Sounds of the 1960s through 1980s will fill The West End Fair’s Main Stage in Gilbert when TimeWhys performs sets at 3 and 4:30 p.m. Aug. 25.

“The band has a love for The Beatles, so we are deeply rooted in the ’60s and ’70s sound,” said Tom Drago, TimeWhys keyboardist and lead vocalist. The group’s repertoire includes acts such as the Bee Gees, The Grass Roots, The Foundations, The Cyrkle and The Doors.

Based in the Lehigh Valley, TimeWhys also features Drago’s brother Frank on keyboards, bass and vocals. Mark Johnson, on guitar and vocals, and John Nigrelli, on drums and vocals, round out the lineup.

The band’s multi-instrumentalist members use technology to reproduce sound that would take six or eight musicians to replicate, Drago noted. The group reproduces “intricate details of the original performances. You should hear these songs as you remember them.”

TimeWhys, Drago said, “is the modern-day version of the band Otherside from the late 1980s/early 1990s. The same four musicians have been together for many years. In the ’90s, we did songs from the then-current Billboards charts.”

As Otherside, the band had original songs on local FM radio stations such as WLEV, WAEB, and WPST in New Jersey, and supported 1960s group The Platters at a 1991 gig.

As band members grew older, more experienced and technologically savvy, “we decided to go back to our roots and do songs we loved from our childhood,” Drago said. Thus, the group has performed as TimeWhys for eight years.

The name, Drago said, expresses that “our band members are ‘wise’ to the fact that the ‘time’ period of music we perform is the best music of our lifetime. We also ask ourselves ‘Why’ does the ‘Time’ have to go by so fast? And so we became TimeWhys.”

Initially, TimeWhys performed just 1960s and 1970s music. However, “as of late, we are getting requests for ’80s tunes, as well,” Drago said. “So we do include two or three ’80s tunes,” plus one-hit-wonder songs.

The band, Drago said, has tried to secure a show at The West End Fair for about three years. A Cramer Brothers recommendation helped TimeWhys land a spot on this year’s schedule.

Through the years, the band has performed in the Poconos at wineries, resorts and lakes, as well as the West End Firemen’s Festival. Career highlights, Drago, said, include opening for 1960s act The Cyrkle and snaring several Best Local Band readers’ choice awards. In addition, TimeWhys has performed shows during Musikfest in Bethlehem.

TimeWhys, with one EP to its credit, may record more original, band-penned music. However, Drago “can’t say too much about it yet, but it will be in the same vein as the ’60s to ’80s music we love.”

In the meantime, TimeWhys, Drago said, enjoys seeing fan reaction to band’s live shows.

“Attendees of our shows often say, ‘Wow, I remember that tune!’ There’s no better feeling than to make fans happy and bring them back to a memorable part of their lives.”