The Ultimate Yacht Rock Experience
Now Playing in Chicago and Beyond
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Chi-ILL At The Beach
Trop Rock Music Fest, August 2 - 4, 2024
Upcoming Shows
Saturday, February, 10, 2024 at Matrix Club (The Valentine's Day Show) at 808 Route 59 in Naperville, IL
Start time @7:00pm to 11:00pm
Saturday, February, 17, 2024 at Evenflow Bar in Geneva, IL
Start time @9:00pm to 12:00am
Friday, March 15, 2024 at Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge, IL
Start time @7:30pm to 11:00pm
Friday, May 24, 2024 for the Spring Fling in Westmont at Ty Warner Park
Start time @7:00pm to 9:00pm
Friday, April 26, 2024 at Tailgaters in Bolingbrook, IL
Start time @9:00pm to 12:00am
Friday, June 7, 2024 for a Private Event at the Saddle Club in Chicago, IL
Start time @6:30pm to 9:30pm
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at the Morton Arboretum
Start time @6:30pm to 8:00pm
Friday, June 28, 2024 for the Winfield Concert Series
Start time @7:00pm to 8:30pm
Friday, July 5, 2024 for the Bartlett 4th of July Festival
Start time @7:00pm to 8:30pm
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at the Clarendon Hills Concert in the Street on Prospect Ave
Start time @7:00pm to 9:00pm
Sunday, July 21, 2024 for the Antioch Concert Series
Start time @2:00pm to 5:00pm
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 for the Bensenville Concert Series
Start time @7:00pm to 9:00pm
Thursday, July 25, 2024 for the Carol Stream Concert Series
Start time @7:00pm to 9:00pm
Thursday, August 1, 2024 for the Oak Brook, IL Concert Series
Start time @6:30pm to 8:30pm
Saturday, August 3, 2024 at the Parrot Head Summer Chill in Zion, IL
Private Event
Saturday, August 24, 2024 at St. Peter & Paul Fest in Naperville, IL
Start time @ 5:30pm to 7:30pm
August 30, 2024 at The Taste of Melrose Park, IL
Start time @ 5:30pm to 7:00pm- Main Stage
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OUR STORY
Anchors Away was founded in 2018 as a passion project of founder/band leader and percussionist Jim Pallucci. Jimmy grew up hearing all of this music on the radio and it made a lasting impression. It inspired not only his growth as a musician, but his desire to bring the live performance of these songs to audiences who share his fond and lasting memories of this golden era of popular music.
Knowing that this style can be the most technically challenging of the pop genre, Jimmy set out to recruit some of Chicagoland’s finest and most experienced musicians. Today’s lineup represents the culmination of Jimmy’s efforts to bring the best yacht rock experience to the music stages and venues of the Midwest. Anchors Away uses no “tracks” or pre-recorded music of any kind. What you hear is real music created in real time by real musicians. Every show is live, without a net!
With only a couple of years’ worth of live performances (obviously hindered by the shutdowns of 2020), Anchors Away is rapidly gathering momentum, and emerging as the premier Yacht Rock band in Illinois.
So, what is Yacht Rock you ask?
The general online consensus sums it up like this:
Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast sound, or adult-oriented rock) is a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock; one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, R&B, and disco, common stylistic traits include high-quality production, clean vocals, high musicality, and a focus on light, catchy melodies.
The songs are as light and bubbly as champagne on the high seas, yet oddly complex and intellectual.
Its name, coined in 2005 by the makers of the online video series “Yacht Rock”, was derived from its association with the popular Southern Californian leisure activity of sailing. The factors that they list as relevant to yacht rock include:
- High production value
- Use of elite Los Angeles-based studio musicians and producers associated with yacht rock
- Jazz and R&B influences
- Use of electric piano
- Complex and wry lyrics
- Lyrics about heartbroken, foolish men, particularly involving the word "fool".
- An upbeat rhythm called the "Doobie Bounce"
Anchors AWay
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“Anchors Away” is a Yacht Rock extravaganza composed of some of Chicago’s most seasoned musicians.
