Paul Simon, 83, and fresh off his triumphant “Homeward Bound” duet with Sabrina Carpenter to open Sunday’s 50th anniversary celebration of “Saturday Night Live,” is “Denver bound.”

Simon has announced his “A Quiet Celebration Tour,” billed as a series of intimate concert performances          in support of his Grammy-nominated 2023 album “Seven Psalms,” as well as his timeless classics.

Denver will be just Simon’s third tour stop. He will perform April 14, 16 and 17 at the Paramount Theatre, which seats 1,870 and has long been considered a popular destination for large acts looking for smaller concert settings.

Simon is performing in intimate venues with optimal acoustics in consideration of the severe hearing loss he has incurred over the past few years, according to the tour announcement.

Simon recently told “CBS Mornings” he began to steadily lose the hearing in his left ear while recording “Seven Psalms” – a concept album Simon released as a single piece of continuous music in seven movements. Working with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, Simon’s production team designed a stage plan using unprecedented accommodations that will allow Simon to again perform live.

Tickets to Simon’s Denver concerts (starting at $64.50) go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday at ticketmaster.com.

Gone Phishing in Boulder

Phish will take a break this year from its longstanding Labor Day weekend tradition at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Instead, the iconic jam band will take occupancy at Folsom Field on the CU Boulder campus for the July 3-5 holiday weekend.

This continues a tradition of monumental Boulder blowouts that has included Dead & Co., the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel and many others those of us who attended will always (try to) remember. Phish is one of 14 official nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025, a group that includes Billy Joel, OutKast and Chubby Checker (winners to be announced in April).

A Phish “ticket request period” is now underway at tickets.phish.com and will continue through 10 a.m. Feb. 24. Tickets will “officially” go on sale to the public at 8 a.m. Feb. 28. For those out of town, “travel packages” are now on sale. For more information, visit cubuffs.com/phish.

“The University of Colorado is thrilled to host Phish for the July 4 weekend. There are few experiences more special than seeing a concert at Folsom Field on a beautiful summer night underneath the stars and the Flatirons,” said CU Athletics Senior Associate Athletic Director Ryan Gottlieb. “I’m certain that Phish’s three shows here will be nothing short of transcendent.”

Which to me is kind of an astonishing statement because in all my years of attending either school or concerts at CU, I can’t previously recall any CU bigshots ever being excited for whatever is about to go down at Folsom Field over the July 4 weekend.

Other new concert announcements

This year’s Bluebird Music Festival will be headlined by Bruce Hornsby, Watchhouse and The Tallest Man on Earth from April 18-20 at Macky Auditorium on the CU Boulder campus. The bill includes Isaac Slade (formerly of The Fray). The previously announced Mipso has dropped off the playbill because band member Jacob Sharp’s home was damaged in the Altadena fire. Tickets at bluebirdmusicfestival.org …

“The Sunlandic Twins,” the magical album that broke Kevin Barnes and Of Montreal in 2005, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a tour stop July 26 at the Gothic Theatre. “Filled with elastic melodies, dizzy DIY disco and starry-eyed romance,” Rolling Stone wrote, “it connected with fans in a way that no Of Montreal album had done before.” Tickets $30 at axs.com …

Halsey is coming to Red Rocks on June 22 (tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at formylasttrick.com). Alabama Shakes plays Red Rocks on July 20 (tickets on sale now, but they start at $154) …

Tennis, the beloved duo born out of the University of Colorado’s philosophy department in 2008, returns home Aug. 26 in support of their seventh album, “Face Down in the Garden,” at Mission Ballroom. Most tickets $46 and on sale now at axs.com.