Video Games Live has once again teamed up with E3 (Electronic Entertainment Exposition) to continue its 10 year tradition of pulling out all the stops for its annual Los Angeles show by announcing a cavalcade of special guests, first time ever music premieres, industry stars, and incredible prizes. The performance will take place on Wednesday, June 11th at the Nokia Theatre positioned directly across the street from E3.
Game composer and Video Games Live creator/executive producer Tommy Tallarico shared with fans that they typically like to keep their setlist a secret” but there are so many incredible performances, spectacular performers and industry special guests that he decided this time around to publish almost the entire setlist to the public as nothing like this has ever been attempted for a video game concert anywhere in the world!  He even goes on to state that this will be one of the biggest shows that Video Games Live has put on.
SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION: For those that didn’t know, we did an interview with Tommy Tallarico here at COG and you can read it right HERE for a more in-depth understanding of what makes the creator/executive producer of Video Games Live such an interesting character and a man who is passionate about what he does.
Ok, back on track, you can see the a list of many of the people who will be at the E3 show of Video Games Live right below (taken from the Videogames Live website):
- World premiere of music from Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated upcoming World of Warcraft® expansion,Warlords of Draenor™, conducted by Audio Director and Composer Russell Brower.
- Tetris® game creator Alexey Pajitnov along with Tetris executives Henk Rogers and Maya Rogers set to debut a new segment in celebration of the Tetris 30th Anniversary.Â
- YouTube sensation Malukah performing her song “Dragonborn Comes” from Skyrim (over 40 million+ views).
- The Interactive Musical World Premiere of Disney Interactive and Harmonix’s yet to be released breakthrough musical motion video game, Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved featuring DJ sensation Cole Plante and award-winning game composer Inon Zur.
- World premiere of League of Legends® with composer Christian Linke. Including a special arrangement featuring world famous film score pianist/composer/conductor/orchestrator Randy Kerber (Star Wars, Titanic, X-Men, Forrest Gump, Amazing Spider-Man, Batman, Resident Evil 5, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra) and flautist Amy Tatum(Call of Duty, The Sims, Yo-Yo Ma, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder).
- Music from the Halo trilogy featuring composers Marty O’Donnell & Mike Salvatori.
- Award-Winning Composer Garry Schyman conducting a World Premiere of his music from BioShock: Infinite and the original BioShock featuring internet superstar violinist Taylor Davis (Violin Tay).
- YouTube vocal sensation Peter Hollens performing the World Premiere of his incredible Portal 2 arrangement (featuringMystery Guitar Man).
- World Premiere of the “Aria Di Mezzo Carattere (Opera Theme)” from Final Fantasy VI arranged and performed byJillian Aversa (God of War, Halo, Civilization, Soul Calibur) and Andrew Aversa (Street Fighter IV: Remix).
- Grammy Award Winning composer Christopher Tin conducting the first and only Grammy Award Winning video game song “Baba Yetu” from Civilization IV featuring Peter Hollens.
- Video Game band Critical Hit to perform their World Premiere of Mega Man and Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™. Critical Hit includes violinist Taylor Davis, Warcraft/Blizzard composer Jason Hayes, Grammy winning guitarist Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney, The Spy Who Loved Me, Dirty Dancing, The Muppet Movie, Pocahontas), cellist Ginger Murphy(Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Snoop Dog, Josh Groban, Red Hot Chilli Pepper), woodwind great Pedro Eustache (Paul McCartney, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Passion of the Christ, Yanni), award-winning pianist Salome Scheidegger, percussionist extraordinaire Joel Taylor (Guitar Hero, Rock Band, David Foster, Yanni) and world renowned bassist Carlitos Del Puerto (Bruce Springsteen, Sting, John Williams, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones).
- Austin Wintory conducting his Grammy Nominated music from Journey and the World Premiere of Banner Sagafeaturing Malukah & Peter Hollens on vocals and Taylor Davis on violin.
- Monkey Island featuring original LucasArts composer Peter McConnell!
- Blizzard/Zelda concert special guest Eimear Noone to conduct Kingdom Hearts.
- World Premiere of the critically acclaimed indie game Cave Story.  Music written by Cave Story game designer Daisuke Amaya.
- Also performing Shadow of the Colossus, Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Castlevania AND MANY MORE!!
During the show, the world’s leading record label dedicated to releasing video game soundtracks, Sumthing.com is giving away a year of free music downloads to three lucky winners. Sumthing’s catalog (over 250 albums!) features some of the most popular soundtracks of all time such as HALO, Castlevania, Deus Ex, Fable, Hitman, Journey, Mass Effect, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Uncharted and many more! Prize will be awarded on stage during the show to lucky winners (any ticket holder will be able to enter).
The ever popular pre-show costume contest will be in full effect right before the show starts as each costumed member will be brought on stage as the audience decides the winner by volume of applause.
And as for those new dates announced.  Well, the crew at Video Games Live is also proud to announce the performance of over 60 shows around the world taking place over the next 9 months. Countries include the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, China, Italy, England, Belgium, France, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria, South Africa, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey AND MORE!
A complete listing of the Video Games Live World Tour can be found here: Â http://videogameslive.com/index.php?s=dates