At his first Canadian concert in seven years, Paul Simon calls Canada a 'beacon in the darkness'

Wearing jeans, a ball cap and a purple jacket, he began strumming the 1968 Simon and Garfunkel song "America" before soon stopping.

“I wrote that song many years ago,” the 83-year-old singer-songwriter explained, in a voice much softer than it would have been in ‘68. He said America was about anger and division, and that today we have a similar situation, with millions of people (like the song’s young lovers on a Greyhound bus) looking for the “real” U.S.A.

“I’m happy to report that I’ve found it,” he said. “It’s here in Canada. You really are a beacon in the darkness at this point.”

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