CHICAGO
Mershon Auditorium
November 17
TICKETS GO ON SALE Friday, August 14 at 10AM at Ticketmaster.com
Multi-Grammy award winning band and Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago announced today that they will play Mershon Auditorium on November 17. TICKETS GO ON SALE Friday, August 14 at 10AM.
Hailed as one of the “most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s Top 125 Artists Of All Time. Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades.
Chicago received The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the GRAMMYS. The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording. Eligible since 1994, they were inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame upon their first nomination. Chicago’s first album, Chicago Transit Authority, perfectly fusing pop, rock and jazz together was
inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2014.
Robert Lamm and James Pankow became inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. The legendary songwriters wrote mega-hits “25 or 6 to 4,” “Saturday In The Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Make Me Smile,” and others. The International Trombone Association presented its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to James Pankow – the Award recognizes people who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to the trombone profession over a long career.
Chicago’s lifetime achievements include two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, Founding Artists of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor, and keys to and proclamations from an impressive list of US cities. Record sales top the 100,000,000 mark, and include 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 38 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 48 gold and platinum
awards.
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