Some bands keep time. Others keep legacy. Richrath Project REO does both, carrying the spark of Gary Richrath’s songwriting like a lantern through the years. Led by Michael Jahnz, former frontman of the Gary Richrath Band, the project was born after Gary’s passing in 2015 as a way to keep his unmistakable sound alive: the soaring leads, the road-tested hooks, the big-sky heart that made REO Speedwagon a pillar of American rock.
On January 23, The Olympic Theater becomes a highway of memory and melody. Expect guitar lines that bend like headlights in the mist, vocals built for open roads, and that signature REO pulse that always seems to speed up your own. It’s a night built for anyone who ever blasted Ridin’ the Storm Out, swore they could hit the high notes in Take It On the Run, or just believes rock can outlive the clock when it’s played with enough soul.
Richrath Project REO doesn’t imitate, they illuminate. And for one night in January, they’ll let that classic fire burn bright.
Doors 6PM
The sound that shaped a generation, played by the ones who lived it.
