponsors:
Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall
151 Presidents Drive, Amherst MA 01003
Reserved $80, $65, $55 and $40Youth 17 and under and Five College students $30, $25, $20, $15
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