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Yacht Rock Revival

Similar to a late-night infomercial for a “best of the 70’s” album, Yacht Rock Revue performs songs to sing along to and songs to shake your booty to…and the Yacht Rock “Revival” show was a perfect example of just that. One might wonder how a group of guys who started playing light rock from the 70’s…as somewhat of a joke…just for fun…could years later fill up a venue the size of Chastain Park Amphitheater, yet this group of talented musicians did just that.

From the moment the band started the familiar melody of the keyboard intro to “What a Fool Believes,” this crowd was on board for some smooth sailing fun (captain hats encouraged).

“LA Lindsay” was an original song that stemmed from vocalists Nicholas Niespodziani and Peter Olsen’s original band Y O U. Yacht Rock Revue’s rendition of such 70’s classics as “Good Thing,” “You Make My Dreams Come True,” “Baker Street,” “Somebody’s Baby,” and “Rich Girl” were spot-on.

Yacht Rock finished off the show by bringing everyone on stage for their rendition of Boz Scaggs song “Lido.” All in all a good night was had by all, guest stars included. Here is what Bobby Kinball from Toto had to say:

“I just played a concert with “The Yacht Rock Review” (check out this band) in Atlanta at Chastain Park Amphitheater. Even though it rained a little bit that day, and a bit during the concert, everyone stayed, and I could easily tell they had so much fun. I was the last singer with them, and the other singers were Bill Champlin (Chicago), Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special), Robbie Dupree, Elliot Lurie (Looking Glass), & Walter Egan. This band is fantastic, and I promise you would love to hear them, because they all sing, and play their instruments so well.The Amphitheater was totally full, and what a fun night everyone had.”

• Chastain Park Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA
• July 20, 2013

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The accidental success of Yacht Rock Revue

One night in 2008, singers Nicholas Niespodziani and Peter Olson and drummer Mark Cobb, then members of the Atlanta-based indie rock band Y-O-U, showed up to their weekly residency at 10 High with an unusual set list. “As a gag, we thought we’d play cheesy soft rock hits from the 1970s, stuff that you’d hear in the dentist’s office,” says Niespodziani. The fans ate it up, so they did it again. And again. It wasn’t long before Y-O-U had given way to Yacht Rock Revue.

Today the Atlanta tribute band/comedy troupe has become a booming business. On August 22, the act returns to Piedmont Park for the fifth annual Yacht Rock Revival, where thousands of so-called Nation of Smooth faithful sing along to hits from Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and other soft rock icons—some of whom show up to play alongside the band. To keep up with booking demands, they’ve even spawned Yacht Rock Schooner, a second cover act. Recently Niespodziani discussed their career trajectory.

On playing alongside recording artists like Robbie Dupree, Firefall, and Journey singer Steve Augeri . . . They come and they realize that while we’re not taking ourselves seriously, we are taking the music seriously. We approach Little River Band as if it’s AC/DC.

On accidentally reuniting the Atlanta band Starbuck . . . Jimmy Cobb, the bass player in Starbuck, played with us a few times, and we put him and another former band member on the poster for the 2012 show. Before the gig, the band’s singer, Bruce Blackman, showed up with our flyer in his hand, asking, “What is this?” He was a little pissed. Backstage, these guys talked for the first time in 30 years. Bruce came on stage that night, and the next year they got the whole band back together.

On being named both “Best Overall Music Act in Atlanta” and “Best Place to Get Drunk With Your Dad” . . . We’re pretty proud of the “Drunk with Your Dad” distinction. We actually had a fan in Charlotte who came up to us with his pregnant wife and said, “Oh man, we got pregnant the last time you were here. We went in the club’s bathroom while you guys were on stage!” Clearly, we’re setting a mood.

On the calendar: On August 22, coast to the smooth sounds of easy-listening at Yacht Rock Revival at Piedmont Park. pleaserock.com

This article originally appeared in our August 2015 issue.

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 Yacht Rock Revival is putting the 'class' back into classics.

WHAT'S YACHT ROCK?

We at Yacht Rock Revival are paying tribute to the definition of 70's light rock, collecting our favourite sounds, songs and grooves from an era when 'smooth' meant everything. If you've ever heard the Doobie Brothers fronted by Michael McDonald doing "What A Fool Believes", that's Yacht Rock.  

These songs are as memorable as a sunset on the Santa Monica pier as you walk along with your baby, holding hands, your matching gold-tone bracelets jingling as the ocean breeze caresses your moustache, and the two of you stare out into the ever-deepening blue to think, in tandem: "Yeah, this is how it should always be".

You might have been a closet Yacht Rock fan all along and just didn't know it. It's slicker than slick, enormously well-played music, from the melodically clever to the harmonically unexpected.  Yacht Rock is soulful, well-constructed music that just makes people happy.

Just remember to hold on to your captain's hat because this music is so breezy and smooth, it might just blow you away!

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‘People Don’t Let Go of These Songs’: The Surprising Evolution of the Yacht Rock Revue

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“If you asked me five years ago to do a full original album with this band, I’d say, ‘Tear my heart out and leave it on the floor,'” Yacht Rock Revue singer Nick Niespodziani says.

It’s hard to tell if he’s being hyperbolic.

The 41-year-old frontman of the Atlanta-based tribute band has always been conflicted about his gum-chewing, polyester-wearing, hair-feathering throwback group. In his eyes, it was a way to make a living, not a serious creative outlet. Besides, he had other projects to flex that muscle, like the psychedelic and experimental rock of Indianapolis Jones. But as he slowly came to accept, nothing had the reach of Yacht Rock Revue.

Since forming in 2008, the seasoned party band has graduated into a national touring act, packing clubs, anchoring corporate events, and setting sail on themed cruises with their note-perfect re-creations of soft-rock’s smoothest jams, from “Brandy” by Looking Glass and “Lido Shuffle” by Boz Scaggs to Ace’s “How Long” and Toto’s irrepressible “Africa.” (Yacht Rock Revue cut it well before Weezer did .) Their crowds are far from passive too, buying tickets in advance and showing up in boat shoes, ascots, and aviators to recite aloud the sacred texts of saints Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald , and Robbie Dupree. Captain’s hats are ubiquitous.

It’s not an oldies fan base either. “Kids, young people, are the ones who have adopted this music, and they’re there to have a good time,” says Dupree, who often performs his 1980 hit “Steal Away” with the band at their all-star “Yacht Rock Revival” shows. “The audience looks like they used to [when these records first came out] — only you got older. But it’s more exciting now because these people know every single song in the show.”

Still, Niespodziani could never fully get on board the boat he helped build. When he and the band took a stab at releasing original material in 2012 with the on-the-nose “Can’t Wait for Summer,” they did so sheepishly. “Our hearts weren’t all the way in it,” he says now. “We were kind of apologetic about it.”

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As pop music evolved over the past eight years, however, so did Niespodziani’s perception of Yacht Rock Revue. The songs that make up the band’s set lists are now celebrated, “Yacht Rock” has transcended its gag tag to become a legitimate subgenre, and the icons of the scene are getting long-overdue recognition — in May, the Doobie Brothers will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Most important, Niespodziani peered over his onstage shades and recognized the happiness that he and his group were bringing to their crowds.

“When we started out, I wasn’t super proud of being in a cover band,” he says, “but as we’ve done this, I’ve seen that joy in people, which changed my thinking and changed my heart about it, and made me open to the vulnerability of doing an original album.”

In February, the seven-piece band of fortysomething musicians — along with Niespodziani, there’s fellow vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Peter Olson, bassist Greg Lee, sax player Dave Freeman, guitarist Mark Dannells, drummer Mark Cobb, and keys man Mark Bencuya — released its first full-length album of original music, Hot Dads in Tight Jeans . Like their live show, which features a vintage boutique’s worth of loud shirts and the titular constricting denim, there’s an element of humor to the record. But the 10 tracks aren’t parodies or goofs.

Songs like “The Doobie Bounce” and “Step,” with their layered production and Niespodziani’s sky-high falsetto, transform the staid notion of yacht rock — or, more broadly, soft rock — into something immersive and, dare one say, hip and cool. These are tracks that could slide in comfortably next to anything off Tame Impala’s latest, The Slow Rush . The sounds and tones employed by Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker actually served as validation for Niespodziani.

“We finished recording this album and were mixing it in spring and summer, and that’s when Tame Impala started to leak tracks from their new album,” he says. “They were really similar to the sounds we had on our record, and that made me feel really encouraged, that the sound that we had was not going to be throwaway or irrelevant.”

Olson, Niespodziani’s onstage foil in choreography (they’re experts at re-creating Paul Simon and Chevy Chase’s “You Can Call Me Al” routine ), says the band aimed to expand the boundaries of what yacht rock is, or could be, while in the studio.

“We felt free to redefine the genre a little bit, as more of an attitude than a sound,” Olson, also 41, says. “We weren’t tied to just having Rhodes pianos and super-lush harmonies and sax solos, but there are elements of that. We weren’t afraid to sing about something meaningful and not just piña coladas. Although there is a song about tequila, so…”

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“Bad Tequila,” with its pithy, made-for-merch payoff line — “when life gives you bad tequila/make a good margarita” — is insanely catchy but modern, more in line with something by Portugal. The Man and Daft Punk than Seals and Croft or Loggins and Messina. Yes, it has a yachty sax breakdown, but the woodwind fits in just as naturally as one of Lizzo’s flute solos .

The band credits producer Ben Allen with helping them connect the dots between yesteryear’s soft rock and contemporary flourish. The track “Another Song About California” opens with a synth line that nods to Hall and Oates’ “She’s Gone” before spiraling off on its own psych-pop journey.

“Ben has been instrumental in finding the middle ground between staying true to what the band has always done in the yacht-rock vibe, but not being afraid to make a record that could fit in a playlist with Justin Timberlake or Lizzo,” says Niespodziani, who also challenged the way the band approaches its lyrics. He used yacht-rock buzzwords (think “sand,” “ocean,” “sun,” and “girl”) as a gateway to convey deeper thoughts and mindsets.

“I’d take little nuggets of the yacht-rock vibe or culture and look at it through my own lens,” he says, citing “The Doobie Bounce.” “That song sneaks in little nods to nihilism and things that have meaning to me.”

Currently on a U.S. tour with gigs scheduled at the Wiltern in L.A., Webster Hall in New York, and the House of Blues in Boston, Niespodziani, Olson and the band are hopeful that their core fans will embrace the “new” yacht rock. They’ve already been slotting “Step” and “Bad Tequila” alongside perennials like “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” and “Baker Street.” Who knows — perhaps their own 21st-century yacht jams will one day become a part of the genre’s core canon.

After years spent wondering and worrying when the yacht-rock wave would crash, Niespodziani and Olson have come to just enjoy the ride.

“We always thought the fad would end. But people don’t let go of these songs. It’s evident in the way that doctors’ offices, Home Depots, and Bed Bath & Beyonds haven’t let go of these songs either,” says Olson. “These are the playlists of public areas.”

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Yacht Rock Revue at Cadence Bank Amphitheatre

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This 2023, one of the most sensational purveyors of yacht rock will be delivering a series of incredible live shows across North America! Yacht Rock Revue has always been one of the most anticipated retro revival rock groups with their high-energy shows and exemplary tight sets! This summer, the band will be kicking off the much-awaited outing called the Reverse Sunset Tour! This much-awaited trek will cover over 30 shows across the U.S. and bring in a number of select special guests! On Friday, 25th August 2023, Yacht Rock Revue will make a coveted stop at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia! Fans can expect the iconic band to deliver many of their remarkable hits, like “Step,” “Give Me the Night,” “Float,” and many more! If you’re keen on taking a nostalgic trip to the ‘70s and ‘80s, hurry and score your tickets before they’re gone!

Yacht Rock Revue’s 2023 outing, Reverse Sunset Tour, will provide soft rock fans with their yacht rock fix! Kicking off in July, the band will embark on a 38-show tour spread across summer, fall, and winter! Fans who loved Kenny Loggins, Micahel Mcdonald, Stephen Day, Dan Fogelberg, and more can see the amazing high-energy set performed by the Atlanta-born seven-member group. Their music style is reminiscent of the songs beloved by music fans decades ago. Yacht rock has been categorized for their tendencies towards soft rock mixed with a variety of other genres, such as R&B, jazz, contemporary, and pop, among others.

The Reverse Sunset Tour is slated to feature a rotating list of special guests, comprising soft rock legends like Kenny Loggins, Pablo Cruise, Richard Marx, and more. On Friday, 25th August 2023, Yacht Rock Revue brings along Pablo Cruise as their featured guest. Hence, fans can absolutely look forward to a jam-packed evening with career-spanning hits!

Since emerging in 2007, Yacht Rock Revue has been the hometown music hero in Atlanta. Initially a side project, the band scored numerous weekly gigs in local clubs. The setlist primarily consists of iconic ‘70s and ‘80s rock hits – which have been coined “Yacht Rock,” named after the 2000s web series that features the same type of music. The band became one of the most prolific live performers to come out of Georgia. Yacht Rock Revue has been recorded to perform over 100 shows a year across various cities, including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Boston, and many more.

Over the years, the band has covered fantastic hits by their idols. However, they finally dropped their debut album with all original tracks, Hot Dads in Tight Jeans. The 2020 album contains outstanding singles, such as “Doobie Bounce,” “Step,” “Bad Tequila,” “Song for Another Night,” and more. Last year, the band released a string of new singles, “Float,” “Give Me the Night,” and “Snow.” Fans are speculating that there is an upcoming studio effort in the works. In the meantime, you can definitely look forward to the band performing these new hits on their upcoming Reverse Sunset Tour.

Hurry and score tickets now to see the sensational Yacht Rock Revue performing their incredible hits and fan favorites at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre! Grab your tickets for the Reverse Sunset Tour by clicking on the Get Tickets link now!

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What is left for Yacht Rock Revue to prove? This top-notch group of musicians has already rocked onstage with John Oates, Eddie Money (RIP), and both versions of the band Player. They’ve trademarked the term “yacht rock,” both metaphorically and literally (U.S. Registration Number 3834195). From humble beginnings in a basement, touring in partnership with Live Nation and Sirius XM, they now headline sold-out shows across the country, from Webster Hall in New York to the Wiltern in L.A. While rising from bars to amphitheaters, they’ve ticked every box on the Rock Star Accomplishments bingo card. Except for one: Writing and singing their own songs. Yacht Rock Revue’s first original record is ten songs inspired by the smoooooth sounds of the Seventies and Eighties. They’ve brazenly titled it Hot Dads In Tight Jeans – forgive them for bragging, but that’s what they are – and it returns Yacht Rock Revue to their roots in original music.

“I had a midlife crisis. That’s why we made this album,” says Nick Niespodziani, the group’s singer, guitarist, and spiritual leader. “Everyone in the band is a dad now, so we needed to make this happen, before we become grandpas. I’ve sung ‘Escape’ by Rupert Holmes at least a thousand times, and if that isn’t paying your dues, I don’t know what is.”

It’s rare that musicians in their 40s chase their rock star dreams. You’d have to be crazy to try. YRR knew they were underdogs, but resolved to take one more shot at the Top 40, and maybe even become a Cinderella story of midlife fulfillment. Yacht Rock Revue began in the least-yachtiest of states, 2,000 miles from breezy Marina del Rey. Niespodziani and Pete Olson met in the fourth grade in suburban Indiana, went on to Indiana University in the late Nineties, formed the band Y-O-U, then escaped – Rupert Holmes reference intended – to Atlanta. One night, Y-O-U tucked their tongues deep in their cheeks and played a show of Yacht Rock songs. The rowdy (a nice way of saying drunk), sold-out crowd loved it.

When the club owner asked them to do it again, Niespodziani didn’t want to. But the club owner had an ace up his sleeve: money. Over the years, YRR (there’s also a Dave, a Greg, and literally three guys named Mark) have turned themselves into human wine spritzers, playing 120 to 150 shows a year, mastering Yacht Rock’s slick chords and mellow grooves, and partying like it’s 1979. What began as a joke among friends soon put a ripple in the zeitgeist, starting a national trend through YRR’s concerts, lauded as “unabashedly joyous affairs” by Entertainment Weekly. They accumulated an extensive wardrobe of white belts and polyester shirts. Yacht Rock Revue were revered and well-compensated! Their life was a tenor sax solo! This is what every musician wants.

But even as YRR was sailing the smooth seas of tribute-band superstardom, and the band members all became dads, Niespodziani was still writing original songs. These new tunes had the spirit of Yacht Rock, but were more modern – akin to Phoenix or Air, the hip bands that adapted Yacht for a younger audience. They brought the songs to a hot producer, Ben Allen, who’s worked with Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Neon Indian. Allen gave the songsa lustrous shine, for both new audiences and their ever-loyal fans, the Nation of Smooth. Niespodziani and Olson even co-wrote a song, “Big Bang,” with Yacht Rock master Matthew Wilder, famous for his massive 1983 hit “Break My Stride.”

“Step,” the record’s first single, is a peppy number replete with falsetto and bumping bass, a cross between the Bee Gees and Steely Dan’s “Peg.” It’s also the mission statement for the album in a way, because it’s about deciding who you want to be, and making space for that in your life. The seven-piece band display tight chops, and the songs incorporate Yacht Rock Revue’s sense of humor, especially on the funky, pro-margarita “Bad Tequila,” the flute-fired “Another Song About California,” and opening track “The Doobie Bounce,” where Niespodziani brags, “I used to sleep on couches/Now I sleep on nicer couches.”

Hot Dads In Tight Jeans is as plush and shiny as Kenny Loggins’ beard. And YRR are already dropping these new songs into their sets, to great response from longtime fans who are thrilled to hear new smooth. While others in YRR’s position stick with the tried-and-true, Niespodziani hopes the album will let them welcome aboard new fans, too. To paraphrase a notable mariner… they’re gonna need a bigger yacht. “Here’s how I see it,” Niespodziani concludes, sliding into a waiting limousine. “We have only one fewer hit than Player did, and Player is immortal. We built this Yacht Rock thing on the power of memories and good vibes. None of that is changing; we’re just gonna make a few new memories as well.”

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Somerset Amphitheater | Somerset, WI

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Ruoff Music Center | Noblesville, IN

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Riverbend Music Center | Cincinnati, OH

Credit union 1 amphitheatre | tinley park, il.

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Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls, OH

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Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - St. Louis, MO | Maryland Heights, MO

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Starlight Theatre | Kansas City, MO

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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | Bethel, NY

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Freedom Mortgage Pavilion | Camden, NJ

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Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater | Wantagh, NY

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BankNH Pavilion | Gilford, NH

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Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview | Syracuse, NY

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PNC Bank Arts Center | Holmdel, NJ

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Xfinity Theatre | Hartford, CT

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Xfinity Center | Mansfield, MA

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Jiffy Lube Live | Bristow, VA

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Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach | Virginia Beach, VA

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Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek | Raleigh, NC

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PNC Music Pavilion | Charlotte, NC

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Live Oak Bank Pavilion | Wilmington, NC

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Oak Mountain Amphitheatre | Birmingham, AL

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Ameris Bank Amphitheatre | Alpharetta, GA

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FirstBank Amphitheater | Franklin, TN

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MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds | Tampa, FL

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iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre | West Palm Beach, FL

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Daily's Place | Jacksonville, FL

The wharf amphitheater | orange beach, al, the cynthia woods mitchell pavilion presented by huntsman | woodlands, tx.

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Dos Equis Pavilion | Dallas, TX

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Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre (formerly USANA Amp) | West Valley City, UT

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White River Amphitheatre | Auburn, WA

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Hayden Homes Amphitheater | Bend, OR

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RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater | Ridgefield, WA

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Toyota Amphitheatre | Wheatland, CA

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Shoreline Amphitheatre | Mountain View, CA

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Kia Forum | Inglewood, CA

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North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre | Chula Vista, CA

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Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre | Phoenix, AZ

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SiriusXM Presents Yacht Rock Revue: Reverse Sunset Tour   

SiriusXM Presents Yacht Rock Revue: Reverse Sunset Tour 

(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

The Stone Pony Summer Stage

913 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park NJ 07712

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Yacht Rock Revue at Clyde Theatre, Fort Wayne, IN, USA

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• It Keeps You Runnin'
• Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
• Somebody's Baby
• Breezin'
• Sister Golden Hair
• Southern Cross
• Thunder Island

Yacht Rock Revue at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, FL, USA

Yacht rock revue at florida theatre, jacksonville, fl, usa.

• Breezin' / Guilty
• Give a Little Bit

Yacht Rock Revue at Columbia County Performing Arts Center, Evans, GA, USA

• Your Smiling Face

Yacht Rock Revue at House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

• Dancing in the Moonlight
• Do It Again
• Lonesome Loser
• Heart to Heart

Yacht Rock Revue at Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA, USA

• Deck the Halls
• What a Fool Believes
• You Make My Dreams
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Frosty the Snowman
• Sleigh Ride

Yacht Rock Revue at Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC, USA

• Ride Like the Wind
• Raspberry Beret
• Night Fever
• Bette Davis Eyes
• Lido Shuffle
• Smooth Operator
• Biggest Part of Me
• Baker Street

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• Africa ( 128 )
• Somebody's Baby ( 106 )
• Escape (The Piña Colada Song) ( 104 )
• Heart to Heart ( 104 )

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