Name: Echoes "Wish You Were Here" 50th Anniversary Laser Extravaganza
Start: 2025-08-02T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-03T03:00:00+00:00
Location: The Executive Banquet and Conference Center

Description

Join Echoes, The American Pink Floyd, as they celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"! This unique concert experience will be as much a feast for the eyes as for the ears! It's going to be sensory overload as they team up with the Laserists of SELEM to provide a unique visual experience like a Planetarium Floyd show on steroids! International award-winning laserists from around the US and a former Disney Imagineer will be joining Echoes to perform live with the band using a mix of laser abstracts, beams, scan-through effects and video synthesis to take you on a Pink Floyd journey unlike anything you've ever experienced!

Echoes is producing this show in conjunction with The Executive Conference Center, Pipefitters Local 74, and SELEM laserists.. There will be a cash bar with beer, wine, soft drinks and mixed drinks available. Come early and have a drink with the band and laser crew! Doors open at 7:00 and the concert and laser show start at 8:00 and run approximately 2 1/2 hours, with one 15 minute intermission.

*WARNING: "This show will be using intense laser and strobe effects, moving video images and haze. Patrons that may suffer from visual light stimulation effects are advised to contact the Front of house staff, prior to entering the auditorium!"

Meet some of the rock star laserists and lighting specialists who will be making this show absolutely incredible!

**Rick Hellman** - Rick likes lasers and is a dedicated, albeit a little obsessive, hobbyist in way over his head. He was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to take over a long running Pink Floyd tribute band gig in Texas from an industry legend. One laser turned to three then to five and, well you can imagine the rest. When he’s not engaging in this photonic foolishness, he works as a systems consultant for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

**Christopher Short** is a laser artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico in the USA. He is an award-winning laser artist who has designed and built his own laser equipment and has produced laser shows that have been seen around the world. He is well-known and highly respected in the professional laser show industry.

**David Zurcher**, Jacksonville, FL. I became a laser hobbyist after seeing my first Pink Floyd laser show in a planetarium in 1994. My greatest experience was performing lasers for a Bo Bice concert in Guantanamo Bay Cuba for the troops. The opportunity to perform lasers for The Echoes Pink Floyd American Tribute Band will undoubtedly surpass that experience!

Date & Time

Sat, Aug 2, 2025 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Venue Details

The Executive Banquet and Conference Center

205 Executive Drive
Newark, Delaware 19702

Echoes

What's the cost of fame? This question is at the center of arguably one of Pink Floyd's best albums. Wish You Were Here, released in 1975 as the follow-up to Floyd's legendary Dark Side of the Moon, the album holds a strange place in the catalog. The band wrote it while struggling with the realities of fame and the pressure to recreate their success of 1973's Dark Side. They had trouble finding inspiration and consensus and, by some reports, would not even look each other in the eye during some studio sessions. The result was a melancholic album that was one part lament for their fallen comrade, Syd Barrett, and one part vitriolic indictment of the music industry they blamed for Syd's ultimate demise and their own angst and alienation.

Join Echoes, the American Pink Floyd, as we recreate the entire Wish You Were Here album, track by track, note for note on the 50th Anniversary of its release! Of course, you'll get our award winning laser show, iconic video content - some actually used by Pink Floyd on tour themselves - and our amazing 10 piece band! Shine on You Crazy Diamond and join us for a night of Floyd you won't soon forget!