Legendary Band Chicago to Perform at HOOTERS 40th Anniversary

Legendary Band Chicago to Perform at HOOTERS 40th Anniversary

As a thank you to Hooters customers for their support for 40 years, HOOTERS is bringing the legendary rock band Chicago to Clearwater for a good cause.

HOOTERS, along with the City of Clearwater are holding a benefit concert for Breast Cancer Research.  The Grammy award-winning group will be playing at The Sound at Coachman Park on October 7^th.  Proceeds from the Breast Cancer Research benefit concert will be donated to Moffitt Cancer Center and Morton Plant Mease Hospitals. 

Pre-sale tickets are on sale now through Friday, March 17^th at 10:00am with promo code HOOTERS40. Ticket prices are $40, $25, and $9.  Tickets to the general public will be available on Friday, March 17^th at 10:00am. All tickets can be purchased on RuthEckerdHall.com. 

Chicago, the Grammy Award winning band is known for songs You’re The Inspiration and Hard to Say I’m Sorry and many more hits. 

“We are looking forward to Chicago performing and raising funds for breast cancer research.  Since our first week in business on October 4, 1983 giving back to our community has been a priority.  We have raised and donated millions over the past 40 years. We are proud to give back and celebrate HOOTERS 40^th Anniversary with the wonderful communities that have welcomed us for decades,” said HMC Hospitality Group CEO Neil Kiefer. 

The benefit concert is one of many ways Hooters will be celebrating all year. In honor of the anniversary, on the fourth of every month HOOTERS is also hosting “throwback” events bringing the 80’s back.  The next event will kick off on Tuesday, April 4th at the Tampa Bay and Chicagoland HOOTERS locations.  As a thank you to their customers, Hooters in Tampa Bay and Chicagoland will be offering wings for only 83 cents on the 4^th of every month. There will be several in store specials throughout the year, featuring seafood specials and $19.83 crab legs. 

HOOTERS was created and fittingly incorporated on April Fool’s Day in 1983 by six businessmen L.D. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, “Uncle Billy” Ranieri, Ed Droste, Dennis Johnson and Ken Wimmer.  Soon after, the doors to the first HOOTERS restaurant opened on October 4th at 2800 Gulf-To-Bay Boulevard in Clearwater, Florida.  

The refreshing beach-like oasis was one of the first to introduce Buffalo-style chicken wings nationwide, and with the help of the iconic HOOTERS Girls, to foreign countries around the world. 

After 40 years, the original HOOTERS founders have stayed intact and continue to grow the concept in their territories retained in the Tampa Bay area and Chicagoland.

It's time for the mayhem in March to begin. The field of 68 is set. (It should still be 64 teams. I'm old school and hate play-in games.). So today, and for several days moving forward we will have a lot of college basketball trivia during Wiki-Pete-ia on the Shemon and Sheppard Show on ESPN Southwest Florida.

The annual college basketball tournament is tricky to predict. Since it is single-elimination and spread over three weeks, a great team can go cold and a team that isn't great can get hot. Anything can happen and it usually does. Some desperate teams will fight their way forward and surely, at least one top seed will fall! That means you: Alabama, Purdue, Houston, and Kansas.

So fill out your brackets and get ready for an adrenaline filled month. It's also time for college basketball trivia on the Shemon and Sheppard Show. We try to stump Pete every weekday at 4:45ish with Wiki-Pete-ia. Be caller number nine at 239-337-3776 or 239-337-ESPN and play Wiki for prizes. If you are not lucky enough to be caller number nine then feel free to play at work or at home against your family and friends. Below are the questions and answers to today's contest. Good luck!