Paul Simon, Allen Toussaint to Team Up for New Orleans Benefit Show

UPDATE: We are very sad to report that New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint died on Monday in Madrid. He was 77.

New Orleans icon Allen Toussaint will join forces with legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon for a benefit show at Le Petit Theatre on Tuesday, December 8. The performance will raise money for New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness, a non-profit that was founded by Toussaint and Aaron Neville in 1985.

The pair first collaborated over 40 years ago when Toussaint wrote the horn arrangements for “Tenderness,” a track on Simon’s 1973 album There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. More recently, Toussaint performed “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”–a tune that appears on the same record–at a Carnegie Hall tribute to Simon in 2014.

NOAAHH will disribute the funds from the concert to organizations that provide assistance to homeless and hungry people in the metropolitan New Orleans area. Since its founding, the non-profit has given over $2 million to over 50 different groups.

Tickets for the event include an open bar are available for $300. There will also be a $500 ticket option that includes entry to a pre-show Patron Party at Dickie Brennan’s Tableau.