Spectacle Live will present Beginnings – A Celebration of the Music of Chicago on Saturday, November 28 at 7:30 pm at The JPT Film & Event Center in Newport

Spectacle Live will present Beginnings – A Celebration of the Music of Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at The JPT Film & Event Center.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 14, at 10 a.m. at JanePickens.com or by phone at 1-800-657-8774.

The tribute act performs the catalog of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago, a band whose five-decade run produced five No. 1 albums and more than 20 top-ten hits. The set list draws on songs including “25 or 6 to 4,” “Saturday in the Park,” “Make Me Smile,” “Color My World,” “You’re the Inspiration” and “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.”

Spectacle Live, founded in 2012, books and manages more than a dozen venues across New England from offices in Lexington and Lowell, Mass., and Laconia, N.H.

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