Ernie Haase & Signature Sound will start April with a run of shows in Texas and finish the month with dates in Iowa and Nebraska.

For the Stow-based Haase, that short trek to Packard Music Hall for a Warren Civic Music Association concert on April 8 will be a welcome break from all the travel.

“I can sleep in my own bed,” Haase said. “We’ve been hitting it hard, and we will continue ’til the first of June, and then we take June, July and August, we practically take all that off. We do a cruise to Alaska in July, which is great because our wives get to go with us. It doesn’t feel like work when you go on a cruise.”

And those wives deserve some of the spoils. They’re responsible for inspiring many of the song choices for the Warren concert. The show will be built around the quartet’s “Decades of Love” album.

“We lost a whole year of touring, like most musical acts during the pandemic,” Haase said. “We went in the studio and recorded some love songs as a gift to our wives, to say thank you for putting up with us for a year, because they’re used to us going out. It was supposed to be four or five songs. We just kept recording, and we ended up with 29 songs.”

They decided to focus on the great love songs of the last century. Going back to the 1920s, they picked two or three songs to represent each decade, from the Great American Songbook standard “It Had to Be You” to One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.”

“It came out of the heart, our love for our wives, and then it turned into a show, because we’re like, ‘OK, this is something special here,'” Haase said. “We worked really, really hard because we had the extra time to work on it, and we’ve been touring it the last four years. It’s a perennial gift that keeps giving.”

Haase didn’t hesitate when asked if any of those love songs had a special significance to him.

“From the 1960s, from the movie ‘Blue Hawaii,’ it’s ‘I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You,'” he said. “That’s my favorite of all. I love all those songs, but that one in particular, because I sang that to my wife at our wedding Dec. 8, 1990, over 34 years ago.

“What we have found in talking to the patrons, you always have people come up and say, ‘This was my favorite song, because this is a song we heard on our first date.’ Every song has a memory behind it, and that’s why they’ve endured. Not only are they great songs, but

They’ve got great memories associated with them.”

Ernie Haase & Signature Sound started as a gospel quartet in 2003, and the group has won six Dove Awards and received four Grammy nominations. That remains an important part of the group, but it’s also expanded its repertoire with more secular music, from showtunes to the songs on “Decades of Love.”

Haase and Doug Anderson have been with the group since its inception. Dustin Doyle has been a part of the quartet for more than a decade, and its newest member is bass singer Christopher Taylor, who is 20 years old.

“A year ago this week, we sang in Ft. Myers, Florida. He and his brother drove over. They’re big fans of ours,” Haase said. “After the concert he just came up to me and said, ‘I sing bass. I want you to listen to me sing. He held his cellphone out, and I was blown away.

“What he didn’t know, and what he couldn’t know, is out bassist had just put his resignation in, his six-week notice. Because he was 19 years old, I called his mom and dad — ‘Hey, we actually are looking for a singer. Would you give us your permission?’ ‘Absolutely, we trust you,’ and so he came and rode on the bus and never got off. It was just that simple. That was the easiest transition we’ve ever had … He’s lighting up the stage every night. It’s been a great addition.”

If you go …

WHO: Warren Civic Music Association — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

WHEN: 7 p.m. April 8

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $45 and are available through Ticketmaster.