‘Come Together’ for a tribute to The Beatles

The Beatles tribute band returns to the Monongahela Aquatorium along with opener Mallory Bozovich.

Regional favorite Come Together, a Beatles tribute band, will headline this Saturday evening’s Rockin’ on the Mon concert at the Monongahela Aquatorium, which will also feature teenage country singer Mallory Bozovich as the opener.

The Aquatorium’s summer concert series will run through the end of August on Saturday evenings. Gates open at 6 p.m. for the Aug. 10 show, and it costs $10 per person.

Come Together, led by a group of guys based in the South Hills area who love The Beatles, has been around for about two decades. The band features Lou Valli, Tom Flaherty, Scott Anderson, Dennis Snyder, Joe Waslousky and Bill Zalewski covering the various instruments and vocal styles of the band’s iconic original band members.

“They’re great,” Valli said. “The comradery, the friendship and all that is probably a big part of why we do it. They’re great to work with. We just have a lot of fun together.”

Valli and the crews’ love of the Beatles keep them returning to do shows, he said.

“We just really love the Beatles,” Valli said. “We enjoy their music, and we just enjoy replicating and producing and doing their songs. We really enjoy that, and then, couple that with a lot of satisfaction of sharing and playing for people who also enjoy Beatles music.”

Come Together last played the Aquatorium two years ago, and the band loved the show, according to Valli.

“We thought it went well,” Valli said. “It was well-received, people seemed to really enjoy it, and we had some people dancing. The Aquatorium is always our favorite show of the year.”

The opener, Bozovich, will play a mixture of popular covers from artists such as Stevie Nicks and Miranda Lambert as well as her own original music. She will play alongside her uncle Randy Roberts on the upper-level stage before Come Together.

Bozovich, 16, recently graduated early from Bentworth High School. She plans to attend Wheeling University to pursue communications and business.

“That way I can run my own business, I can do music and be my own boss,” Bozovich said.

And she’s not taking a break from playing music — she’s booked through the end of the year, she said.

Bozovich also recently participated in a program from Pittsburgh radio station WYEP called the Reimagination Project. For this program, the public radio station gathered Pittsburgh-area teens for educational tours, professional connections and production services for an original song that the station then played on the radio. Bozovich wrote the song “Memory Behind Me,” which can be streamed online and will be part of Saturday’s set-list, she said.

“It’s a song about realizing something’s not great and needing to move on and just letting go of anything bad that has happened,” Bozovich said. “It’s very special to me, because that’s the first song I’ve had on the radio. Hearing that on the radio was crazy.”

Last year, Bozovich opened at the Aquatorium near the vendors, and she loved it, she said. She got more of a crowd than expected, which has her thrilled for this year’s opening act on the main stage.

“To see everybody just gather around there and show up was incredible. And even to stay and watch the headliners. Everything was so well put together. The staff were incredibly nice,” Bozovich said. “And I’m super excited to be back, because that was one of my favorite shows that I think I’ve ever played.”