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Art Garfunkel gets a head start on 2009
Fresh off a European tour, Art Garfunkel is already looking ahead to next year, when he'll wind his way through the US once again.
The veteran singer/songwriter has planned at least a week's worth of shows each month from January to April. He'll kick things off Jan. 9 with a three-gig run in California and then head for the East Coast and Midwest. Stops include a February two-night stand in Lakeland, FL, and a March 14 concert in Toronto. Details are listed below.
Garfunkel, who has won five Grammys as one half of folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, continues to support his 12th solo album, last year's "Some Enchanted Evening." The set celebrates material from 20th Century songwriters including Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Antonio Carlos Jobim and George Gershwin. It includes the classics "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Let's Fall in Love" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." The latter tune is streaming at Garfunkel's MySpace page.
"Some Enchanted Evening" follows Garfunkel's 2002 effort, "Everything Waits to be Noticed," which marked his songwriting debut.
The performer is also revisiting his Simon & Garfunkel days with two recently released projects. The Starbucks coffee chain has offered up the "Live 1969" CD, which draws from previously unreleased recordings from the duo's November 1969 US tour. Also, New York disc jockey Pete Fornatale has released the biography "Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends," which traces the social climate and popular culture of 1968 that created what he says was one of rock's ultimate "concept" albums.
Garfunkel, who counts acting and poetry among his talents, also shows up in Charles Grodin's book, "If I Only Knew Then ... Learning from Our Mistakes," which benefits the HELP USA homeless charity. The singer is one of 82 celebrities who share stories about lessons learned the hard way.
