The Vindys will get bigger and smaller in the coming months.

On April 26 the Youngstown band will perform with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra for a pops concert at Powers Auditorium.

Earlier this week the band announced that a streamlined lineup will open for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo on a cross-country trek in July and August featuring at least 16 concerts.

The band’s first national tour came together quickly. Lead singer Jackie Popovec said the first call from the husband-and-wife duo’s management came about two weeks ago, while she was on vacation in Rome. The details were finalized Monday, and the tour was announced Tuesday.

“We’re so excited,” she said Tuesday.

It won’t be the group’s first time playing with Benatar and Giraldo. The Vindys opened them at MGM Northfield Park as well as a show outside of Detroit last year.

The band also has played many shows outside of the region, including a week-long run of shows on the West Coast. But this will be its first full-scale tour with an itinerary that includes concerts from Washington state to New York City.

“We get to play the Beacon Theater in New York, the Paramount Theater in Denver,” Popovec said. “We get to play Las Vegas at the Palms Resort Casino. We’re going to be in front of an amazing fan base that is loyal to Pat, and I imagine we’re going to pick up so many new fans. We had to make it work.”

Benatar had 15 top 40 hits between 1979 and 1988, including “Love Is a Battlefield,” “We Belong,” “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” and “Heartbreaker.” Giraldo, a Cleveland native, was Benatar’s lead guitar player as well as the producer on some of her albums and co-writer of many of her songs. They were inducted into the Rock Hall in 2022.

While local audiences are used to seeing The Vindys with a horn section, the band will be touring as a six-piece unit — Popovec, lead vocals and guitar; John Anthony, guitar; Rick Deak, guitar; Nathan Anthony, keyboards; Brendan Burke, bass; and Owen Davis, drums. However, Popovec said they hope to include the horns for some of the dates closer to home, such as MGM Northfield Park on July 10 and Hershey, Pa., on July 18.

This isn’t the way the band members expected to spend their summer

“We had every plan to stay in the studio this summer,” Popovec said. “July and August, which are our busiest months, I left them completely wide open, which is the craziest thing. When Pat Benatar calls you, you don’t say no.

“Just last week, we bought a van. We bought a trailer. We put the hitch on the back yesterday, and now we’re ready to go.”

First comes the band’s concert with the orchestra and guest conductor Erik Ochsner. The Vindys did a similar concert last year with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, but doing it at Powers Auditorium is special, Popovec said.

“I am so looking forward to it. It’s going to be on the stage I grew up dancing on with Jamie’s Dance Force. I sang on that stage, I’ve performed on that stage and to be at our home base, with the history behind the theater and my history with the theater, I can’t wait.”

After meeting with Ochsner earlier this month, Popovec said she believes the band will have a more hands-on approach to the Youngstown orchestral concert

“He’s such a wonderful person, and he’s so excited to involve us in every way,” she said.

While The Vindys’ jazz-and-soul-influenced rock sound lends itself to the orchestral treatment, it was one of the less-obvious choices — the dance-y, indie pop title track to The Vindys’ second album “Bugs” — that really came alive in that setting in Canton.

“‘Bugs’ is such an abstract, weird, wonky, sound-colliding type of song,” Popovec said. “They were able to use all of these weird techniques with the strings, plucking them in a way you don’t hear regularly. They made the violins sound like bugs, and it was so cool to hear a whole different tone. It made the song better.”

The Youngstown concert also will include some cover songs the band didn’t do in Canton.

“It was cool the first time; it’s going to be even better the second time,” she said. “I will tell you nobody should miss that DeYor show. That is the show. It’s an experience to see a rock band with an orchestra. It is bone-chilling. I get chills on stage, I’m getting chills now talking about it.”

If you go …

WHAT: Youngstown Symphony Orchestra with Erik Ochsner, guest conductor, and The Vindys

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. April 26

WHERE: Powers Auditorium, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $20 to $63 and are available online at experienceyourarts.org and by calling 330-259-9651.

ALSO: This summer The Vindys will play at least 16 shows with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo in July and August, the closest of which is 7:30 p.m. July 10 at MGM Northfield Park, 10877 Northfield Road, Northfield. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.