Appearing in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 6, 2008, for the
American Association of Retired People - tickets available through
AARP. Get your wheelchairs ready, folks!
http://www.aarp.org/aarp_benefits/natl_events/dc/entertainment/
http://www.aarp.org/aarp_benefits/natl_events/dc/entertainment/paulsi...
Paul Simon
Paul Simon is one of the most distinguished songwriters and performers
of our time. Of his 12 Grammy Awards, three ("Bridge Over Troubled
Water," "Still Crazy After All These Years" and "Graceland") were for
albums of the year. In 2003 he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award for his work as half of the duo Simon and Garfunkel. He was
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock n' Roll Hall
of Fame, both as a member of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist.
The American Film Institute included his song, "Mrs. Robinson" from
The Graduate, in the top 10 of its "100 Years 100 Songs."
The concert appearances he is most fond of were 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 performed at the invitation of Nelson Mandela, making him the
first American artist to perform in post-apartheid South Africa.
His philanthropic work includes co-founding the Children's Health
Fund, which donates and staffs mobile medical vans that bring health
care to poor and indigent children in urban and rural America. Simon
has also raised millions of dollars for varied causes that include
AMFAR, the Nature Conservancy and Autism Speaks.
Simon has been honored with the first annual Library of Congress
Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (2007), the Kennedy Center Honors
(2003) and the United Negro College Fund's Frederick D. Patterson
Award (1989).
