Paul Simon for Hurricane Katrina victims. The pair performed together in April 2010 in New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. After Simon and Garfunkel split in 1970, Simon began writing and recording solo material again. His album "Paul Simon" was released in January 1972, preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired "Mother and Child Reunion". The single was a hit, reaching both the American and British Top 5. The album received universal acclaim, with critics praising the variety of styles and the confessional lyrics, reaching No. 4 in the U.S. and No. 1 in the
Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) created in 1979. The preceding series, "Degrassi High", ended in 1991, although a television movie, "School's Out", aired in 1992 and wrapped up the storylines of the characters. "Mother and Child Reunion" reunited some of those characters in a ten-year high school reunion, while also introducing a new generation of Degrassi Community School students: Emma Nelson, , J.T. Yorke and Toby Isaacs. The episode received mixed reviews from the mass media, with the "Ottawa Citizen" saying that it offers "nothing new to viewers familiar with the groundbreaking preceding series", and "The Seattle Times" saying it "soft-pedals through the issues", although