Kashmir, one of the nation’s top Led Zeppelin tribute bands, provides an authentic representation of a live concert performance by the iconic band, complete with costumes, visuals and audience interaction.

Kashmir: “The Live Led Zeppelin Show” returns at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 to the Sherman Theater, 524 Main St., Stroudsburg.

In an interview from his home in New Jersey, lead vocalist Jean Violet says the tribute band came about in the late 1990s. “At the time I was signed to a Japanese recording label.” Violet’s vocal training abroad and eight-hour rehearsals prepared him for the discipline of touring.

In 1998, Violet moved back to the U.S., living in New York City with a fellow musician. “For fun, we decided to start playing Led Zeppelin in the East Village. It took off like a rocket.”

The tribute band, Time of Dying, performed on Bleecker Street and even at Madison Square Garden as the house band for a football team in 1999.

Violet knew that tribute bands were having great success on the East Coast, so he formed Kashmir in 2000. He created a marketing plan and contacted venues, focusing on theaters and large festivals.

Kashmir includes Jean Violet (as Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant), vocals and harmonica; Andy Urban (Jimmy Page), guitar; Paul Cooper (John Bonham), drums, and Felix Hanemann (John Paul Jones), bass and keyboards.

The band performs four to six times a month. “We all have professional jobs, so we call ourselves weekend warriors,” says Violet.

Kashmir has performed at B.B. King’s, New York City; Mauch Chunk Opera House, Jim Thorpe, and The Golden Nugget Casino, Atlantic City, among many other venues.

The hope is to replicate a Led Zeppelin concert. “That’s a lot of the feedback we get,” says Violet. “Expect it to be a back-in-time, 1970s’ experience.”

Violet often sees three generations of fans in the audience. “We’re a cross-generational experience. It’s one of the few things that your grandparents can take his kid to, and their kid can take his kids to.”

Violet enjoys larger venues: “When you share your energy performing with a crowd, and they share it back, you really feel like you’re back at a Zeppelin show.”

The band utilizes vintage attire, lights, lasers and fog machines. “Our guitar player, who plays Jimmy Page, had a custom dragon suit made,” says Violet.

“Our main goal is to provide a live Zeppelin experience,” says Violet. The band tries not to sound like a record, but instead spotlight how Led Zeppelin performed live.

“A grandfather, who’s lived through the Seventies, can look at his grand-kid [while attending a Kashmir concert] and say, ‘You’re experiencing it the same way that I did.’

“And that’s pretty cool.”

Tickets: Sherman Theater box office, 524 Main St, Stroudsburg; shermantheater.com; 570-420-2808