Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons Tribute

Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons Tribute at Cleveland Museum of Art - Gartner Auditorium

Imagine the opening pulse of ‘Clocks’ without a piano—or the emotional lift of ‘Fix You’ carried by four string players. That's the little thrill of Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons. You already know the melodies. What you don't know is how they'll feel when every note is exposed in a candlelit room.

The program leans into the contrasts that make this pairing work. Coldplay brings Clocks, Fix You, The Scientist, and Viva la Vida; Imagine Dragons answers with Radioactive, Thunder, Believer, and Follow You. Those titles already carry plenty of weight on their own. In a string-quartet setting, the melodies get clearer, the edges get softer, and the whole performance feels more focused on the writing itself.

That matters in Gartner Auditorium, a setting that adds architectural polish to the performance before the first note even lands. This is a tribute concert, not the original bands, but that’s exactly why it works: the songs are familiar enough to recognize instantly, yet different enough to listen to them with fresh attention.

See more about the setting at Gartner Auditorium.

Turn songs you know by heart into a night you haven't had before. Get tickets for Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons Tribute in Cleveland.