THE music of Simon & Garfunkel is coming to Shaftesbury Arts Centre next weekend with the Sounds of Simon.
The two-hour show covers all Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Simon’s hits over a 30-year period, starting with The Sound of Silence, released in 1965, through to Simon’s experiments with world music from Graceland and beyond.

The performance is accompanied by archive footage of Simon and Garfunkel, allowing the stars to tell their own story.
Ben Bowden and Adam Ellis, who play the duo on stage, recently released their new live album, American Tunes. Adam enjoys the challenge of playing the songs. “It’s great to take a songwriter as brilliant as Paul Simon and then track his development over 30 years,” he said. “The evening will show how a songwriter practises and develops his craft.”
Ben recently featured on BBC’s The One Show, performing as Paul Simon and talking about the songwriter’s visit to England in 1965. It was on this trip that Simon reputedly wrote his hit Homeward Bound.

The Sounds of Simon are celebrating their 15th year of touring but this will be the band’s first appearance in Shaftesbury. “It’s great to come to new places and make old friends,” said Ben.
Tickets for the new show, Old Friends Together and Apart, on Saturday December 3, are £15 and available from the venue on 01747 854321 or online from www.shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk