The Ultimate Yacht Rock Experience
Now Playing in Chicago and Beyond
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2025 Upcoming Shows
Saturday, March 15th @ Ballydoyles in Downers Grove
Start time @ 9 to 12pm
Friday, March 28th @ Stage 119 in Elmhurst
Start time @ 8 to 11pm
Friday, April 25th @ Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge
Start time @ 8 to11pm
Friday, May 2nd @ Tailgaters in Bolingbrook
Start time @ 9 to12pm
Friday, May 30th @ Saddle Cycle club in Chicago
Private Events
Saturday, June 21st @ Downers Grove Rotary Fest
Start time @ 5 to 6:30pm
Friday, June 27th @ Jonny Cabs in Burr Ridge
Start time @ 8 to11pm
Tuesday, July 1st @ Fishel Park in Downers Grove
Start time & 6 to 8pm
Saturday, July 5th in Crystal Lake
Start time @ 12:30 to 3:30pm
Friday, July 11th in Mount Prospect at the Fridays Concert on the Green
Start time @ 6:30 to 7:30pm
Saturday July 12th @ Indiana Beach, Monticello Indiana
Wednesday, July 16th Arlington Heights Park District @ North School Park 410 N Arlington Heights Rd.
Start time & 7 to 8:30pm
Monday, July 28th at the Schaumburg Library Concert Series
Thursday, July 31st @ Oakbrook Park District
Start time & 6:30 to 8:30pm
Friday, August 1st @ Buffalo Grove Park District
Start time & 6:30 to 8:30pm
Saturday, August 2nd at Taste of Orland Park
Start time & 3 to 4:00pm
Saturday, August 2nd @ Lombard Cruise Night
Start time & 6:00 to 9:00pm
Thursday, August 7th at the Countyside Concert in the Park
Friday, August 8th at the Woodstock Opera House Band Shell
Start time @ 7 to 9pm
Friday, August 22nd @ Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge
Start time & 8 to 11pm
Saturday, August 23rd @ Holy Name Parish in Shorewood, 600 Brook Forest Avenue
Start time & 6 to 7:30pm
Friday, October 31st Halloween Party @ Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge
Start time & 8 to 11pm
Friday, September 5th at Oakbrook Terrace Concert Series
Start time & 8:30 to 10pm
Friday, September 26th at the Belfry Theater in Delavan, Wisconsin
Saturday, September 27th at the Belfry Theater in Delavan, Wisconsin
Friday October 31st Halloween Party Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge
Saturday, December 27th at Johnny Cabs in Burr Ridge
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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"
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“Anchors Away” is a Yacht Rock extravaganza composed of some of Chicago’s most seasoned musicians.
