------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 15, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------- Source: Allentown Fair Press Release http://allentownfairpa.org/html/4-15-04.html The answer’s ‘YES’ to who’s playing September 3 at The Great Allentown Fair Tickets for YES, Lynyrd Skynyrd shows to go on sale Saturday, April 24 For Release: Friday, April 16, 2004 Contact: Phone: 610-433-7541 Fax: 610-433-4005 Email: Info@allentownfair.com Allentown, Pa. — It's affirmative— The Great Allentown Fair has announced that the rock group YES will play at the fairgrounds' grandstand concert venue on Friday, September 3. Tickets for this show as well as the previously announced fair concert Lynyrd Skynryd with special guest 38 Special will go on sale at the fair's box office on Saturday, April 24. During its 35 years of performing what some refer to as "progressive" and others call "art" rock, YES has reconfigured its band membership line-up many times. The musicians coming to the fair-lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, lead guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Rick Wakeman and drummer Alan White-combine for as classic and talented a grouping of YES members ever assembled. On this tour honoring YES's 35th Anniversary, the grand scale light show and stage set will remind fans of years past. Artist and visual collaborator Roger Dean, who is responsible for the distinctive YES art designs, created the set. YES members Anderson and Squire met in their native Great Britain in 1968 and with their shared fondness of Simon & Garfunkel, The Fifth Dimension and the Byrds, decided to form a musical group that would rely more on melody, lyrics and vocal harmonies than a dominant R&B beat. By 1972, Howe and Wakeman joined the band as it made the leap across the pond to American success. Hit singles "Roundabout" and "Long Distance Runaround" from the band's fourth album "Fragile" introduced fans to the "YES sound" that the band coined. The 1973 greatest hits collection "Yessongs" sealed the band's renown. Drummer White joined the band in 1974, the last year of a three-year period that produced the imaginative albums and their accompanying stage tours-"Close To the Edge," "Tales From Topographic Oceans" and "Relayer." After a bit of a drought, the late Seventies saw hit song "Wondorous Stories" and two more albums. The Eighties marked the beginning of band members pursuing other projects and musical groupings. Steve Howe formed Asia, known as a super-group of musicians. Anderson and Wakeman took a short breather, but Squire and White stayed under the YES flag and hit it big in 1983 with the song "Owner Of A Lonely Heart." The Nineties saw two YES versions, the official group that included Squire and a unit called Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe. The YES of the new millennium is the classic grouping that will perform at the fair. In its 35 year history, YES has 32 albums to its credit. Reserved seats are available on the track (floor seating) immediately in front of the stage and in the grandstand that provides tiered-covered seating for both the YES and Lynyrd Skynyrd/38 Special concerts. The ticket price is $39 for each show and includes fair admission when purchased in advance. Tickets are still available for three previously announced fair concerts-Kenny Chesney with special guest Uncle Kracker, ZZ Top and Rascal Flatts with special guest Chris Cagle. For more information call 610-433-7541 or visit the Fair Web site at www.allentownfairpa.org. Close Window YesInThePress.com For site comments, inquiries, corrections, or additions, contact yitp@yesservices.com