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<p>The last two years have brought career honors and frustrations for Peter Cetera, but the former founding member of Chicago and successful solo songwriter is only focused on one thing.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m having more fun than I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; the 72-year-old vocal tenor and multi-instrumentalist said.</p><p>Cetera and his band, the Bad Daddies, will headline the Under the Stars Summer Arts Festival with a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Wells Fargo Amphitheater on the Misericordia University campus in Dallas Township.</p><p>Cetera&#8217;s tenure in Chicago lasted from 1967 to 1985, during which he worked on 18 albums with the band, writing and singing some of its most popular songs including the Grammy-winning &#8220;If You Leave Me Now.&#8221;</p><p>His solo career has been equally successful, producing hits like &#8220;The Glory of Love&#8221; and &#8220;Restless Heart.&#8221;</p><p>The Bad Daddies, Cetera said, perform the songs he&#8217;s written and recorded in both phases of his career.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not by any means a Chicago tribute,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a Peter Cetera tribute if anything. I cover my span of writing, and it seems to please everybody.&#8221;</p><p>Whether he&#8217;s invoking the jazz fusion stylings of his former band or catering to the singer-songwriter tone he adopted as a solo musician, Cetera said audiences are giving positive feedback.</p><p>&#8220;I get a chance to do what I want to do, the way I want to do it within different genres of music,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re getting all ages (to come to the shows), and everybody seems to go home very happy.&#8221;</p><p>His band, which Cetera called a &#8220;great bunch of national musicians,&#8221; recently completed a round of rehearsals.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m adding some new things that nobody&#8217;s ever heard before,&#8221; Cetera said.</p><p>The plan, he said, is to debut new songs on tour and see how they evolve based on the live arrangements the Bad Daddies perform.</p><p>&#8220;This is a group where we have fun when we rehearse and we talk things out, and that goes with learning a new thing or two. We&#8217;re constantly learning new old stuff, things that I wanted to do from the past and never had the opportunity.&#8221;</p><p>Some of Cetera&#8217;s notable old stuff was honored in 2016 when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Chicago. Initially, Cetera considered reuniting with his former bandmates for a one-night performance, but he decided not to attend the ceremony at all after all parties involved failed to agree to terms surrounding the performance.</p><p>&#8220;I have mixed feelings about the Rock Hall,&#8221; Cetera said, &#8220;starting with the fact that Chicago should have been in years ago, and there are certain politics that have changed. It&#8217;s turned into a TV show instead of a singular honor.&#8221;</p><p>Fellow inductee Steve Miller was outspoken in taking the Rock Hall to task in the same year, offering scathing criticism after his ceremony appearance.</p><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s funny is Steve Miller and I lived in the same town for years, Ketchum, Idaho,&#8221; Cetera said. &#8220;I thought it was pretty unique that two guys from the same little town got inducted at the same time. I remember talking to him a few days before the event, and he said, &#8216;You&#8217;re not going? I&#8217;m going, but begrudgingly.&#8217;&#8221;</p><p>Six months ago, it was announced that Cetera would be inducted into the Songwriter&#8217;s Hall of Fame with fellow Chicago members Robert Lamm and James Pankow. But after Cetera decided he couldn&#8217;t make the ceremony to perform with Lamm and Pankow, his induction was withdrawn.</p><p>&#8220;What started out as honors years ago turns into &#8216;we have a TV show we can sell to HBO and makes lots of cash,&#8217;&#8221; Cetera lamented.</p><p>But his distaste for industry organizations is not holding him back from enjoying his work.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m stealing this line from somebody I heard it from years back: I get paid to travel. I go on stage for free. Getting there is 98 percent of the hassle with hotels and planes and this and that. The stage is fun.</p><p>&#8220;I have a fantastic band that travels with me, and I&#8217;m working more than I have since back in the day with Chicago. I&#8217;m looking forward to coming (to Misericordia) and playing for people who have come to see us. It&#8217;ll be a blast.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Former member of Chicago Peter Cetera and his band, the Bad Daddies, will headline the Under the Stars Summer Arts Festival Saturday at Misericordia University. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_FOR-PUBLICATION-Peter-Cetera-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Former member of Chicago Peter Cetera and his band, the Bad Daddies, will headline the Under the Stars Summer Arts Festival Saturday at Misericordia University. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_FOR-PUBLICATION-Peter-Cetera-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Cetera said he&#8217;s having more fun than he&#8217;s ever had playing songs he&#8217;s written and recorded throughout his career. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_FOR-PUBLICATION-Peter-Cetera-2.jpg</photo1><caption1>Cetera said he&#8217;s having more fun than he&#8217;s ever had playing songs he&#8217;s written and recorded throughout his career. </caption1><photoCredit1>Submitted photo </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Former Chicago frontman to play hits from throughout his catalogue</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Matt Mattei</p><p>mmattei@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>IF YOU GO</strong></p><p><strong>What: </strong>Peter Cetera and the Bad Daddies</p><p><strong>Where: </strong>Wells Fargo Amphitheater, Misericordia University campus, 301 Lake St., Dallas Township.</p><p><strong>When: </strong>8 p.m. Saturday</p><p><strong>Additional information: </strong>Individual tickets cost $30 for lawn seats and $45 for amphitheater seats. To purchase tickest in advance, visit <a href="http://bit.ly/2uT8UX4" target="_blank">bit.ly/2uT8UX4</a> or call 570-674-6719.</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Matt Mattei at 570-991-6651 or on Twitter @TimesLeaderMatt.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter Cetera to play Misericordia arts festival