In my city, there is a symphony called Orchestra Iowa. They do lots of concerts every year and most of them include only classical music. That kind of music is great but every so often they do a concert which is truly amazing; a concert of Rock Classics. This year they did a concert of Queen music and it was amazing. And the best part? Some of my fellow show choir members and I got to sing in the show!
The Band that they play with is amazing. They are a cover band called jeans and classics and their lead singer, Mike Shaw, sounds just like the original performers of the songs. That combined with the flawless orchestra performance was enough to give me goose bumps. But what was even better was that we got in for free. They set a whole section aside for the choir and let us watch the first part until intermission. Mike and the rest of the band performed right to us and made me feel like I was some sort of celebrity. That could have been that we were the most responsive people in the audience since the audience wasn't really planning to come to a rock concert. Still, I was happy he even acknowledged us because he could have just passed us off as a bunch of high schoolers that he wouldn't give the time of day.
The singer also came out and talked with all of the choir members before we went on for the final half of the concert. He was super fun to hang out with and didn't seem to mind our endless prodding for answers to our questions. When it was time to goon for our performance, the whole group was totally pumped. we got on stage at this professional show and I thought I would be more nervous than I had ever been on stage but it was completely different. I think I was more relaxed rocking out on stage with all my friends than when I sing by myself and I know no one is watching.
We sang seven songs: We stomped and sang We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Flash, You Take My Breath Away, Who Wants to Live Forever, Somebody to Love, and Bohemian Rhapsody. Those are some of of my favorite Queen songs and now I love them all even if I had never heard of them before. The choir was great at singing them and it made the songs that much more amazing to hear with about a 50 voice choir backing the band up.
At the end the band did Fat Bottom Girls and Too Much Love Will Kill You for the encores and we sang along with those because we all knew them even without music. we also held up our cell phones and ipod lighter apps for the final song. As my girlfriend said it was like looking at a star filled sky as we saw all the cell phones in the crowd. The whole concert was amazing and I can't wait until next year!
Here are some of the songs
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