{"id":256112,"date":"2026-06-05T04:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256112\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:29:42","slug":"ready-freddie-almost-queen-kicks-off-summer-concert-series-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256112\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Freddie: Almost Queen kicks off summer concert series tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img width=\"810\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Almost-Queen-The-Game-Album-Promo-810x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-featured size-single-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Almost Queen recreates the cover of Queen&#8217;s 1980 album The Game. Almost Queen opens the Ruby Summer Concert Series tonight at the Ruby Amphitheater. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can anybody find me \u2026 something to do in Morgantown tonight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you find yourself asking that question, walk, drive, ride your bicycle to the Ruby Amphitheater for opening night of the Ruby Summer Concert Series presented by the city of Morgantown and the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This evening\u2019s lineup begins at 7 p.m. with Elton John tribute Philadelphia Freedom followed by Almost Queen, an homage to the Freddie Mercury-fronted four piece that\u2019s, ahem, guaranteed to blow your mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entering its fifth summer, the nationally recognized summer concert series drew more than 50,000 people downtown last summer for free Friday night tunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0This year\u2019s lineup includes featured artists Leftover Salmon (June 12); Everclear (June 19); Tonic (June 26); Switchfoot (July 17); The War and Treaty (July 24); The Fabulous Thunderbirds (July 31); Hanson (Aug. 14); Ashley Cooke (Aug. 21); 38 Special (Aug. 28) and respected tribute acts Dark Side of the Moonshine (Pink Floyd \u2013 July 10) and Who\u2019s Bad (Michael Jackson \u2013 Aug. 7).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A variety of vendors will be on site selling food and drinks during each event. Coolers can be carried into the park, but glass bottles are not permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concerts are rain or shine events, and all seating is first come, first served. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost Queen recreates the cover of Queen&#8217;s 1980 album The Game. Almost Queen opens the Ruby Summer Concert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[99760,99761,99762,99763,9,24,63,99764,122,124,123,99765,99766],"class_list":["post-256112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-almost-queen","tag-city-of-morgantown","tag-city-of-morgantown-arts-cultural-development-department","tag-hazel-ruby-mcquain-charitable-trust","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-philadelphia-freedom","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-ruby-amphitheater","tag-ruby-summer-concert-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}