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Chris, an African-American man, decides to visit his Caucasian girlfriend's parents during a weekend getaway. Although they seem normal at first, he is not prepared to experience the horrors ahead. 2017. Written and directed by Jordan Peele
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2016 Academy Award winner for Best Picture directed by Barry Jenkins. A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.
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It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday. 1995 Starring Ice Cube & Chris Tucker. Directed by F. Gary Gray
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The Altons, a standout in the West Coast souldies scene, have risen from Southeast Los Angeles nightclubs to acclaimed stages like Austin City Limits and the Montreal Jazz Festival. As part of Daptone Records' Penrose imprint, they've drawn audiences with Adriana Flores and Bryan Ponce’s captivating vocal interplay, supported by Caitlin Moss on drums and Chris "Bolillo" Manjarrez on bass. Their track “When You Go (That’s When You’ll Know),” even sampled by Mary J. Blige, highlights their broad appeal.
Their debut album, Heartache in Room 14, produced by Bosco Mann, marks a new creative chapter. Ponce reflects, "This album changed our approach to songwriting and recording," while Flores adds, "Working with Gabe at Penrose reshaped our songwriting." Tracks like “Waiting” reveal their lyrical depth, while “Del cielo te cuido” and “Perdóname” blend traditional bolero roots with modern instrumentation. “Your Light” adds a dreamy, heartfelt touch to the album’s diverse sounds.
Set for release in early 2025 alongside a worldwide tour, Heartache in Room 14 promises to elevate The Altons' soul-infused storytelling to new audiences globally.
Thee Sinseers:
Straight out of East L.A. and led by multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer-songwriter Joseph Quiñones, Thee Sinseers feature a full brass section led by Eric Johnson (Tenor sax), Steve Surman (Bari sax) and Joseluis Jimenez (trombone). The line up also includes sweet harmonies and a tight rhythm section consisting of Christopher Manjarrez (Bass), Francisco Flores (Guitar), Bryan Ponce (Guitar/vox), Luis Carpio (Drums/vox) and Adriana Flores (Vox). Together they are a part of a community of musicians who are tying together the nostalgic and the classic with the innovative and the new to bring a unique sound to soul music.
Thee Sinseers are part of the Colemine Records family led by Terry Cole, who released their first singles, “It Was Only A Dream” and “I Don’t Mind” in 2019, with a full length LP, “Sinseerly Yours” releasing in March 2024. The band’s song “Seems Like” was also included in the inaugural compilation, “Presenting Penrose Records” from the Penrose imprint of the renowned, Brooklyn-based label, Daptone Records. The song “It Was Only A Dream” was featured in the feature film “Self Reliance” starring Jake Johnson, and in the TV show, “Riverdale”
To date, Thee Sinseers have dazzled audiences across the country in soul strongholds such as California, Texas, New York, Chicago, Oregon, and more. The road is paved in love and soul and Thee Sinseers are on their way to a venue near you soon.
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Paula Poundstone is known for her smart, observational humor and a spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. Time magazine, in the March 2020 “Best of” issue, listed Paula’s HBO special, Cats, Cops and Stuff as one of The 5 Funniest Stand-Up Specials Ever. Paula can be heard weekly as the host of the comedy podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone and as a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
Also an author, Poundstone’s second book, The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness (Algonquin 2017) was one of eight semi-finalists for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, the highest recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States. The audiobook was one of five finalists for the Audio Book of the Year AUDIE award.
Paula was the first female comic, in its then 73rd year, to perform at the White House Correspondents dinner. She was the first female standup, in its then 5th year, to win the ACE award for Best Comedy Special on Cable television. She is included in innumerable lists, documentaries and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.
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Stavros Halkias is a comedian, actor, and writer originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently based in Queens, New York. His latest special "Fat Rascal" is out now on Netflix. His debut special, “Live at the Lodge Room” reached a million views in its first four days and currently sits at over 6.4 million views. Last year, he was named to Vulture’s 2023 list of “Comedians You Should and Will Know,” and identified by GQ as “at the front of a new wave of comedians.” His podcast “Stavvy’s World” debuted at #3 on the iTunes comedy charts and garnered hundreds of thousands of subscribers in its first year. He’s a former co-host and founding member of the popular podcast “Cum Town,” which ran from 2016-2022 and he was recently featured in Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi series “Command Z.” He’s set to lead his own feature in 2024, starring in the upcoming road-movie comedy “Let's Start a Cult”, which he co-wrote. Halkias is also an accomplished model, walking in Kid Super’s Paris fashion week show in 2023 where he was described by Vogue as “the plus-est of plus size models”. His goal is to get just famous enough to buy his mother a nice home and then quit show business to open a surf and turf restaurant in East Baltimore.
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Stavros Halkias is a comedian, actor, and writer originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently based in Queens, New York. His latest special "Fat Rascal" is out now on Netflix. His debut special, “Live at the Lodge Room” reached a million views in its first four days and currently sits at over 6.4 million views. Last year, he was named to Vulture’s 2023 list of “Comedians You Should and Will Know,” and identified by GQ as “at the front of a new wave of comedians.” His podcast “Stavvy’s World” debuted at #3 on the iTunes comedy charts and garnered hundreds of thousands of subscribers in its first year. He’s a former co-host and founding member of the popular podcast “Cum Town,” which ran from 2016-2022 and he was recently featured in Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi series “Command Z.” He’s set to lead his own feature in 2024, starring in the upcoming road-movie comedy “Let's Start a Cult”, which he co-wrote. Halkias is also an accomplished model, walking in Kid Super’s Paris fashion week show in 2023 where he was described by Vogue as “the plus-est of plus size models”. His goal is to get just famous enough to buy his mother a nice home and then quit show business to open a surf and turf restaurant in East Baltimore.
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Outback Presents: Ali Siddiq - In the Shadows
VIP Ticket to include:
· One Top Price Reserved Ticket in best available seating
· One Meet Greet with Ali Siddiq
Ali Siddiq is a stand-up comedian and public speaker out of Houston, TX. Ali’s unique style of stand-up began behind the walls of incarceration, an incubator for interesting experiences and good stories. In 2022, Ali released two hour specials… THE DOMINO EFFECT on YouTube and UNPROTECTED SETS on EPIX. To date, THE DOMINO EFFECT has over 14 million views, ranking it in the top 5 most watched comedy specials of 2022. The NY Times described it as “a genre-defying autobiographical epic”. In May 2023, Ali released THE DOMINO EFFECT part 2: LOSS, the sequel to his viral stand-up special, which has over 6 million views to date. And in 2024, Ali released two more specials in the series. THE DOMINO EFFECT PART 3: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL premiered on YouTube May 12 with over 4 million views, and THE DOMINO EFFECT PART 4: PINS & NEEDLES premiered on YouTube June 16, 2024 with over 3.5 million views. In 2025, Ali will be releasing five more hour specials, an unprecedented fete for any comedian.
People received their first taste of Ali Siddiq when he appeared on HBO's DEF COMEDY JAM and LIVE FROM GOTHAM, and in 2013 he was named Comedy Central's "#1 Comic to Watch". In 2014, Ali impressed comedy enthusiasts by displaying his ability to captivate an audience with his "Mexicans Got On Boots" tale, a descriptive storytelling, with over 14 million views, of a prison riot on THIS IS NOT HAPPENING, the first of three appearances. His stories continued with his HALF HOUR special, which premiered on Comedy Central in the Fall of 2016. Immediately following the premier of that special, Comedy Central offered Ali an hour-special where he performed for inmates live in a Texas jail, sending Ali back to where it all started. The hour special, Ali Siddiq: It’s Bigger Than These Bars, premiered in February 2018 on Comedy Central and has over 2.5 million views on YouTube. In 2019, Ali was a top 5 finalist on NBC’s BRING THE FUNNY. He also appeared as a regular cast member on the reboot of PUNK’D for Quibi.
Additionally, Ali has appeared on several popular podcasts and TV shows like The Joe Rogan Experience, 85 South, Kill Tony, Good Morning America, Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz, Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, Bertcast, Pour Minds and many others.
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After getting kicked out of the police academy, Alfred Robles rose to become one of the hottest young comedians in the country. Two years into his comedy career, Alfred was featured in the hit show "Loco Comedy Jam" and the Latino Laugh Festival. He was the only comedian to be featured on all 3 seasons of Stand Up Revolution on Comedy Central. Alfred is currently on a world wide tour with Gabriel Iglesias, and was one of the first comedians to perform at Dodger Stadium alongside Gabriel Iglesias. Alfred was also featured on “Mr. Iglesias” on Netflix, “Entre Nos” on HBO, and is currently working on his hour special.
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After getting kicked out of the police academy, Alfred Robles rose to become one of the hottest young comedians in the country. Two years into his comedy career, Alfred was featured in the hit show "Loco Comedy Jam" and the Latino Laugh Festival. He was the only comedian to be featured on all 3 seasons of Stand Up Revolution on Comedy Central. Alfred is currently on a world wide tour with Gabriel Iglesias, and was one of the first comedians to perform at Dodger Stadium alongside Gabriel Iglesias. Alfred was also featured on “Mr. Iglesias” on Netflix, “Entre Nos” on HBO, and is currently working on his hour special.
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Attention all ABBA fans! Circle April 3rd, 2025 on your calendars because ABRA Cadabra, Vancouver Canada's renowned ABBA Tribute brings their all ages and family friendly stage extravaganza to Fresno for the first time!
Featuring a dynamic live band, stunning vocals, captivating dancers, and authentic costumes. Prepare for an interactive stage extravaganza that will have you dancing, singing along, and reliving the magic of ABBA's greatest hits including Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Take A Chance, SOS, Waterloo, Fernando, and many more!
ABRA Cadabra has been wowing audiences worldwide for over 20 years, bringing the timeless music of ABBA to diverse audiences across continents. Their impressive résumé includes performances for the Malaysian Royal Family, iconic venues such as The Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and Universal Studios in Florida, and numerous theaters and concert halls across Canada and beyond.
For more details, visit www.iloveabba.com or connect with ABRA Cadabra on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TributeToABBA
“Best show we've ever seen!” – Gilberte Nowlan – Moncton, NB
“OMG!!! What a spectacular show last night in Saint John!!! Thank you and come back soon… PLEASE!!!” - Judy McNab – Saint John, NB
“Labels like "tribute" band don't cut it with these people. Powerful, tight bang-on lite-em-up delivery with a real joy in the performance! I would go see them again anywhere, anytime!” - Rob Randall – White Rock, BC
“I wanted to give a giant thank you, thank you, thank you for your show in Kelowna. We had so much fun and enjoyed it so much that I can't even put it into words. We were all grinning ear to ear! You sounded so great and were so on point. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for giving us all such a fun, special evening” - Dylan & Cavelle Wurfel – Kelowna, BC
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Fresno’s only Rock ‘n Roll Choir, HEARTS ON FIRE has been performing on the local scene since 2013. Under the direction of Debi Ruud, the choir strives to share love and music that opens the hearts of its audiences. With Debi’s creative and carefully crafted 4-part harmonies, the choir has marked its performances with hit songs from artists including The Beatles, Prince, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Earth Wind and Fire, the B52s, and many others. The 50+ member Choir ensemble will be on stage at the Tower Theatre on Saturday April 5 to perform an audience pleasing set of tunes that are guaranteed to live up to the promise “WE WILL ROCK YOU!” The playlist of unforgettable songs includes hits by Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, and many others.
The Tower District’s own Nate Butler, a well-respected musician and producer of a wealth of creative shows, will accompany the choir with a rockin’ all-star band.
This concert is being presented under the auspices of the Peace Rocks Foundation, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization whose mission is to “promote peace, unity, and cultural diversity through activities, programs, and events, in art, music and education.” The event is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council.
We invite you to join us and the Hearts on Fire Rock n’ Roll Choir for a wonderful and exciting evening of music and fun while supporting the Peace Rocks Foundation and its work in the community. Please join us as we “Come Together” with People Engaging in Arts, Culture and Education.
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Colin Patrick Harper hails from the tiny island of Bermuda. In the music industry, he is known as the reggae artist Collie Buddz. Buddz was born on August 21, 1984 in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from high school, he attended Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL, where he decided to study studio engineering. Upon graduating from the top in his class at Full Sail in 2006, Buddz began looking for work in the recording industry as a performer or producer. One of his first major gigs was working with recording star Shaggy on the single "Mad Mad World" from Shaggy's new album at the time entitled Intoxication, which was released in 2007. That was the same year Collie released his self-titled debut album with Sony Music with tracks such as ‘Come Around’ and ‘Blind To You’. The album was a success and well-received by critics. WWE (World Wrestling Enterprises) fans would immediately recognize Buddz's voice from the entrance theme ("SOS") for WWE superstar wrestler Kofi Kingston, which was included on the 2008 compilation WWE The Music, Vol. 8. Over the next year, he would continue making guest appearances on the works of many other artists.
It is no small coincidence that his stage name "Buddz" is slang for marijuana. There have been photographs taken of the artist holding bongs and other pot-smoking paraphernalia over the years. Of course, other reggae artists such as Bob Marley have made weed seem an essential part of the reggae lifestyle. When not working in the studio, Collie found himself selling out venue after venue on one of his many exhaustive tours. Now with new music being released and a good reputation under his belt, Buddz finds himself playing at some of the biggest reggae music festivals all across the world such as, Reggae Rise Up, One Love New Zealand, and California Roots Music Festival
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Los Mirlos is a group dedicated to promoting the music and culture of the Peruvian Amazon. Although it was formed in Lima in 1973, its true roots are in Moyobamba, the city where its members were born and began their musical careers.
As pioneers of psychedelic Amazonian cumbia, Los Mirlos have spent 50 years performing worldwide, proudly showcasing the distinctive rhythms of the Peruvian jungle. Today, they are a prominent influence, known for a sound that has evolved and endured through changing musical trends. The group continues to engage a young audience eager to explore new textures and rediscover the origins of this unique genre.
Los Mirlos es un grupo dedicado a promover la música y la cultura de la Amazonía peruana. Aunque se formó en Lima en 1973, sus verdaderas raíces están en Moyobamba, la ciudad donde sus miembros nacieron y comenzaron sus carreras musicales.
Como pioneros de la cumbia psicodélica amazónica, Los Mirlos han pasado 50 años actuando en todo el mundo, mostrando con orgullo los ritmos distintivos de la selva peruana. Hoy en día, son una influencia destacada, conocidos por un sonido que ha evolucionado y perdurado a través de las tendencias musicales cambiantes. El grupo continúa atrayendo a un público joven ansioso por explorar nuevas texturas y redescubrir los orígenes de este género único.
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Tycho is embarking on their first headlining tour since 2020. Following the release of Weather in 2019, the band returns to their roots, delivering their signature blend of electronic dance music and melody-driven instrumental post-rock. Scott Hansen’s creative vision, delicate melodies, and mesmerizing soundscapes take on new energy in the live setting, thanks to the incredible drumming of Rory O’Connor and an immersive visual experience. With guitarist/bassist Zac Brown and multi-instrumentalist Billy Kim rounding out the lineup, Tycho has been captivating fans for over a decade.
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Witness 30+ international super hits written and performed by the Bee Gees (along with a few surprises). Our tribute pays homage to the Bee Gees at the peak of their fame, showcasing the energy, creativity, and appeal that took the world by storm. You'll be treated to a night of dancing, soaring falsettos, and some of the best songs ever written.
What are you waiting for? YOU should be dancing!
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LED ZEPAGAIN
A Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Led Zepagain, the longest-standing tribute to Led Zeppelinin the world today, celebrating over 35 years in existence. LED ZEPAGAIN captures the heart and soul of “the world’s greatest band”, replicating the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience. Jimmy Page says, "It's as close as you'll ever get to the real deal."
Led Zepagain were also invited by Page to attend Led Zeppelin's 2007 Reunion Concert at London's O2 Arena by invitation of Mr. Page. Additionally, the band received a surprise visit from Jason Bonham as he sat in with the band on their encore performance of “Rock and Roll:”
LED ZEPAGAIN has been featured on AXS TV’s “World’s Greatest Tribute Bands” and were asked to return, performing the iconic Led Zeppelin album “lV” in its entirety. The band has also entered pop culture, having been mentioned on network TV shows “The Gilmore Girls”, “Chicago Fire” and “Bad Judge.” The band consists of vocalist/harmonica player Swan Montgomery (“Robert Plant”), guitarist/mandolinist Anthony David Thymiakos (“JimmyPage”), bassist/keyboardist/mandolin Jim Wootten (“John Paul Jones”) and drummer/percussionist Greg Thompson (“John Bonham”), playing to packed houses around the world. From the sound and the look to the vintage equipment and costuming, LED ZEPAGAIN will be the closest thing that you will ever see to a live Led Zeppelin performance! Come on out and see what Jimmy Pagewas talking about.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page himself attended a Led Zepagain show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. He was absolutely astonished at the bands accuracy stating “It’s amazing how much you sound like us. You must have grown up on this because you were inside the music, and you paid attention to detail in your presentation...I can tell you guys really love our music!”
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ISMO: WOO HOO! WORLD TOUR
ISMO is often called “the most insightful comic in Finland.” Now a resident in the United States, he continues to be the ultimate observer of culture and master of word-play. His sharp writing and uniquely hilarious delivery makes quick-fans of people of all backgrounds.
No matter where you are in the world, ISMO has an undeniable ability to make people see familiar cultural norms in an entirely new way! ISMO’s WOO HOO! WORLD TOUR kicks off in Australia and New Zealand in November 2024 and will expand across the U.S., Europe, Canada and beyond in 2025.
ISMO was the first Finnish comedian to perform on CONAN and the clip of his performance has become one of the most viewed late-night sets with over 135 million views! His debut appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden brought an overwhelming response and new level of success, garnering astronomical growth on his social media. ISMO hit the road almost non-stop with sold-out performances in clubs and theaters internationally.
He attracted big fans such as Gabriel Iglesias who asked ISMO to open for his groundbreaking special at Dodger Stadium in front of 60,000 fans. Later in 2023 ISMO opened for Gabriel at the 02 Arena in London. ISMO went on to sell-out his own European tour, adding a 2nd show in each city with plans for a larger-scale return in 2025.
Check out ISMO’s social media for weekly stand up clips and hilarious thoughts from the road. You can sign up for ISMO’s newsletter to get tour updates, exclusive merch offers and special announcements at: https://www.ismo.fun
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Comedian. Actor. Musician. Advocate. Entrepreneur. Five-time Grammy and Emmy nominee. When hasn’t Margaret Cho’s strong voice been part of our consciousness? It feels like she has always been here, like a friend you can always count on, lighting the path for other women, other members of underrepresented groups, other performers, to follow.
Margaret staunchly supports the causes that are important to her: anti-racism, anti-bullying, gay rights, all while fulfilling her successful creative side with a legendary stand up career that has yielded 10-plus comedy tours. Her recent television & movie roles include “Erin” in HULU’s smash Fire Island, guest starring on the Ryan Murphy hit Doctor Odyssey, The Flight Attendant (HBO Max), Hacks (HBO Max) and two Netflix is a Joke comedy specials including Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution. Margaret’s latest film, All That We Love, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, earning Margaret rave reviews, and she is set to star as “Wasp,” one of the “Gray Sisters” in Season 2 of Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians as well as in Gregg Araki’s movie thriller I Want Your Sex.
Margaret, who Vogue magazine named one of the 9 best female comedians of all time, alongside Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wanda Sykes, appreciates where she finds herself right now. “I think comedians in general, we get better as we get older, and we kind of get more observant, and more astute in those observations."
Thankfully, Margaret has more stories to tell, and her production company, Animal Family Productions, has multiple scripted shows in development for 2024 and beyond.
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This show has been rescheduled from Feb 21st
All original tickets will be honored for the new date. Refunds will be available until Thursday Jan 23rd
STEVE TREVIÑO
Comedian Steve Treviño is “America’s Favorite Husband.” He can “speak wife fluently,” he never
calls “the guys” for help on a home project, and he knows better than to “make his own decisions,”
since decision-making is a privilege reserved solely for his wife, Renae.
His relatable approach affirms his status as one of the country’s fastest-rising comics, viewed over
223 million times, selling out shows coast-to-coast, amassing over 2 million total social media
followers, and headlining specials for Amazon, NETFLIX, Showtime, and more.
He started cutting his teeth in Dallas, Texas, working as a door guy at the Improv and earning
himself a spot to open the iconic 2001 Three Amigos Comedy Tour. He quickly earned his stripes
and an audience on the comedy club circuit, and he began headlining on his own by the age of
25. He delivered side-splitting performances on The Late Late Show and Comics Unleashed, and
produced and wrote for international GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar Pitbull’s La Esquina.
His first Showtime special, Grandpa Joe’s Son, staked out a spot in the Nielsen Top 20. He
funded, produced, and shot his 2014 runaway NETFLIX hit Relatable. To promote the special, he
uploaded a clip titled “When Your Wife Comes Home From Shopping.” It exploded, generating 56
million views on Facebook alone and paving the way for heavily shared clips such as “When You
Ask Your Wife If She Wants McDonald’s” (21 million views) and “When Going to Vegas With Your
Wife Goes Wrong” (4 million views). Co-produced by Nacelle, the follow-up special, Steve Trevino
’Til Death, arrived in 2018. Steve maintained his momentum by broadening his social media
presence through fans redoing bits of his comedy specials and posting them to TikTok. In less
than two years, that grassroots effort helped him build a worldwide fanbase on the platform from
the ground up, amassing 4.8 million likes and over 50 million views on the platform, while also
changing up his entire social media game.
In 2020, he and his wife, Renae, unveiled a joint weekly podcast entitled “Steve Treviño and
Captain Evil,” that has generated over 1.5 million views/streams and is now in Season 3. He also
filmed his fourth self-produced comedy special, My Life in Quarantine, which was picked up by
Amazon Prime. The once-in-a-lifetime pandemic special was shot in front of a masked, socially
distant crowd and focused on the ups and downs of getting through quarantine.
He regularly raises money for Helicopters for Heroes, an organization benefiting veterans, for
whom he helped raise over $1.5 million in the past two years.
Steve's self produced fifth special filmed in Waco, Texas, entitled I Speak Wife, independently
released on Friday, October 21, for free exclusively to his global audience on YouTube.
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Multi-platinum selling, Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Geoff Tate is best known for his 30-plus years as the creative and driving force behind the progressive metal band Queensryche. Since its inception with Geoff at the helm, Queensryche has sold over 20 million albums worldwide and has performed in upwards of fifty countries. Geoff is regarded as one of the most skilled vocalists in the genre with hundreds of modern, popular artists citing him and his former band as a major influence. Combining social consciousness and expertly crafted lyrics with high-energy, melodically complex music, Queensryche with Geoff Tate at the forefront became internationally recognized as the thinking man's rock band. The band's first three albums -- their self-titled EP (1983), The Warning (1984) and Rage for Order (1986) -- all hit gold status selling over 500,000 units each.
With the release of their landmark concept album Operation: Mindcrime (1988) -- which won critical and popular acclaim and comparisons to the Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Wall -- Queensryche went on to bring their progressive music to sold-out audiences the world over. Following the album's platinum success, Queensryche released Empire, which quickly entered the Top Ten on the Billboard charts, eventually generating sales of more than three million copies. The album featured the hugely popular hit, "Silent Lucidity," which would be the band's first Top Ten single (#9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart). Geoff and the band would ultimately perform the Grammy nominated song live at the Grammy awards accompanied by a supporting orchestra. In all, Queensryche has been nominated for a Grammy four times and has had their music featured in three feature films.
In 2006, the band released Operation: Mindcrime II, a scorching sequel to their original 1988 tale of "Rock, Revenge and Redemption." The band would soon hit the road performing both albums back-to-back in their entirety in an incredible theatrical presentation. The spectacle would be captured on Mindcrime at the Moore, a double CD/DVD release so popular that the DVD would debut at #1 on Billboard's Top Music DVD chart and eventually reach gold status. Shortly after the release of that hugely successful set, Queensryche would release another gem in 2007 titled, Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensryche, that featured 17 career-spanning tracks including seven Top 10 hits with a two-CD deluxe Collector's Edition that added fifteen rare and previously unreleased recordings. Later that year, the band found themselves on the fall leg of the highly acclaimed Heaven and Hell Tour with the late, great Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice along with other special guest, Alice Cooper. The year would culminate with the release of Take Cover, an adventurous 11-song collection of covers ranging from Black Sabbath to Broadway.
In early 2009, Queensryche released American Soldier (via Atco/Rhino Records), a concept album inspired by the stories of military veterans that examines the consequences of war from the soldier's perspective... yet another effort that will solidify Geoff and the band in rock history. A truly memorable experience, the band met with, and performed for, troops in both the U.S. and the Middle East. In the year 2010, Queensryche would, once again, display their immense creativity by presenting the Queensryche Cabaret, which was heralded as "the first adults-only rock show." In 2011, the band would find themselves celebrating their 30th Anniversary in rock,
marking the occasion with the release of Dedicated to Chaos (Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud) and an extensive support tour.
At the end of 2012, Geoff released his first solo album in over a decade titled, Kings & Thieves (InsideOut Music), that was quickly followed by the news of a 25th Anniversary Mindcrime Tour that would encompass the United States in 2013. Also that year, Geoff would release what would be his last album under the Queensryche name, Frequency Unknown (Cleopatra Records), an effort that would feature such guest musicians as Ty Tabor, K.K. Downing, Brad Gillis, Dave Meniketti and Chris Poland along with the members of his version of Queensryche at the time - Rudy Sarzo, Robert Sarzo, Simon Wright, Kelly Gray and Randy Gane.
In 2014, it was announced that Geoff and his band mates would be embarking on their farewell tour as Queensryche, with a subsequent announcement stating that Queensryche with original lead singer Geoff Tate would be changing its name to "Operation: Mindcrime" in September for future tours and recordings. By the end of the year, Geoff began working on one of his most
ambitious works to date, an entirely new concept album, titled The Key, that would be the first in a trilogy. Released in September of 2015 (Frontiers Music SRL), the debut album examined the question, "What would you do if you discovered the key to changing the way we view the world, the way we look at time, the way we travel, and could essentially change the human condition --
for better or for worse?" Next in the trilogy would be 2016's Resurrection, completed by 2017's The New Reality. All three albums were followed up with international tours that included extensive tours of the United States.
Beginning in March 2025, Geoff and the current line-up of Operation: Mindcrime, hit the road to celebrate the final chapter of Operation: Mindcrime, performing the 1988 landmark concept album from beginning to end in its entirety... It's a show that Geoff loves to perform and fans love to see, only proving that good music never goes out of style. As always, Geoff looks forward to the musical journey that lies ahead and can’t wait to perform his next big rock show.
WITH FIRE & WATER
Fire & Water have performed alongside esteemed acts such as the Alabama
3, Fun Lovin Criminals, Eric Martin, Aslan and Geoff Tate.
Some highlights of Fire & Water over the last few years include a European
tour spanning 20 countries, sharing the stage with world-renowned
artists. Fire & Water have highly anticipated brand new music ready for release
which will be followed by a massive US & European tour in 2024.
