THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE Plays Aurora's RiverEdge Park Tonight

Hey you, music fans: just as The Australian Bee Gees Show is making a big impression on Chicago, imagine the harder rock possibilities when the same producer, Annerin Productions, brings The Pink Floyd Experience to Chicagoland's newest outdoor concert venue, Aurora's RiverEdge Park, for one-night-only, tonight, August 17th.

Direct from New Zealand, The Pink Floyd Experience has spent years perfecting the art of recreating an exact Pink Floyd concert experience for new and old fans alike. Awe-inspiring sets and visuals, lasers, stunning lighting, psychedelic projections, an extremely passionate 10-piece band, and yes, a flying pig, all combine for a full-scale, full-on, full sensory psychedelic Floydian Spectacular.

If you haven't been yet, The Pink Floyd Experience is the ideal reason to check out RiverEdge, located at 360 North Broadway in downtown Aurora. Gates open at 6 p.m.The concert begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission; $35 preferred general admission bench seating; $60 Sky Deck. Sky Deck tickets include food and drink (beer, wine, soda and water), private restrooms, and an amazing view of the stage.

Tickets are on sale at RiverEdgeAurora.com via phone at 630.896.6666, or on-site at RiverEdge on all concert and event days, starting at 10 a.m. Or, stop by the nearby Paramount Theatre, the satellite box office for RiverEdge, located at 23 E. Galena Boulevard, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Pink Floyd is rarely discussed without using words like "psychedelic," "conceptual" and "provocative." Their shows are theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. Without question, the original Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time.

Bringing such a story to the stage is no easy feat. Annerin Productions, also producers of the national tribute band tours of The Australian Bee Gees, Rain-A Tribute to the Beatles and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, searched the continent for committed and talented musicians who could really do Pink Floyd justice. Annerin nailed it. They found the band, the lights and the sound to create THE show for the ultimate Floyd fan, and it's called...The Pink Floyd Experience.

Band leader Tom Quinn is lead guitarist and relentless crusader for all things Pink Floyd. In 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon was released. That same year Quinn bought his first guitar, and started his first band. From day one, his chief mentor was David Gilmour. Quinn also cites Joe Walsh and Leslie West as big influences on his playing. He dates the musical roots of PFX back to 1994, when Pink Floyd's Division Bell tour stopped in San Diego. The band hit the stage in April 1995 and went on to garner many San Diego Music Awards from 1999 to 2003.

Other band members include Gus Beaudoin, John Cox, Randy McStine, Jesse Molloyand Bob Sale. For more information, visit thepinkfloydexperience.net.

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