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November 27, 2011 - USA / New Jersey
Newark - Performing Arts Center

Setlist

The Boy in the Bubble
Dazzling Blue
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
The Afterlife
Vietnam (with Jimmy Cliff)
Mother and Child Reunion (with Jimmy Cliff)
The Harder They Come (with Jimmy Cliff)
The Boxer
That Was Your Mother
Hearts and Bones
Mystery Train/Wheels
Slip Slidin´ Away
Rewrite
Peace Like a River
The Obvious Child
The Only Living Boy in New York
Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Late in the Evening

Encore:
The Sound of Silence
Kodachrome
Gone at Last
Here Comes the Sun
Gumboots

Encore 2:
Graceland
Pretty Thing
Still Crazy After All These Years

The band (not all members are present at all shows)

Vincent Nguini - Guitar
Bakithi Kumalo - Bass
Mark Stewart - Guitars, Cello, Saxophone, selfmade instruments
Tony Cedras - Accordeon, Keyboard, Guitars
Andy Snitzer - Saxophone, Synthesizer
Jamey Haddad - Percussion
Mick Rossi - Piano, Percussion
Jim Oblon - Drums, Guitars

Fans who attended this show

This was the second show I saw of this tour; during the first leg, I´d seen one of the Beacon Theater shows. That show was good; this one was incredible.

Maybe it was something about being back in ´his little town´ of Newark...maybe it was being close to home, but without the pressures of an in-the-boroughs New York crowd...but everything was on this night. The band was tight, Paul was in great voice. Even though I´d seen essentially the same setlist and playing styles just a few months before, this show was way better -- and that´s not a slight to the Beacon performance by any means.

The most magical bit had to be Jimmy Cliff appearing, though. The two of them harmonising on Mother and Child Reunion is a moment I can never forget.