Paul Simon’s comeback tour is heading beyond the stage. Paul Simon: The Quiet Celebration Concert will premiere on June 26, 2026, on Disney+ and Hulu, with a companion live LP arriving on October 9. The project documents Simon’s return to the road after a long break and turns one of his most intimate touring chapters into a concert film and album.
The tour itself marked Simon’s return after a seven-year hiatus from the road, much of it shaped by hearing issues that made live performance more complicated. In the film trailer, Simon says, “I had no idea how performing live could be done,” a line that captures just how daunting the comeback initially felt.
Simon first launched the Quiet Celebration run in support of Seven Psalms, his 2023 release and the centerpiece of the first half of each show. On the official site, Simon said, “This tour has enabled me to play with musicians again. I really missed it.” The concerts are structured in two parts: a full reading of Seven Psalms followed by Simon’s classics and deeper cuts.
The concert film was shot at Simon’s August stop at McCaw Hall in Seattle, one of the two Seattle dates added specifically for filming on August 5 and 6, 2025. The set included solo material and Simon & Garfunkel favorites such as “Graceland” and “The Boxer,” along with a trio of songs from the 1983 album Hearts and Bones, which has often been overlooked in his catalog.
Simon’s touring band includes musicians who also helped shape the live interpretation of Seven Psalms, among them Edie Brickell, Jamey Haddad, Matt Chamberlain, and Steve Gadd. Brickell joined Simon onstage for four songs, including two from Seven Psalms, helping give the show a looser, more collaborative feel than a standard legacy-tour set.
Simon said the shared energy of the run was a huge part of what made it special. “Everybody has enjoyed the experience so much,” he said in the trailer, adding that the show created “a feeling of camaraderie and elation” and became “one of the most extraordinary tours I’ve done — maybe the most joyous.” That quote, more than anything, frames the project: not just as a comeback, but as a deeply satisfying return to live music on Simon’s own terms.
The tour has already kept moving well into 2026. After a run of European dates, it returned to the U.S. this week in Stanford, California, and is scheduled to continue through July 18 with a final two-show stop in Highland Park, Illinois, including performances in Simon’s hometown of Forest Hills, Queens.
For Simon, the film and album are less like a retrospective and more like a document of a hard-won return. After stepping back because of hearing problems, he found a way to play again, surround himself with players he trusts, and turn that experience into something fans can revisit. The Quiet Celebration project captures that moment in full: the struggle, the relief, and the joy of making music live again.
