The musicians storm the Styx canon: “Too Much Time on My Hands,” “Grand Illusion,” “Lady,” “Renegade.” Bassist Howard Whitman, who’s also in a Cars tribute band called You Might Think, takes the lead singing “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man).” Chuck Whitmore, owner of a marketing agency, nails the song’s soaring keyboard solos. Havana, which anchors a bustling tribute-band-based nighttime economy on New Hope’s Main Street
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Fool ing Ourselves takes the stage: six middle-age guys basically in jeans and sneakers, plus a female violinist in black leather and heels. This is a Friday-night show at a venue that has booked national acts for decades. A crowd of maybe 200 fills the club to near capacity. Inside Havana on Main Street, three keyboards (Styx!) stand among the gear arranged on a little corner stage. Actually, Fooling Ourselves and Know Return are the same guys they have two separate tribute bands. Fooling Ourselves is opening for Know Return, a tribute to prog-rock band Kansas. At Havana, a local band called Fooling Ourselves is performing the collected works of Styx. The New Hope Winery is hosting Dirty Deeds, a group of musicians from Massachusetts who authentically simulate an AC/DC concert.
On a hot Friday in July, two venues in Philadelphia’s favorite Bucks County retro-hippie river town have scheduled competing tribute-band rock shows. This is the kind of night New Hope was built for. Allman Brothers tribute band Live at the Fillmore plays Havana on August 26, 2022.
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