Wilson Phillips book a spring Saturday at Bally's Twin River Lincoln

The harmony group behind "Hold On" plays the 3,000-capacity Lincoln room on Saturday, April 17, 2027.

Every wedding DJ in Rhode Island knows the moment: the bridal party grabs one another's shoulders, somebody shouts "here comes hope," and the dance floor turns into a choir. Next spring the women who wrote that song are coming close enough to sing it back.

Wilson Phillips play Bally's Twin River Lincoln on Saturday, April 17, 2027, with the show starting at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 27, and tickets are sold through Ticketmaster. The room holds 3,000, so this is a big-night-out show rather than an arena one. Five and a half months is a long runway, but for a nostalgia show on a Saturday in a casino room, waiting until spring is a gamble.

If you only know the chorus, the backstory is worth knowing. Wilson Phillips is Carnie and Wendy Wilson, daughters of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, and Chynna Phillips, daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. Carnie and Wendy are sisters; Chynna was their childhood friend. That is two of the great harmony bloodlines of 1960s California pop in one group, and the blend was the point from the start.

"Hold On" is the reason most people will be in the room. The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1990, knocking Madonna's "Vogue" from the top. The three wrote it themselves, with Glen Ballard producing and Joe Walsh on guitar. It turned into a generational singalong, and in 2011 it got a second life when *Bridesmaids* closed with the group performing it at the film's wedding. Rolling Stone later traced the song's long road from radio hit to wedding staple.

The group's original run was short. They split in 1993 and were back together by 2004, and they have been working the song and the catalog around it since. That history matters for the setlist: expect the singles everyone knows, sung by the people who made them, with the harmonies doing the heavy lifting.

The room fits the act. Lincoln's 3,000-capacity hall is big enough to feel like an event and small enough that three voices with no stadium production can carry. It is also an easy run up from Providence on a spring Saturday, with dinner and a drink under the same roof.

Two of the great harmony bloodlines of 1960s California pop, in one group.

There will be people in that room who first heard "Hold On" on the radio in 1990, and people who first heard it at the end of a movie twenty-one years later. On April 17, they will all be singing the same chorus.

Sources: Carnie Wilson — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); 'Here Comes Hope!': The Winding 30-Year Journey of Wilson Phillips' 'Hold On' — Rolling Stone (rollingstone.com); Wilson Phillips — The Spokesman-Review (spokesman.com); Wilson Phillips at Bally's Twin River Lincoln — JamBase (jambase.com); Tickets — Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.evyy.net)