Freddie Songs of a Legend coming to New Port Richey

Freddie Songs of a Legend coming to New Port Richey

by | Nov 13, 2023 | Celebrating Queen News

The 3-man Freddie Mercury Tribute show, “Freddie: Songs of a Legend” comes to New Port Richey, Florida, and the Richey Suncoast Theatre on December 30th, 2023.

About the Freddie Show

Freddie: Songs of a Legend is a 3-man performance of the songs written by Freddie Mercury. The Freddie Set List will Take Your Breath Away, with all of Freddie’s Greatest Hits including Somebody to Love, Love of my Life, Bohemian Rhapsody, Love my Like There’s no Tomorrow, You Take my Breath Away, It’s a Beautiful Day and many more. Whether you are a Queen fan or not, there are a number of Queen Deep Cuts that you will really enjoy. The 3 musicians are experts in their respective instruments, from amazing vocals, and stunning backing vocals to sublime piano recreations of Queen hits.

The 30th December Show at the New Port Richey Suncoast Theatre

Freddie – Songs of a Legend comes to New Port Richey on December 30 with this show and we look forward to entertaining the people of New Port Richey and it’s surroundings. The Celebrating Queen band and the Freddie show have performed 5 times in the past 2 years here in Florida and most recently, we performed at the Cotee River Bike Fest in 2023.

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December 30th – New Port Richey Suncoast Theatre, Florida – 8pm

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Freddie – Songs of a Legend is a new  show that highlights the story of the Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, one Freddie Mercury. We bring the audience on a chronological journey from the first Queen album to the Made in Heaven album and also some of Freddie’s Solo works. The show includes hits like Killer Queen, My Melancholy Blues, you Take My Breath Away, It’s a Hard Life, and The Show Must Go On.

Celebrating Queen to Headline the Cotee River Bike Fest

Celebrating Queen to Headline the Cotee River Bike Fest

by | Oct 1, 2023 | Celebrating Queen News

On 14th October Celebrating Queen will be Headlining the Cotee River Bike Fest in New Port Richie, Florida.

Located only 45 minutes north of Tampa, New Port Richie is the location for the Cotee River Bike Fest which was founded in 2005. Now in its 18th year, this high-octane biker festival will be the perfect backdrop for Celebrating Queen. The Cotee Bike Festival has a lot to offer the biker/bike fan including tons of Pre-Owned Bikes, a large number of Live bands performing on Multiple Stages, a Large Bike Show, a large selection of Food and Beverage Vendors, and a lot more to enjoy including Celebrating Queen in the Headline Slot on Saturday 14th.

If you are looking for the best Queen tribute – come to New Port Richie on 14th October for Celebrating Queen Headlining at Cotee River

The Cotee River Bike Fest, New Port Richie, Florida

The Cotee Bike Festival was Founded in 2005 and takes place over three days in mid-October in the City of New Port Richey. All of the downtown streets of New Port Richey are blocked off to everything except motorcycles during the Cotee River Bike Fest. Many of the bikers are there to compete in over twenty classes of bike shows which are held on Saturday & Sunday.  There are 2 music stages & many bands will be performing over the weekend including ourselves – Celebrating Queen.

Freddie Show – Punta Gorda – 17th October

After we headline slot at the Cotee River Bike Fest, we then bring our unique 3-man show “Freddie: Songs of a Legend” to Punta Gorda, about 140 miles south of New Port Richie, and the venue this time is Cass Cay Punta Gorda. We performed the Freddie Tribute Show back in January 2023 and if you are in the Punta Gorda area and you want to hear some classic Freddie songs and a few Freddie / Queen deep cuts then come along to Cass Cay in Punta Gorda on 17th October for a great night. Within the Freddie show we bring the audience on a chronological journey from the first Queen album to the Made in Heaven album and also some of Freddie’s Solo works. The show includes hits like Killer Queen, My Melancholy Blues, you Take My Breath Away, It’s a Hard Life, and The Show Must Go On. 
The show will have a Theatrical showing in Liberty, MO on 6th January.

 

Don’t forget to subscribe to the Celebrating Queen Facebook. Instagram, Email Newsletter, and YouTube channels for more information on these and much more. If you are based in Florida and want to attend a Free Queen Concert, then come along to the Cotee River Bike Fest on 14th October.

Power Outage at Rockwell Theater but Our Show Still played on

Power Outage at Rockwell Theater but Our Show Still played on

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Celebrating Queen News

The inaugural performance at the Rockwell Theatre in Bristol Connecticut was Celebrating Queen on 9th September 2023.  The show had it all, great sound, great lighting, a great audience, and a cracking setlist. 48 minutes into our set, just as our amazing guitarist Steve Burchell was banging out the solo for Tie Your Mother Down, a lightning strike came down and wiped out the power to the Rockwell Theatre. The Power Outage at Rockwell Theater also affected 14,000 homes in the local area.

At that time the emergency lights at the venue came on and the audience and the band were unsure as to what had happened. The news soon came through that the whole area was out. Undeterred, Celebrating Queen decided to keep going with an impromptu performance of Doing All Right from Queen’s first album. Thankfully we had a beautiful grand piano so we could do something to entertain the audience while we awaited a decision from the venue on what would happen from that point.

Following the first song, the band decided to perform Love of My Life from the album A Night at The Opera, which was also featured in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. The audience lapped it up and loved what the band was doing to keep spirits up. Following that, the epic, Bohemian Rhapsody was performed in Full The audience joined in a rapturous song, singing every note from the verse to the opera section and into the hard headbanging rock section of the song. The audience loved it. Thankfully before the show Celebrating Queen had given access to all the lyrics to the show so the audience had no excuses not to join in.

Unfortunately, due to the emergency power quickly diminishing the decision was made to evacuate the audience from the theatre just in case all power failed. It was a disappointing end to the first show at the Rockwell and Celebrating Queen’s first show in Bristol in many years. However, Celebrating Queen WILL be back in Bristol very soon for a well-overdue do-over of this show.

Video of the audience performing Bohemian Rhapsody have been doing the rounds but you can find a very nice version below.

Thank you to the audience of Bristol Connecticut and the Rockwell Theatre.

You can find some press coverage of the Power Outage at Rockwell Theater incident below.

Power Outage at RockWell Theatre but performance shined through

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE Celebrating Queen: Live in Bristol – September 9th, 2023

PRESS RELEASE Celebrating Queen: Live in Bristol – September 9th, 2023

by | Sep 8, 2023 | Celebrating Queen News

Contact Information

Jeaux Archambeault
E: bookings@celebratingqueen.com
P: 213 306 9300

 

Release Date

5th September 2023

For Immediate Release

Celebrating Queen: Live in Bristol – September 9th, 2023

Bristol, Connecticut, September 9th 2023 – Bristol native Jeaux Archambeault also known as “J.J. Midnight” is excited to return to his hometown of Bristol to bring the music of Queen to the Rockwell Theater Saturday, September 9th.

Archambeault’s Queen Tribute band, “Celebrating Queen”, will perform Saturday, September 9th at 8 p.m. in the theater of the BAIMS School at 70 Memorial Boulevard. The concert is part of the “Downtown Live” series of performances scheduled for this year.

Celebrating Queen Live at the Rockwell Theatre is right off the back of Celebrating Queen performing a showcase gig at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas in August.

The Queen show at the Rockwell Theatre on September 9th starts at 8 pm and will be a show full of Queen hits, back to back; A wall of vocals, and the very best musicians you could ask for. You can expect all the Queen hits from Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen, Somebody to Love and Don’t Stop Me Now to One Vision, Hammer to Fall, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions, and many more. This will be a wonderful show for Queen fans and classic rock music lovers alike.

The Celebrating Queen setlist contains all the Queen hits you expect and love – It’s a Queen Tribute show not to be missed and it’s right with you in Bristol Connecticut.

Celebrating Queen has performed across the world since 2007 and is the Foremost Tribute to the Music of Queen. This is a homecoming Bristol natives Jeaux and Carl Archambeault as Celebrating Queen bring their show to their hometown. 

Recently, Jeaux has found a greater purpose for performing after he was knocked off his bicycle in Sarasota by an SUV, which led to him having a brain injury, the symptoms of which include deep depression, anxiety, and memory issues.

Jeaux has recently stated that “Singing releases an incredible amount of endorphins. It makes you feel good, it lifts depression, it helps with your memory. If I didn’t have singing, I don’t know what I would do”.

Jeaux and brother Carl also run the 501c3 Everybody Sings Project charity. With the project they have been able to go to different schools across the nation to promote the health benefits of singing. Jeaux put it as follows, “We may not be curing cancer, but we are doing some great things to help people improve their lives.” More information on the Everybody Sings Project can be found at https://www.everybodysingsproject.org/

About Celebrating Queen

The Celebrating Queen band is comprised of Jeaux Archambeault aka JJ Midnight on lead vocals, his brother Carl Archambeault aka CJ Midnight on Voicestravarius, Darrell Craig Harris on Bass, Steve Burchell on Guitar, James Sloan on Percussion, and Shane McDonald on keyboards & as Musical Director for our shows.

Additional Information & Resources

Imagery : Full Imagery & Logos for Celebrating Queen can be downloaded from WeTransfer at https://we.tl/t-T5Q4DkxDJ6

Promotional Video for Bristol CT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0BxgqPit4  

Sample Video of Celebrating Queen Live : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0scCipnh0

Official Celebrating Queen Website : https://celebratingqueen.com/

Further information & media available on request

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