Press Release – Queen + Adam Lambert to play Helsinki in June 2016

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FINLAND, Helsinki Kaisaniemi Park – 3 June 2016
On sale December 7th

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Queen + Adam Lambert to play in Helsinki in June 2016
Legendary band returns to Finland after 40 years!

Finnish Music fans have an opportunity to witness a unique concert when Queen – one of the greatest rock bands of all time – arrives in Finland after a 40 year gap. Queen in its present line up featuring Adam Lambert are playing in Helsinki Kaisaniemi Park on Friday 3 June. At the same time the concert is the opening of new and modern City Festival Park Live and the line up of the Festival will expand during the next couple of months.

Tickets for the Queen + Adam Lambert concert start at 79 Euros and are on sale at Tiketti and Lippupiste and also Fromond the address: www.rle.fi on Monday 7 December. Ticket sales are limited to 6 tickets per customer. Also on sale VIP packages from 119 to 249 Euros.

Park Live festival will be a premium event with champagne bars and luxurious decor – it truly will be a premium event with unique music from the very top world artists.  The event has no age restrictions but alcohol will be served on the premises.

Queen has played in Finland only once before – at the House of Culture November 1974. Guitar player Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are still present from that original line up. Since 2009 Adam Lambert has stepped into the role of lead vocalist after the passing of Freddie Mercury in 1991. Since 2009 Queen and Adam Lambert have performed at live concerts and television spectacles. Last year the band did a highly acclaimed and sold out 24 day tour of America. This year Queen and Adam Lambert had performed at 26 sold out concerts all over Europe and rest of the world. Based on praising reviews Adam Lambert has proved a perfect fit to assume this demanding role of band front man.

Queen was formed 1971 and since those days sold millions of records. The band has won all the greatest rock awards and is considered one of the all time classic artists. From all Queen’s greatest songs We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions have entered the Grammy Hall Of Fame.

Queen has made music history being the first artist whose record has been sold in excess of six million copies in the UK. This Greatest Hits album achieved another record by remaining in the UK album charts for 1,422 weeks. In Finland Greatest Hits still remains the most sold foreign album with sales nearing 150,000 copies.

Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, Killer Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race are great examples of Queen songs which Finnish audiences can enjoy at Kaisaniemi Park next summer.

Adam Lambert’s debut album For Your Entertainment earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and a worldwide smash hit with ‘Whataya Want From Me’. His second album, Trespassing, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. In 2013, Adam appeared as a guest star on the hit TV series, GLEE and as as a featured vocalist on Avicii’s album ’True’. Adam released his highly anticipated third album, ‘The Original High’ this summer, it entered the worldwide chart at number 3, and took his overall worldwide sales to over 2.5 million. The Single ‘Ghost Town’ has had over 100 million streams worldwide including 37 million views  of the video. He has just announced his brand new single “Another Lonely Night”.

Queen + Adam Lambert at Park Live festival on 3rd of June 2016.

Tickets starting at 79 € and will be sold by Tiketti and Lippupiste and also from site address www.rle.fi 7th December. Amount of tickets restricted to six tickets per person.

Also available are various VIP package tickets priced 119-249 Euros.

For further details regarding VIP packages please check www.rle.fi and Tiketti and Lippupiste.

Promoter RL CONCERTS . www.rle.fi