Styx & REO Speedwagon with special guest Loverboy coming to Orion Amphitheater

REO Speedwagon

HUNTSVILLE – The new Orion Amphitheater continues to announce more concert events planned for this year as they head towards a much-anticipated opening in May. The latest addition to the lineup features Styx & REO Speedwagon with special guest Loverboy on Sept. 13.

It’s been four years since legendary rockers REO Speedwagon and Styx joined forces for a summer co-headlining tour, this time with special guest Loverboy for the “Live & UnZoomed” tour.

Tickets for the show, produced by Live Nation, will go on sale starting Friday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. at theorionhuntsville.com. Tickets range from $134.50 to $34.50 and Orion Amphitheater email list subscribers can purchase tickets before the general public on Thursday, Feb. 17 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Styx and REO Speedwagon will be offering VIP packages via their own exclusive pre-sales beginning Monday, Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. at REOSpeedwagon.com and StyxWorld.com.

Citi is the official presale credit card of U.S. “Live & UnZoomed” tour dates. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. until Thursday, Feb. 17 at 10 p.m. through Citi Entertainment. For complete presale details, visit www.citientertainment.com.

“I can’t think of a better way of touring the USA than with good friends we’ve known for years and performed with on many a stage. What a great night of music this will be!” Styx’s Tommy Shaw  said about the tour.

REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin said, “Tommy (Shaw) and I have done a number of Zoom performances together during the pandemic, and REO and Styx are ready to go get UnZoomed, and out on the road for our fifth U.S. tour together. Add our great friends Mike Reno and the Loverboy guys, and I am totally psyched. If I wasn’t performing in it, I would totally come out to see this show. See you all, LIVE and UNZOOMED!”

A new era of hope, survival, and prosperity comes calling with the release of “Crash of the Crown”, Styx’s new “masterpiece” studio album, which was written pre-pandemic and recorded during the trying times of the pandemic.

The multi-platinum rockers–James “JY” Young (lead vocals, guitars), Tommy Shaw (lead vocals, guitars), Chuck Panozzo (bass, vocals), Todd Sucherman (drums, percussion), Lawrence Gowan (lead vocals, keyboards) and Ricky Phillips (bass, guitar, vocals)–released their 17th album June 18, 2021. They released more new music on September 17, “The Same Stardust”, originally sold as part of Record Store Day (June 12, 2021). Some of Styx’s classic hits include “Mr. Roboto,” “Man In The Wilderness,” “Miss America,” “Radio Silence,” and “Renegade.”

Formed in 1967, signed in 1971, and fronted by iconic vocalist Kevin Cronin since 1972, REO Speedwagon’s unrelenting drive, as well as non-stop touring and recording jump-started the burgeoning rock movement in the Midwest. Platinum albums and radio staples soon followed, setting the stage for the release of the band’s explosive “Hi Infidelity” in 1980, which contained the massive hit singles “Keep On Loving You” and “Take It On the Run.” That landmark album spent 15 weeks in the No. 1 slot and has since earned the RIAA’s coveted 10X Diamond Award for surpassing sales of 10 million units in the United States.

From 1977 to 1989, REO Speedwagon released nine consecutive albums all certified platinum or higher. Today, REO Speedwagon has sold more than 40 million albums around the globe, and Cronin and bandmates Bruce Hall (bass), Neal Doughty (keyboards), Dave Amato (guitar), and Bryan Hitt (drums) are still electrifying audiences worldwide in concert with hits and fan-favorites such as “Ridin’ The Storm Out,” “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” “Time For Me To Fly,” “Roll With The Changes,” “Keep On Loving You,” “Take It On the Run,” and many, many more.

For more than 40 years, Loverboy has been “Working for the Weekend” (and on the weekend), delighting audiences around the world since forming in 1979, when vocalist Mike Reno was introduced to guitar hot shot Paul Dean – both veterans of several bands on the Canadian scene – at Calgary’s Refinery Night Club. Along with Reno and Dean, Loverboy still includes original members Doug Johnson on keyboards and Matt Frenette on drums, with Ken “Spider” Sinnaeve replacing the late Scott Smith on bass.

With their trademark red leather pants, bandannas, big rock sound and high-energy live shows, Loverboy has sold more than 10 million albums, earning four multi-platinum plaques. Their string of hits includes, in addition to the anthem “Working for the Weekend,” such arena rock staples as “Lovin’ Every Minute of It,” “This Could Be the Night,” “Hot Girls in Love,” “The Kid is Hot Tonite,” “Notorious”, “Turn Me Loose,” “When It’s Over,” “Heaven In Your Eyes” and “Queen of the Broken Hearts.” In March 2009, the group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards show in Vancouver.

About Orion Amphitheater

The Orion Amphitheater, Huntsville’s newest live entertainment destination, will celebrate its opening weekend May 13-15 with The First Waltz, — a landmark event featuring many of music’s most beloved artists, all of whom have deep ties to the north Alabama region.

The outdoor space will hold 8,000 people and will be used year-round for both concerts and community events. They have plans to include farmer’s markets, art displays, theater performances, and meeting spaces for large scale gatherings. They will have different themed food and drink areas to satisfy everyone from wine and whiskey drinkers to beer and hard seltzer connoisseurs.

The area outside of the venue will be known as Apollo Park. This public park will be open year-round for people to exercise and roam freely. Only when there are specific ticketed events will the entire campus be enclosed – otherwise patrons are encouraged to utilize the grounds for their enjoyment throughout the year.

Along with building the venue with both performers and attendees in mind, they have also made sure to keep Orion Amphitheater accessible. From their Accessibility Page, they are able to provide seating, parking, sign-language interpreters, listening devices and more.

For more information, go to www.theorionhuntsville.com.