Soft-Rock Legends America to Play the Colonial

america_graphic(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, the surviving members of the folk-pop group America, whose string of hits in the early 1970s helped define that era’s soft-rock, peaceful easy feeling, perform at the Colonial Theatre on Thursday, May 28 at 7:30pm.

In the early 1970s, America rose to the top of the pop charts with a string of hits that unabashedly smoothed over the rougher edges of the sound of singers and bands including Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles by adding a pop gloss that made hits out of songs including “A Horse With No Name,” “I Need You,” “Ventura Highway,” “Tin Man,” “Lonely People,” and “Sister Golden Hair.”

Their signature harmonies and English accents hinted at the Beatles mellower balladry, and their three-part choral efforts recalled the Beach Boys, significantly just at the moment when both groups were no longer in the business of making pop hits.

Tickets to America are $125, $95 and $50. Contact the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield by calling 413-997-4444, or online .

 

 

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