Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Chicago to perform in Valley

Tickets for band’s Sept. 2 show in Kelowna to go on sale Friday morning

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago will perform at Prospera Place in Kelowna on the Labour Day weekend. Tickets for the Sunday, Sept. 2, show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

As part of its current tour, the band will perform the album “Chicago II” in its entirety.

The double album, nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1971, includes “Make Me Smile,” “Colour My World,” “Movin’ In,” and “25 or 6 to 4,” featured recently in the Academy Awardwinning film “I, Tonya.”

The second half of the show will include some of the band’s most recognizable songs in their six-decade career.

The current lineup of Chicago includes founding members Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Walter Parazaider, along with Keith Howland, Lou Pardini, Ray Hermann, Walfredo Reyes Jr., Daniel de los Reyes, Neil Donnell and Brett Simons.

In addition to induction into the Hall of Fame, the band was featured in a recent documentary “Now More Than Ever,” which is available on Netflix.

The documentary is a complete history of the band from the Terry Kath era to when Peter Cetera and David Foster orchestrated an unlikely comeback in the early 1980s, to surviving with new lead singers into the early 1990s.

Chicago was named in The Okanagan Weekend’s list of 10 best concerts at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton for their 2008 show.

They have played multiple dates at Prospera.

Tickets range in price from $46 to $126, plus tax and applicable service charges, and may be purchased at www.livenation.com, by phone at 250-762-5050, or in person at the Prospera Place box office.