Wish You Were Here
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 8pm
Location
Akron Civic Theatre
182 S Main St
Details
Wish You Were Here - The Sight & Sound of Pink Floyd presents “The Dark Side of The Moon - 50th and Beyond,” to benefit the Akron Children’s Hospital Haslinger Palliative Care Center. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the iconic album in its entirety plus Pink Floyd Classics & Obscurities, Wish You Were Here features North America’s biggest, most authentic Pink Floyd stage production - in a spectacular tribute of music, performers, lighting, videos and inflatables. Since 2013, Wish You Were Here’s past 6 benefit concerts in conjunction with the Akron Civic Theater and WONE have raised over $141,000 for Akron Children’s Hospital.
Known as “The Sight and Sound of Pink Floyd” since 1995, Wish You Were here continues its 28-year tradition as one of America’s most popular Pink Floyd tribute acts, combining Sight and Sound to capture the mood, emotions, and intensity of the Floydian theatrical concert experience. The 10-piece band authentically recreates music from the entire Pink Floyd canon, and is one of the longest continually-performing Pink Floyd tribute acts in the world.
