Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
Friday, Apr 5, 2024 at 8:00pm
Akron Civic Theatre
182 South Main
330-253-2488

Akron Civic Theatre

The Sight & Sound of Pink Floyd presents “ECLIPSE 2024” at Akron Civic Theatre on Friday April 5, 2024 to benefit the Akron Children’s Hospital Haslinger Palliative Care Center.  Celebrating the upcoming 2024 Eclipse that occurs 3 days later with a new laser light show that will guide you to the Dark Side of the Moon and back - and featuring Pink Floyd classics & obscurities of all eras, from Syd Barrett to the Division Bell - each ticket holder will receive a Free pair of Eclipse Solar Filter Glasses courtesy of WYWH.  Since 2013, Wish You Were Here’s past 7 benefit concerts in conjunction with the Akron Civic Theater and WONE have raised over $183,000 for Akron Children’s Hospital and The Haslinger Pediatric Palliative Care Center. Wish You Were Here presents North America’s biggest, most authentic Pink Floyd stage production - in a spectacular tribute of music, performers, lasers, lighting, videos and inflatables.

Known as “The Sight and Sound of Pink Floyd” since 1995, Wish You Were here continues its 29-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.