Hotel California, the long-running Eagles tribute, plays the Fox on Feb. 28

A Sunday-evening show at Bakersfield's Fox Theater: doors at 6:30, music at 7:30, tickets $59.

Some songs are for a Sunday night in late winter, with the week ahead not quite started. The Fox Theater has booked a whole set of them: Hotel California – The Original Eagles Tribute plays the Fox on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2027. Doors are at 6:30 p.m., the show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $59, all on the Fox's own site.

This is not a pick-up band that learned the hits last year. By its own account, Hotel California goes back to 1986, when the Eagles themselves were on a break, and it has been playing their songs ever since. Bassist and singer Andy Lapointe has been in the band since 1987 and has played thousands of shows with it. He sings the Joe Walsh- and Randy Meisner-era material, including "Take It to the Limit." The band says it has toured from the '80s to now, from Toronto to Japan and Dubai, and shared bills with the Doobie Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and REO Speedwagon. Members have also played in Canadian touring bands including The Guess Who, April Wine and Glass Tiger.

By its own account, Hotel California has been playing these songs since 1986, when the Eagles were on a break.

That's the band's own history rather than an outside one, but four decades of steady bookings are a pretty good reference. Tribute acts that last this long tend to be the ones that get the harmonies right, and with the Eagles, the harmonies are the whole job.

The Fox suits it. The theater on H Street holds about 1,500. That's big enough for a room full of people who know every word, and small enough that stacked harmonies carry without being blasted. A tribute show in a historic theater also feels different from one at a casino lounge. People dress up a little, the seats face the stage and the songs get treated like repertoire.

Hotel California will be working through California around then: Ticketmaster has them in Palm Springs on Feb. 17. Bakersfield gets the Sunday at the end of the month.

If you grew up with these records on the car radio heading over the Grapevine, or you're taking somebody who did, it's an easy Sunday to say yes to. Tickets are on the Fox's site.

Sources: Bakersfield Fox Theater (official site): Hotel California - The Original Eagles Tribute, Feb 28, 2027 (thebakersfieldfox.com); Ticketmaster: Hotel California - The Original Eagles Tribute artist page (ticketmaster.com); Arts Garage: Hotel California – The Original Tribute to the Eagles (artsgarage.org); The Palace Theatre: HOTEL CALIFORNIA – The Original Eagles Tribute Band (thepalacetheatre.org); SaskMusic: Hotel California – The Original Eagles Tribute Band (saskmusic.org); Fox Theater (Bakersfield, California) (en.wikipedia.org)