If Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac were in the same band, they might sound like Dreams, an area rock group that debuts in concert Sept. 15, Roxy Theatre, Northampton.

“It’s not just an average tribute band. There are wigs, costumes, props and special effects,” says Dreams vocalist Alexxis Steele at her studio in west Allentown.

“It is more of an experience. It will be exciting and a lot of fun,” Steele continues.

“I’ve been playing Stevie Nicks for years, and I like to get into character,” says Steele.

“Dreams is a fitting name because this is a ‘What if’ experience. What if all three acts got together?,” says Dreams guitarist and singer Bryan Shumway from his home in Whitehall.

“Tribute bands try to look like the original artists as much as possible. We don’t have a female keyboard player,” says Shumway, who dresses like Tom Petty in Dreams.

Christine McVie (1943-2022) was keyboard player, a lead vocalist and a songwriter in Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1974-1980. Mick Fleetwood, a founder and drummer of the band, said in 2023 that there would not be a reunion of the group.

Tom Petty (1950-2017) was friends with Nicks for four decades and they recorded together.

With so much material to choose from, Shumway says Dreams will play some lesser-known “deep cuts,” as well as the hits such as “Dreams” (from which the group takes its name) from Fleetwood Mac’s breakout album, “Rumours” (1977).

“We absorb the songs and put our own flavor on them. We want people to feel that they have actually seen the artist without being a complete clone,” Shumway says.

Fleetwood Mac, founded in 1967 in London, England, started as a blues band.

In the Dreams band, guitarist and singer Steve Ricker, who has a blues background with bands like his own Crosscut Saw, will perform some of Fleetwood Mac’s blues-based songs.

Ricker calls himself “the Lindsey Buckingham of the group,” admitting that he looks nothing like him.

Buckingham was lead guitarist and a lead vocalist 1975-2018 in Fleetwood Mac.

Dreams includes Frank Deemer, keyboards; Rick Callahan, bass, and Vince Parke, drums.

Dancers from 3D Dance Studio, Northampton, will be featured in the finale of the Roxy concert.

Steele has had more than 10 bands in the Lehigh Valley since 1983. Her most recent was Ultraviolet, also with Shumway, which ended in 2019.

With Dreams, she plans to play theaters with a bigger show: “I’m sick of doing the bar scene, and I need a big stage for this band.

“In the Eighties, my favorite time, there were lots of places to play. We did the circuit three times a week.” Steele names a number of area rock music venues that are gone. “And bands are now paid what they were in the Eighties,” Steele says.

“Music 101 with Alexxis Steele,” a podcast on YouTube, iHeart Radio and Spotify, features interviews with entertainers. Steele edits an online music magazine, Steel Notes.

Last year, Steele published “Adventures in Dogville,” the first of a projected series of six children’s books with stories based on the real-life adventures of dogs and cats she has owned.

Shumway, who has been playing in bands for 45 years, says, “We don’t want to be background noise in the corner of the bar. In this band, we are all on the same wavelength and don’t have big egos.”

Says Ricker, “We’ve been working hard for a year, getting it to sound good.”

Shumway says, “This music is timeless. It’s just as relevant today as when it first came out.”

Dreams, 1 p.m. Sept. 15, Roxy Theatre, 2004 Main St., Northampton. Tickets: 610-262-ROXY, www.roxytheaternorthampton.com.