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Add a Dash of Live Music to your Wildlights Adventure!

Lakeside Pavilion at the Columbus Zoo

Select Nights at 7:00 p.m.

Enjoy live performances by Central Ohio's jolliest choirs, bands, and musical groups during your trip to the Columbus Zoo for Wildlights!

Plan Your Wildlights Visit

Performances

Sounds of the Season at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will provide free live community entertainment on select nights for guests attending Wildlights to enjoy. 

NOVEMBER 2025
NOV 21Westmoor Winds
NOV 22 
NOV 23 
NOV 24Pleasant High School Jazz Band
NOV 25Columbus Pop Band
NOV 26 
NOV 27CLOSED: Thanksgiving
NOV 28 
NOV 29Licking Heights High School
NOV 30West Jefferson Jazz Band
DECEMBER 2025
DEC 1Vocalities
DEC 2Out of the Blue
DEC 3Northridge High School Jazz Band
DEC 4Thomas Worthington Jazz Band
DEC 5Hilliard Davidson's Blue Kids on the Block
DEC 6Troy Christian Schools Wind Ensemble
DEC 7Capriccio Youth Choir
DEC 8Westerville City Schools Notables & Jazz Central Choir
DEC 9Hamilton Twp. High School Chamber Singers
DEC 10Scottish Corners Elementary
DEC 11New Albany Choir
DEC 12Licking Heights Local Schools
DEC 13Olentangy Shanahan Middle School 8th Grade Choir
DEC 14"Signs" of Christmas
DEC 15Granville High School Choir
DEC 16Dublin Coffman High School
DEC 17New London Concert & Junior High Bands
DEC 18Heath High School
DEC 19Cheshire Elementary
DEC 20Liberty Tree Elementary
DEC 21Worthington Chorus
DEC 22 
DEC 23 
DEC 24CHRISTMAS EVE: No Performances Scheduled
DEC 25CHRISTMAS: Zoo Closed

Each performance will be at the Lakeside Pavilion Theater, located on the west side of Conservation Lake. Schedules are subject to change without notice.