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Music CDs have bonus tracks, DVDs have bonus features, and video games have bonus levels. For some reason we seem to love discovering additional content that benevolent producers include to enhance their offering. For the world's most popular video game concert event, Video Games Live, offering bonuses to its fans is at the heart of this year's global tour.
Dubbed the "Bonus Round", the tour is promised to be the biggest and best in its history, delivering all the fan favourite music such as Warcraft, Halo, Castlevania, Zelda and Final Fantasy, along with a ton of new content including music from games like Megaman, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, Street Fighter II, Shadow of the Colossus and many more.
Video Games Live is planning over 70 shows in 2011, including 16 shows in Canada, along with performances in the US, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.
The Canadian tour dates in 2011 are:
- Vancouver, BC Centre of Performing Arts -- April 13
- Vancouver, BC Centre of Performing Arts -- April 14
- Victoria, BC Royal Theatre -- April 15
- Calgary, AB Jack Singer Concert Hall -- April 17
- Edmonton, AB Jubilee Auditorium -- April 18
- Saskatoon, SK TCU Place -- April 20
- Regina, SK Conexus Arts Centre -- April 21
- Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre -- April 22
- Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre -- April 23
- Thunder Bay, ON Community Arts Center -- April 25
- Kitchener, ON Centre In The Square -- April 27
- Hamilton, ON Hamilton Place Theatre -- April 28
- Ottawa, ON Civic Centre Theatre -- April 29
- Montreal, QC Place Des Arts -- April 30
- Toronto, ON Massey Hall -- May 2
- Kingston, ON K-Rock Centre -- May 3
Concert goers should come early to experience the pre-show festival, including interactive game demos, a best-costume contest, prize giveaways, a merchandise table and a Guitar Hero competition. The post-show activities include meet and greet opportunities with the composers, sound designers, performers and special guests.
If you've never been to a Video Games Live performance picture a full symphony orchestra, complete with woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings, playing the best music from the most popular video games ever created. Add giant video screens as a backdrop playing exclusive footage from these popular video games perfectly synchronized to the music, and top it off with a cutting edge theatrical show replete with laser lights, special fx, live action, and special guest performers. The concerts even include an interactive video game component where a handful of lucky audience members are selected to play a video game on the large screens while the symphony plays interactively with them.
The brainchild of video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, the concert series made its debut on July 6th, 2005 at the world famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to an audience of over 11,000 people, making it largest video game concert ever created. After the enormous success of the debut concert, the music composers expanded the concert series internationally, performing in Canada, England, Mexico, New Zealand, France, and China among others. In 2008, the Video Games Live: Volume One was the first video game compilation album to be released by a major label, and debuted on the Billboard Charts at #10.
For more information check out the official website at www.videogameslive.com.
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