Quakertown's Univest Center announces hard rockers, yacht rockers as first headliners for Sounds of Summer series

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — A band that in the mid-2010s had two albums that topped the Hard Rock chart was announced Wednesday as the first act for Univest Performance Center's summer concert series.

And a Los Angeles band that plays the 1970s and '80s soft rock sounds of the Yacht Rock trend was the second announced for the Sounds of Summer series.

Black Stone Cherry, which is observing the 20th anniversary of its self-titled debut album and is best known for its hits "Lonely Train" and "White Trash Millionaire," will perform at 8 p.m. July 10 on the Univest stage, at 301 W. Mill St.

And Yächtley Crëw, which is known for wearing nautical attire on stage, will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 23, it was announced.

Tickets, at $56.99 for lawn seating and $67.53-$162.39 for reserved seats for Black Stone Cherry and $35.91 for lawn and $40.12-$67 for Yächtley Crëw, go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13 at the Univest Performance Center website.

The two will be among the lineup for the venue's 10th Sounds of Summer series.

Twenty-two Rock chart hits

Black Stone Cherry in 2006 released its debut album, which broke the Top 100 on Billboard's overall Albums chart and produced three Top 30 Mainstream Rock hits: "Lonely Train," "Hell and High Water" and "Rain Wizard."

Its sophomore disc, 2008's "Folklore and Superstition," broke the Top 30 on the overall albums chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, with the Top 25 hits "Blind Man" and "Please Come In."

And 2011's "Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea," did even better, climbing to No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock chart and producing four Top 5 Mainstream Rock hits, including "White Trash Millionaire" and the group's highest-charting hit, "In My Blood," which peaked at No. 10.

But it was 2014's "Magic Mountain" and 2016's "Kentucky" that gave the group its biggest success.

Both discs hit No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart and between them produced five Top 40 Mainstream Rock hits.

The 2018 disc "Family Tree" peaked at No. 7 on the Mainstream Rock albums chart and had the Top 40 hit "Bad Habit," but it was the group's last disc to chart in the United States.

But the group continued to have Mainstream Rock charting hits, including 2024's "When the Pain Comes" — its fourth-highest-charting song at No. 16 — and last year's title song from its latest disc, the EP "Celebrate."

In all, the group has had 22 Top 40 Mainstream Rock hits.

The group has three of its four original members, including vocalist and lead guitarist Chris Robertson.

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Keeping '70s, '80s soft rock alive

Yächtley Crëw formed in 2017 and in 2022, signed a record deal with Jimmy Buffet-owned Mailboat Records.

The group released its debut album, "Seas the Day," in 2023. In 2024, it released a Christmas mini-album, "Seas and Greetings," and last year released its most recent, "Seas the Night."

The group has played residencies at the Las Vegas Palms casino for three years running, and in 2024 appeared in the HBO yacht rock documentary "Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary."

Yacht Rock has become a phenomenon to once again share the soft rock for decades past.

Yächtley Crëw also played the Sounds of Summer series last year.

The Sounds of Summer series last year offered seven concerts.

They also included 1970s and '80s radio-rock bands Three Dog Night and Little River Band, nine-time Grammy Award-nominated country singer Jamey Johnson and country music singer Dylan Scott.