Biography

"A sweet and soaring show that takes you back…before on-demand and mobile everywhere, when the radio was the center of our music culture.”

SPIRIT OF THE RADIO is a live concert that pays tribute to music radio’s platinum age, the 1979-1989 radio rock decade.

Filled with masterful storytelling, first-rate staging, and full band, SPIRIT OF THE RADIO is a larger-than-life tribute to a time when the world sat entranced by their radios as single after single, hit after hit, coursed through speakers and enamored millions with arguably the most bountiful decade of airwave music.

Starring one of the men who was there, who walked the hearts and hallways of record companies and broadcast studios, Pat Balder is the showman of a thousand songs and a thousand stories who combines sonic mastery and an encyclopedic knowledge to deliver a stirring flashback that audiences will not forget.

With soaring melodies and a stylish signature, Pat Balder leads an enchanting and reminiscent retrospective of the history behind radio’s influence in promoting mainstream classics from The Eagles, The Police, U2, Journey, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Huey Lewis, Queen, Dire Straits, and many more titans of radio rock.

SPIRIT OF THE RADIO is the show for audiences seeking to turn the radio dial of memory to the feel good times of yesteryear. For anyone who has sat by the radio, for anyone who has requested that special song, this is the show that gets audiences laughing, singing, clapping, and reliving the magic of music radio’s platinum age.

SPIRIT OF THE RADIO is the majestic hall of remembrance, the journey through the halcyon lights, sounds and smiles of our cultural past. It’s the music that people of all ages still know and love. It’s everyone’s best concert experience rolled into one stage spectacular.

SPIRIT OF THE RADIO is energy entertainment so good you won’t believe it’s live.