BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The Hooters, the Philadelphia band best known for hits 1980s hits "Day By Day" and "And We Danced," will return to Quakertown's Sounds of Summer concert series for the fourth year in a row.
"Exiting the stage the past three years, The Hooters left fans cheering and begging for their return summer after summer," said organizers of the Univest Performance Center, where the series is held, in an email.
"Well, guess what? The Sounds of Summer Concert Team is thrilled to announce The Hooters return."Quakertown's Univest Performance Center in a news release
"Well, guess what? The Sounds of Summer Concert Team is thrilled to announce The Hooters return."
The show is set for 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23.
Tickets, at $40 for lawn seats to $110 for the reserved front row, go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the Univest Performance Center web page.
The concert is the second to be announced for the Sounds of Summer series at the at the amphitheater at 301 W. Mill St.
LoCash, the duo of Preston Brust and Chris Lucas that has had three Top 10 Country chart hits, including 2016's No. 1 "I Know Somebody," will perform at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 19.
Tickets for that show, at $35 for lawn seating to $120 for front-row seats, are available on the series' webpage.
It said more concerts are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Long Lehigh Valley history
The Hooters, who combined ska, reggae and folk-rock, had seven charting hits and opened the legendary 1985 Live Aid concert in Philadelphia. Its other hits included "All You Zombies," "Johnny B" and "Satellite."
The Hooters' Sounds of Summer concert last year marked the 40th anniversary of a series of Quakertown-area teen suicides that inspired its haunting 1986 hit “Where Do The Children Go.”
The Hooters frequently played the Lehigh Valley while the band was on the rise, including Allentown’s former Zodiac Club, the former Castle Gardens at Dorney Park and Muhlenberg College, whose student radio station WMUH-FM the band has credited as among the first radio stations to play its records.
The Hooters released its debut album, "Amore," in 1983, but had its biggest success with 1985's "Nervous Night," which peaked at No. 12 and sold double-platinum.
It produced the hits "Day By Day," which peaked at No. 18, "And We Danced" which peaked at No. 21, "And We Danced" and "Where Do the Children Go."
The group's 1987 album "One Way Home" sold gold and had the hits "Johnny B" and "Satellite."
The group's most recent disc was last year's "Rocking and Swing."
Check out a review of last year's show by The Hooters in Quakertown here.
