Intriguing rumours this week of a possible concert next year at the National Arboretum Canberra by Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel, Graceland and all-round legend fame.
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We hear the amphitheatre at the arboretum has been booked for March 29 supposedly on behalf of Chugg Entertainment, no stranger to working with big-name acts and the promoter also bringing Elton John to Canberra later this year.
Chugg Entertainment did not respond to calls. The arboretum's chair, John Mackay, and the ACT government's Centenary of Canberra office said they knew nothing of the concert. We did hear the Centenary of Canberra people got ever so slightly huffy about the Simon concert because it would ''dilute'' crowds at the National Folk Festival which runs from March 28 to April 1. They reckon that they just want to know about events planned for the centenary year as soon as possible so they don't clash with the official program. Perhaps a star of Simon's stature might actually attract more people to Canberra who will hang around for the festival.
Whatever the case, the prospect of the sweet sounds of Simon floating out over the arboretum on a crisp autumn night is a tantalising prospect. It could turn out to be the event of the centenary, without actually being a centenary event.
