POCATELLO — The first three major concerts to be hosted at the new Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheater have been announced.

United Concerts announced that the Beach Boys and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will be the first to play the new venue on August 31.

Then The Australian Pink Floyd Show and Led Zeppelin 2 will follow with a concert on September 8, and rock bands Styx and Tesla are scheduled to perform on September 27.

Tickets for all three shows will go on sale Friday, June 19 at 10 a.m. at www.smithstix.com, Smith’s Tix Outlets at 400 S. Woodruff in Idaho Falls and 4845 Yellowstone Ave. in Chubbuck, or by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX.

The Beach Boys will be bringing their “50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun Tour.” The current line up includes original member Mike Love. Some of their biggest hits include “I Get Around,” “California Girls,” “Surfin’ U.S.A. and “Help Me, Rhonda.”

The Australian Pink Floyd Show includes a light and laser show, video animations, film projected onto a circular screen and other special effects. The tribute group has performed for nearly 30 years.

Rock band Styx formed in the early 70s and have released 15 studio albums. Their hit singles include “Too Much Time On My Hands,” “Babe,” “Come Sail Away,” and “Lady.”

Tesla gained popularity in the mid to late 80s with songs such as “Signs” and “Love Song.”

The amphitheaters just one of the many features being built at the 80 acre Portneuf Wellness Complex in Pocatello. The amphitheater will have 2,100 reserved stadium style seats, 150 VIP box seats and 150 manifest seats next to the stage. A grassy area on the hill behind the seats can accommodate an additional 8,400 people.

The stage is 60 feet wide and the roof is tall enough to accommodate the large video screens that many bands now include with their performances. Both the width of the stage and the height of the ceiling were increased from the original design.

“We raised the roof, literally,” says Keeven Shropshire of J.H.S. Architects. Shropshire designed the

J.H.S. Architects was in charge of the design of the amphitheater and the other buildings at the complex.

Keeven Shropshire designed the amphitheater and says “I was quite privileged to have the health care foundation ask me to build this for them.”

Though this was the first amphitheater he’s designed, he and other members of the Portneuf Health Care Foundation toured other state-of-the-art venues, including the USANA Amphitheater in Utah, prior to drawing up the plans.

Shropshire says that one of his objectives when designing the amphitheater was to make it multi-functional.

“One of the biggest differences between our amphitheater and those you see around the country is that this is not just for band performances. We wanted to make this available to the public for things like symphony and plays,” he says, “The community is not really going to fathom what is there until the first performance, when it is opened up to the community.”

Shropshire also designed the Farm Bureau Insurance building on Tierra Drive just to the east of Interstate 15 in Pocatello.

The Portneuf Wellness Complex will open in late summer. It will also includes a 34 foot-deep lake stocked with rainbow trout and Kokanee Salmon. A 450-foot stream that flows into the lake was designed and built by Idaho Fish and Game members with the fish in mind, and the salmon were released into the stream so that they would imprint there and come back to spawn in the fall.

Landscape Architect Bill Jackson says there are also several sports fields, volleyball and basketball courts with special sod and sand specifically designed for sports play. There is also a playground that was uniquely designed to be more physically engaging.

“We said, ‘Let’s do something unique, first and best,’ so that’s what we tried to do,” Jackson says.

The official grand opening of the Portneuf Wellness Complex is September 12.

Get updates on the progress of the complex on the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/PortneufWellnessComplex