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New York after the pandemic: Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon are said to be playing in Central Park

2021-07-01T21:49:10.059Z


Tens of thousands of New Yorkers should be able to celebrate the end of the long Corona months in August - with a concert event in Central Park. Mayor Bill De Blasio now revealed which stars should appear.


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Musician Paul Simon (2011 in Berlin): New York mascot

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Paul Simon is something like the mascot of New York City, at least one of its good spirits. 30 years ago the singer ("Bridge Over Troubled Water") gave a big concert in Central Park in the middle of Manhattan, which attracted tens of thousands of spectators. Ten years earlier, in 1981, he and his musical partner Art Garfunkel gave the equally large and acclaimed “Concert in Central Park” at the same location, which distracted the city, which was then plagued by crime and poverty, from reality for a few hours.

In August, Simon, 79, who was born next door in Newark, will once again give his city courage.

He is one of the star cast of a planned concert event with which New York, which has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus, is to symbolically end and drive out the long, arduous and, above all, culture-poor months of exit restrictions and protective measures.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose second and final term of office will end in autumn, gives it to his citizens as a farewell, so to speak.

Singer Jennifer Hudson: "Courage and Determination"

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He announced on Thursday that in addition to Paul Simon, rock "boss" Bruce Springsteen and the Oscar and two Grammy award-winning soul singer Jennifer Hudson will perform in Central Park.

Further stars and participants in the several-hour show are to be announced in the coming weeks.

"It will be a great moment for the city that will mark our rebirth and our comeback, and it will be one of the greatest Central Park concerts in history," said de Blasio in his statement.

The majority of the tickets should be given away for free

An exact date for the event, which is planned for tens of thousands of visitors, has not yet been set; the New York Times speculated at the beginning of June that it could fall on August 21 - or August 15, the same date Paul did Simon performed in the park in 1991.

Bruce Springsteen, who already dedicated the song and parts of the album "The Rising" to New York after the 9/11 attacks, initiated the opening of cultural institutions in the city last weekend when he resumed his Broadway show.

The 71-year-old musician is loved in New York City "in an extraordinary way, although he happens to be from New Jersey - no one is perfect," said Mayor de Blasio.

Jennifer Hudson, 39, who once became known with the talent show "American Idol" and then won the Oscar in 2006 as a singer in the Motown film "Dreamgirls", is also from Chicago, not from New York. that captures the courage and determination we all feel as we struggle through this crisis, ”said de Blasio.

"Boss" Springsteen: From New Jersey, but "Nobody is perfect"

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Grammy producer and music industry legend Clive Davis, 89, who had worked with Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Alicia Keys and once discovered Whitney Houston, was hired to organize the mega-concert.

"I can't

think of

a better place than

Central Park's

Great Lawn

to say New York is reopening," Davis, who is from Brooklyn, said in an interview in June.

The concert in Central Park is to be part of a "Homecoming Week" with which the city wants to celebrate its resurrection for a week.

According to the New York Times, the global concert giant Live Nation will be involved in the production of the event, but the majority of the tickets will be given out for free.

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Source: spiegel

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