The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys
with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Tickets: $60 and $40 (incl. GST)


THE BOYS ARE BACK AND THEY’RE SURFIN’ SOEC!

 Penticton, BC: What better way to prepare for our balmy Okanagan weather than by bringing rock and surf legends, The Beach Boys!

The Beach Bums Bundle pairs up 4 tickets from the regularly priced $40.00 section for a cool $148 at the Box Office, or $155 by phone and online. No additional cash is needed, the Bundle includes all facility and service charges. Additional convenience charges may apply depending on chosen delivery method.

This is no cover band: Mike Love heads up the gang alongside Beach Boys vet, Bruce Johnston; Mike Kowalski (drums), Christian Love (guitar/vocals), Randell Kirsch (guitar/vocals), Chris Farmer (bass/vocals), Tim Bonhomme (keyboards/vocals), John Cowsill of The Cowsills (keyboards/ vocals/percussion) and Scott Totten (guitar/vocals) round out the band.

The Beach Boys continue to create and perform with the same bold imagination and style that marked their explosive debut 40 years ago. Even more than the Beatles, The Beach Boys found through their music the key to unfading youth—and they made copies for everyone. To these guys, the beach isn’t just a place where the surf comes to play—it’s where life is renewed and made whole again.

Captained by Mike Love, The Beach Boys play an astoundingly busy schedule of concerts, averaging 150 shows a year; in 1974 Mike Love’s concept album Endless Summer ignited a second generation of Beach Boys fans and stirred a tempest that rocked the music world.

Few, if any, acts can match The Beach Boys’ concert presence, spirit and performance.  They were centre-stage at Live Aid, multiple Farm Aids, the Statue of Liberty’s 100^th Anniversary Salute, the Super Bowl, the Olympics and the White House. On one day alone—July 4, 1985—they played to nearly 2 million fans at shows in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.

Love’s role as the band’s front man sometimes overshadows his stature as one of rock’s foremost songwriters. “Surfin’,” The Beach Boys’ first hit came from his pen. With his cousin, Brian Wilson, Love wrote the classics “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “California Girls” and the Grammy nominated “Good Vibrations.”  Years later, he showed he still had the lyrical chops by co-writing the irresistible and chart-topping “Kokomo.”