We've played 100 shows! And here comes our 101st!

From ABBA to Zeppelin, Great Moments in Vinyl has recreated and reminisced about the most popular and influential music on the planet.

And whether we’re lining up an African-American chorus to help us do justice to Paul Simon’s Graceland or hiring a string quartet to embellish those Beatles songs that need it or simply serving samples of wine from Sting’s vineyard while we pay tribute to The Police, we like to make each tribute we perform a unique and memorable experience with a wide variety of an artist’s signature songs and an assortment of intriguing stories about the music and the musicians who created it.

It’s been ten years since Great Moments in Vinyl first stepped on stage at Martyrs’ (to play Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run), and in that time we’ve made a lot of friends and enjoyed a lot of fantastic music.

We look forward to carrying on the tradition with our next 100 shows beginning with our tribute to U2’s album The Joshua Tree on Friday, February 17th at the Joliet Area Historical Museum.

Matt McGee summed up this Irish quartet perfectly in his book U2: A Diary—A Complete Day to Day History.

“Rock is about rebellion, and U2 has been doing that since 1976.  They rebelled against every rock cliché they encountered.  They cared when indifference was cool.  They went huge when rock wanted to be small.  They openly flaunted ambition, said they expected to reach the top, and didn’t stop taking care of business when they got there.”

“In 1980, Bono told Rolling Stone magazine that he believed U2 would someday have a place in rock history alongside The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who.  At the end of 2007, with 16 albums to their credit, 22 Grammy awards, more than 30 years together, close to 200 million albums sold…we can say with certainty that Bono was right.”

Come join Great Moments in Vinyl as we recognize our 101st performance with a night of U2.  You can’t find music that feels more like a celebration than that!