The Happy Together Tour to Return to Mayo Center This June

Celebrate the best music of the sixties and seventies when The Happy Together Tour returns to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, June 13 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $39-$89.

This year the tour will include six headline artists with fifty-three Billboard hits amongst them. The acclaimed yearly summer tour that is going into its 8th consecutive year delivers the best music of that time, alongside a first-class multimedia production.

The incomparable lineup includes hosts, The Turtles Featuring Flo & Eddie, The Association, Chuck Negron formerly of Three Dog Night, The Box Tops, The Cowsills and The Archies starring Ron Dante.

The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie are the signature headliners of the Happy Together tour and act as your musical hosts with their crazy antics, satire and boatload of hits. Led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, known as Flo & Eddie, The Turtles have sold over 40 million records worldwide. Their hits include: "Happy Together," "She'd Rather Be With Me," "Elenore," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "You Showed Me."

The Association is one of the most popular and successful bands to have come out of the sixties. They have sold millions of records, and have seven Grammy Award nominations. They are best known from their number one hits, "Windy," "Cherish" and "Never My Love."

Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, brings his rock star energy to the stage every night. He performs the group's biggest hits including: "Joy To The World," "Mama Told Me Not To Come," "Shambala," "One" and "Easy To Be Hard."

The Box Tops are the newest addition to the Happy Together lineup. The Box Tops recorded a string of Top 40 hits including the worldwide #1 smash song, "The Letter," and others including "Cry Like A Baby," "Soul Deep," "Neon Rainbow" and more. During the 2017 HT Tour, the The Box Tops will be celebrating their 50th anniversary, and the 50th anniversary of "The Letter."

The Cowsills have been dazzling crowds the last two years on the Happy Together tour with their effervescent brand of contagious pop magic. Bob, Paul and Susan Cowsill are a family singing group and the original inspiration for television's, The Partridge Family. Best known for songs "The Rain, The Park and Other Things," "Hair," "IndIan Lake" and "Love American Style." The Cowsills appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Rounding out the lineup and another newcomer to Happy Together is The Archies Ron Dante. Ron Dante is the lead singer for the group which is best known for the classic #1 hit of 1969, "Sugar, Sugar." Other well-known songs include "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" and "Jingle Jangle." Ron Dante had another top 10 hit in the summer of 1969 with "Tracy."

The Happy Together Tour began in 1984 with mainstays The Turtles. It started up again in 2010 and this is its 8th consecutive year. The passion for the music has withstood the test of time, and The Happy Together Tour brings that magic back to fans, night after night.

Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Mayo Performing Arts Center has been named 2016 Outstanding Historic Theatre by the League of Historic American Theatres.

Mayo Performing Arts Center is located at 100 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960. Contact the box office at (973) 539-8008 or go online at www.mayoarts.org.

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