Arnel Fans

The rather unlikely hookup with singer Arnel Pineda has breathed a whole new life into rock band Journey.

With oodles of enthusiasm and a voice that’s a dead ringer for the most famous of Journey singers - the revered Steve Perry - Pineda and original Journey men Neal Schon on guitar and Ross Valory on bass thoroughly thrilled the state fair’s packed Mohegan Sun Grandstand.

Add practically original keyboardist Jonathan Cain, who joined in 1981, and drummer Deen Castronovo, who came on in 1998, and Journey had the goods to deliver the hook-filled rock songs that have kept their songs on radio and in pop culture since they burst out of San Francisco in 1979.

Syracuse.com reviews Journey’s concert in the Mohegan Sun Grandstand.

Syracuse.com previews Journey’s concert Saturday night.

Power pop comes to the state fair grandstand with a vengeance Saturday with a triple bill featuring Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick.

Journey, with founding guitarist Neal Schon and lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, is touring in support of its latest CD, “Revelation.”

Ann and Nancy Wilson have gone through many styles since Heart came out of the Northwest in the 1980s. But now they’ve returned to the hard rock sounds that made them famous.