Name: Smisek Sings Sedaka
Start: 2026-03-07T22:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-07T23:00:00-05:00
Location: 811 E 7th Ave, East Tampa, FL, United States, Florida 33602

In 1982, to promote the overseas release of his album Neil Sedaka: Now, the American pop star Neil Sedaka spent a summer touring Europe -- including a groundbreaking three-week tour of Czechoslovakia, then under Soviet control. Sedaka's rock-and-roll style and lively shows invigorated the democracy movement there, and the singer became an underground icon.
Countless Sedaka tribute acts sprung up in the years following his visit -- and although the singer's star was on the wane in the United States, in Czechoslovakia he became something of a national hero. When the USSR fell, jubilant Czechs thronged Národní Třída, singing "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do."
Now, almost 45 years after Sedaka's fateful tour, well-known Czech Sedaka interpreter Smisek is coming to the Commodore to pay tribute to the man who brought rock and roll to Prague and played a small albeit important part in dismantling the Iron Curtain.