Teenage band playing classic rock covers – note-for-note – at Oshawa waterfront park Thursday

Teenagers performing classic rock hits note-for-note at a waterfront park for free? What’s not to love?

With Wednesday’s weather behind us, Events in the Park (formerly known as ‘Summer in the City’) is at Oshawa’s Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park tonight for a free show with Leave Those Kids Alone, a band featuring talented teenagers performing note-for-note renditions of classic rock favourites.

The Windsor-based band performs a wide range of classic hits, from Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb (from the 1979 album, The Wall, which gave us the iconic lyric, ‘Hey teacher, leave those kids alone!’) and Hotel California by the Eagles to the Beatles’ classic With a Little Help From my Friends and Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas.

Formed in 2018, the band has performed more than 300 shows and are no strangers to playing before large and enthusiastic crowds.

Events in the Park is a free family-friendly series of events held across various parks within the City of Oshawa all summer long.

The entertainment includes reggae, South American, classic rock, opera, ’80s, R&B and country, as well as interactive theatre, dance and drum lessons and movie nights.

The concerts will take place from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday downtown at Memorial Park and every Thursday at Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park.

The series debuted Thursday, July 4 with Inka’s Band, a South American Indigenous group playing pan flutes, guitars, bass and drums and Memorial Park welcomed Juno-award winning Lazo and Exodus Tuesday, July 9 for a roots reggae performance.