Chris Barnes is one of the principal vocalists with The Australian Pink Floyd Show.

In most tribute acts, each performer plays a single character, trying to create the sound — and oftentimes the look — of the artist whose music is being performed.

With The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Chris Barnes needs to be a chameleon.

“I sing (David) Gilmour stuff, (Roger) Waters stuff, (Richard) Wright stuff and Syd Barrett stuff, so I’m covering four jobs, obviously not at the same time,” Barnes said during a telephone interview from his home in England. “Richard Wright and David Gilmour have this rich tone, like a posh English accent. I’m from Manchester in the north of England, which is nowhere near Cambridge, where Gilmour came from, and I’m kind of putting on an impression.

“But, if anything, that’s easier to do than Roger Waters, which is like adapting into this character that is really biting. It’s not challenging in terms of the range of notes you’ve got to cover, but getting the tone of voice right. Gilmour’s is a rich kind of voice, very warm-sounding voice and Roger is very cold, thin kind of voice. When you’re doing, say ‘Comfortably Numb’ and singing the line, ‘I need some information …,’ it’s like a character. That can be quite challenging, getting your head around it and getting into that mindset — this is quite sneering, this is quite aggressive or this is really soft and quiet and soothing. It’s adapting those roles, stepping into these roles as you do the set.”

Barnes will be stepping into those roles in Youngstown next week, when The Australian Pink Floyd Show comes to the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre on June 8.

Last year, Aussie Floyd — and every other Pink Floyd tribute act — focused on the 50th anniversary of “Dark Side of the Moon.” Next year will be the 50th anniversary of “Wish You Were Here,” which is likely to get similar treatment.

“This year, there’s not big 50th anniversary like there was last year, so what we’re trying to do with the current set is a comprehensive selection of everything Pink Floyd covered, from the early days of Syd Barrett right through ‘Division Bell’ in the mid ’90s, stopping at major points in between,” Barnes said. “We’ve been playing a song we’ve never played before — no spoilers — an instrumental that is going over really, really well. It’s nice to do something fresh, and it’s very interesting seeing people’s reactions — ‘Oooh I haven’t heard this for a long time.'”

Barnes, who was born in 1977, never saw Pink Floyd play live. He’s seen Gilmour and Wright together, Waters solo and Nick Mason solo, but he was too young or too poor (a university student during the “Division Bell” tour) to catch the full spectacle of a Pink Floyd concert.

Many of the people he sings for today fall in the same category.

“Yeah, but there are many answers to that one really,” Barnes said. “We see all ages at our shows. We see guys obviously old enough to have seen Floyd in the ’70s, we see people who got on board in the ’80s when they were doing those big ’87 and ’89 tours. And we see those people with their kids and in some cases their grandkids.

“You just know this music is going to live on long after you and I are gone. Pink Floyd is one of those iconic bands. Its music is never going to die, like modern classical music.”

Barnes started out as a fan of Aussie Floyd. He saw the group in 1999 on his first date with the woman who became his wife.

“I never thought for one minute I’d end up in the band,” he said.

Barnes has been with the group since 2015, but Aussie Floyd got its start in 1988 and established itself as an international touring act, performing in more than 35 countries. Gilmour and Wright have joined the band on stage, and Gilmour hired Aussie Floyd to play at his 50th birthday party.

Some of those milestones occurred before Barnes joined the band, but the band continues to have those experiences. On its fall UK tour, the group will start at London’s Palladium and it will return to the city for the penultimate show of the tour at the legendary Royal Albert Hall.

“Royal Albert Hall we sold it out quite a while back,” Barnes said. “I don’t care who you are, those are pinch-me moments.”

If you go …

WHO: The Australian Pink Floyd Show

WHEN: 8:30 p.m. June 8

WHERE: Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre, 300 S. Phelps St., Youngstown

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $29.50 to $75 and are available through Ticketmaster.

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