Styx with Special Guest Tesla in Concert at OPAF Oct. 1

MISSOULA, Mont. - The Missoula Osprey in conjunction with CMoore Live and the Missoula Broadcasting Company announced today that Styx with special guest Tesla will perform in concert at Ogren Park Allegiance Field on Thursday, Oct. 1 rain or shine.

Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. at the MSO Hub Box Office, located at 140 N. Higgins in downtown Missoula, by phone at (406) 543-3300, and online at Ticketmaster.com.

The event is General Admission on both the field and in the seating bowl. Tickets for the event are $49.50. This price does not include ticket convenience fees that will apply.

The six men comprising Styx have committed to rocking the paradise together with audiences far and wide by entering their second decade of averaging over 100 shows a year, and each one of them is committed to making the next show better than the last. Styx draws from over four decades of barnburning chart hits, joyous singalongs, and hard-driving deep cuts.

Styx hit its stride with guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw's first LP with the band, 1976's Crystal Ball, and then they became the first group to score four triple-platinum albums in a row: The Grand Illusion (1977), Pieces of Eight (1978), Cornerstone (1979), and Paradise Theater (1981).

Over the ensuing decade, Styx weathered the shifting winds of the public's musical taste, reconvening for a highly successful 1996 Return to Paradise tour that was expertly documented on both CD and DVD in 1997. With a little help from their many friends in Cleveland's Contemporary Youth Orchestra, One With Everything (2006) became a hybrid orchestral rock blend for the ages. And on The Grand Illusion / Pieces of Eight Live (2011), the band performed at its peak when tackling every track from a pair of their finest triple-platinum albums back to back.

Chairs, umbrellas as well as outside food and drink are not permitted in the stadium.

Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. at the MSO Hub Box Office, located at 140 N. Higgins in downtown Missoula, by phone at (406) 543-3300, and online at Ticketmaster.com.