REO Speedwagon To Headline Sioux Falls Chamber Event in October

REO Speedwagon fans will get a chance to catch their Rock & Roll heroes in Sioux Falls later this year.

The legendary band out of Champaign, Illinois will play the 118^th Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, Tuesday, October 15.

REO has been at it for more than 50 years, selling better than 40 million albums along the way.

The band first gained notoriety with a pair of Top 40 albums, You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, and Nine Lives, in the late 1970s.

But it was the 80s that saw them become rock superstars. First with Hi Infidelity, which spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. album chart in 1981, thanks to four Top 40 singles. Fueled by the popularity of their videos on MTV, REO's next two albums, Good Trouble and Wheels Are Turnin', both landed in the Top Ten.

The band has hit the Top 40 pop singles chart 13 times and gone all the way to #1 twice with 'Keep On Loving You' and 'Can't Fight This Feeling'.

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REO is led by lead singer Kevin Cronin, who rejoined the band in 1976 after a three-year absence, and bassist Bruce Hall, who has played with the band for the last 41 years.

Former Ted Nugent guitarist Dave Amato and former Graham Nash and Spencer Davis drummer Bryan Hitt both joined REO in 1989.

Original keyboardist Neal Doughty stopped touring in 2023. He's been replaced by Derek Hilland.

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