Performance

Graceland

1 upcoming performance in New York

This “Graceland” is not the Memphis estate, but Paul Simon’s song cycle about travel, collaboration, and American pop meeting South African township sounds in the mid-1980s. At The Bitter End, Leave A Lasting Mark presents a live set built around that material, placing Rock/Pop craft beside the politics of cultural exchange. In New York, where Simon’s career was forged, the work reads as a local chapter in a larger argument about authorship and influence. Its power remains, even as the questions it raised about credit and context still hang in the air.