{"id":34949,"date":"2024-08-15T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=34949"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:06:38","slug":"zz-top-tribute-to-play-town-park-as-concert-series-winds-down-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/zz-top-tribute-to-play-town-park-as-concert-series-winds-down-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZ Top Tribute to play Town Park as Concert series winds down for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fandango: A Tribute to ZZ Top will play Town Park next Wednesday, August 21, as Aurora\u2019s Concerts in the Park summer series prepares to bow for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFandango pays homage to ZZ Top, celebrating their powerhouse legacy,\u201d says the Town of its penultimate concert of the season. \u201cMore than a concert, Fandango promises an unforgettable night of \u2018Texas boogie\u2019, nostalgia and timeless rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon your beard and sunglasses for a Texas-sized tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fandango is the brainchild of producer Garry Licach, who has helped bring several concerts to the park this season, including Material Girls on August 14, and the ever-popular Abbamania, which will bring down the curtain on August 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these and all of the shows, he prides himself on bringing together artists and the technical expertise to ensure each sound and note is as authentic as possible to each hit\u2019s original recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFandango is three different guys all together with all the hits, and when they take the stage the crowd goes crazy,\u201d he says. \u201cThey sound the part, they look the part \u2013 the beards, the costumes, the everything! One minute to show time, I look out and say, \u2018Buckle up, everybody. We\u2019re going downtown.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m the engineer and those bands sound exactly like the record. We sell out Massey Hall, Roy Thomson Hall. Tribute bands don\u2019t play there, but these shows do. The vocals set them apart. Close your eyes and you\u2019ll think [it\u2019s the original artists]. I have been an engineer for 57 years and even at Massey Hall, I don\u2019t let anybody mix my shows because they just don\u2019t get what the record sounded like. They didn\u2019t know where to cross over the vocals at a certain range, how to get that radio bass sound because when you\u2019re playing in your car, bass is the loudest thing\u2026everything else is filler. All the other bands I see, everything else is just loud; the volume is the trick here. We want people to go, \u2018Holy s—, that sounds just like the record,\u2019 and that\u2019s what we\u2019re known for \u2013 exactly reproducing each artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To experience it yourself head out to Town Park next Wednesday, August 21, and go over the \u201cTop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerts in the Park take place each Wednesday night from 7 \u2013 9 p.m. at Town Park through to the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vendors for food and other goods begin setting up at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerts are free, but donations to the Aurora Food Pantry are encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on the 2024 Concerts in the Park lineup, visit aurora.ca\/summerconcerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fandango: A Tribute to ZZ Top will play Town Park next Wednesday, August 21, as Aurora\u2019s Concerts in the Park summer series prepares to bow for 2024. \u201cFandango pays homage to ZZ Top, celebrating their powerhouse legacy,\u201d says the Town of its penultimate concert of the season. \u201cMore than a concert, Fandango promises an unforgettable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-95H","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 08:05:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}