Shellabration 2013 featuring Styx

The iconic rock band Styx will headline Shellabration 2013, Fort Dodge’s concert event of the summer. Slated for Saturday, June 22nd, the event will once again take place at the Oleson Park Bandshell in Fort Dodge. Gates open at 5:30PM with two opening acts followed by Styx at 9:30PM. Tickets for Styx go on sale Saturday, April 6th. They are $30 in advance and will increase to $35 beginning on Monday, June 10th leading up to the show on Saturday, June 22nd. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketweb.com or by phone at (866) 468-3401. Tickets will also be available for purchase at Hy-Vee and Hy-Vee Drug Store in Fort Dodge. Kids 12 years of age and under are admitted free and all tickets are general admission with first come-first serve, festival style seating. No pets, coolers or outside food or beverages are allowed inside the venue grounds. Bags and bag chairs are subject to a light search. Spawned from a suburban Chicago basement in the early 70’s, the band built a loyal local following but failed to break into the mainstream until a track from their second album entitled “Lady” began to receive substantial airplay on Chicago’s WLS-FM. That song soon was released nationally and quickly shot to number six on the singles chart. In the years that followed the band had a string of platinum certified releases (1976's Crystal Ball, 1977's The Grand Illusion, 1978's Pieces of Eight, and 1979's Cornerstone) and spawned such hit singles and classic rock radio standards as "Come Sail Away”, "Renegade”, "Blue Collar Man" and "Fooling Yourself”. Paradise Theater became Styx's biggest hit of their career (selling over three million copies in a three-year period), as they became one of the U.S. top rock acts due to such big hit singles as "Too Much Time on My Hands". It also marked the first time in history that a band released four consecutive triple-platinum albums. Styx is comprised of Tommy Shaw on guitar and vocals, James “JY” Young on guitar and vocals, Ricky P