Fresh from opening the “Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special” with Sabrina Carpenter, Paul Simon has announced his unretirement from touring with the “A Quiet Celebration Tour” set to hit Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre on April 20, 22 and 23.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer announced his farewell tour in 2018, citing time away from his family and the death of longtime guitarist Vincent Nguini. That June, he sold out St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center and played a career-spanning set that ran two hours and 20 minutes.

In the time since, the 83-year-old has revealed he lost most of his hearing in his left ear.

According to a news release, for his upcoming tour Simon “chose to perform in intimate venues where the acoustics are optimal in consideration of the severe hearing loss that he incurred over the last few years. … Together with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, and his own production team, Simon redesigned his entire stage set up to make performing viable.”

The tour is expected to include a performance of Simon’s 15th album “Seven Psalms” in its entirety. Inspired by a dream, Simon wrote the single piece of continuous music in seven movements that’s intended to be listened to as one long piece. It earned Simon his 28th Grammy nomination.

Simon first rose to fame in the ’60s as half of the folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel. He went on to establish a successful solo career in the ’70s and has won 16 Grammys, including an album of the year award for 1986’s “Graceland,” his biggest-selling solo record. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Garfunkel in 1990 and as a solo artist in 2001.

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