Brian May News

Over 100 voices from across Greater Manchester have come together to honour and remember those lives lost on the front line during this global pandemic. The virtual choir is made up of singers from The Choir Project Community Choir & The Royal Northern College of Music and Deloitte staff choirs. They were joined by guest soloist Kerry Ellis.

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's videos, from stars including Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rob McClure, and more!

Today's top stories: A Strange Loop has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and more!

In today's Living Room Concert, West End leading lady Kerry Ellis gives us a special double performance: 'Your Song' from her new album Feels Like Home, and 'I Loved A Butterfly' from her 2010 album Anthems. Watch the video below! 

For the first time ever the casts of over 10 years of We Will Rock You past and present, from productions all over the world,  join together to sing one of the most sentimental Queen songs of the show. The performers were even joined by Queen guitarist Brian May!

Hooking up virtually between the UK and Los Angeles, Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor and singer Adam Lambert have recorded a new version of Queen's classic, “We Are The Champions.”

On April 29, Kerry Ellis is releasing her new podcast Keep Calm And Kerry On. The series is launching with three exclusive episodes with conversations including Arlene Phillips, Beverley Knight and Kimberley Walsh. Recorded entirely during Lockdown via remote recording, These interviews will give a rare insight to the lives of the stars as they deal with life during this time.

Following the closure of all UK theatres, the 2020 UK tour of Queen & Ben Elton's smash hit musical 'We Will Rock You' has been rescheduled for early 2021.

Queen + Adam Lambert regretfully announced today that their upcoming 27-date UK & European Rhapsody tour is being postponed due to the on-going global coronavirus outbreak.

Queen guitarist Brian May is teaching fans how to play Keep Yourself Alive.

SA's own Dominic Warren brings the highly anticipated Queen: It's A Kinda Magic world tour to Sibaya's Izulu Theatre from 10 to 26 April.

Cannery Casino Hotel will host its annual Cannerystock Music Fest, featuring iconic '80s hits at The Club on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4. April entertainment at Cannery will also feature performances by Yellow Brick Road, “Queen Nation – Tribute to Queen” and The Whispers with Evelyn “Champagne” King. Guests can also enjoy the live boxing event, Showtime at the Cannery, and free live entertainment at Pin-Ups Bar and Victory's Bar & Grill throughout April.

Queen Extravaganza, the official Queen tribute band produced by Roger Taylor and Brian May, return to the UK in 2021 following their sell out shows across the globe. Queen Extravaganza will be launching their exciting Rock Tribute shows from 13th January celebrating 50 years of Queen and performing their greatest hits across 26 dates, including a special performance at the Eventim Apollo in London on 23rd January following in the footsteps of Queen whose legendary 1975 UK tour was immortalised with (the live recording of) “A Night at the Odeon”.

Kerry Ellis is known as the first lady of the West End, thanks to her leading roles in shows like Wicked, My Fair Lady and We Will Rock You, plus a busy concert schedule. She spoke to BroadwayWorld about her career and one of her latest projects, the Queen Machine Symphonic UK tour - a tribute to the music of Queen with a bumper-sized orchestra and band in tow.

Concertgoers attending the Sunday 16 February Fire Fight Australia benefit concert for National Bushfire Relief, which took place at Australia's ANZ Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park, had a unique chance to share in a piece of rock history revisited when Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor, now fronted by permanent singer Adam Lambert, took to the stage.

It is marked as the most defining moment in the majestic history of Queen a?" when the band took to the stage of London's Wembley Stadium to perform at 'the Greatest Show on Earth', the 13 July 1985 worldwide Live Aid concert beamed by satellite to 160 countries and watched by an audience of 1.5 billion worldwide, 72,000 of them in Wembley Stadium.

Michael Griffiths, Australia's king of one-man cabaret shows, is returning to the McCallum Theatre at 7:00pm., Sunday, Feb. 16, bringing back Cole, his one-man tribute to the great Cole Porter. How insanely talented is Michael Griffiths? Cole will be taking place just hours before he takes the McCallum stage for an evening performance of In Vogue: Songs by Madonna.

Heavy Pettin' first stirred into action when vocalist Hamie, guitarists Gordon Bonnar and Punky Mendoza, drummer Gary Moat and bassist Brian Waugh first burst out of Glasgow in 1981. They were vibrant, priapic, anthemic and focused. As they showed on a three-track demo, and on the subsequent debut single for independent label Neat ('Roll The Dice'__/'Love Xs Love'), they were more than mere Def Leppard slaves. In fact, the Pettin' had an international sound that owed something to AC/DC, UFO, Thin Lizzy and Foreigner, but also had its own raging momentum.

Jeff Parry was raised in Ottawa, ON. His love of music began when he was 9 years old when he fell in love with The Beatles. He has always had a passion for. music, so after University, he moved out west to try to raise money to open a record store in Ottawa. He wound up staying in Alberta and rather than open a record store, in 1978, he started a concert promotion business, producing tribute shows. That evolved into becoming an agent and ultimately, a theatrical producer. I had the chance to speak with Parry on the eve of the Montreal run of the award winning musical, WE WILL ROCK YOU, a jukebox musical based on the songs of British rock band Queen with a book by Ben Elton, which lands in Montreal on February 10.