Game of Thrones coming to a town near you
If you can’t get to Westeros, don’t fret: It’s coming to a town near you next year. Or, at least the music is.
Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are among the cities to be visited by Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi on a 28-city tour across North America. A full orchestra and choir will perform while some favourite scenes from the show will be broadcast on LED screens for fans.
“I wanted something that takes you beyond just watching an orchestra play. I wanted to have an immersive experience,” Djawadi said from Los Angeles before a fan event this week. He hopes to create an event he called “epic” and “involved.”
Djawadi, who also wrote the Grammy-nominated score for Iron Man, has always championed little-known instruments and vowed to do the same on the Game of Thrones tour, highlighting things like the glass harmonica, duduk and dulcimer.
“I think it will be very exciting and very interesting for the audience to not only hear the music again and have the music experience but also to actually see actual players perform with these instruments that they may not even know what they look like,” he said.
Djawadi, not wanting to reveal too many features of the Live Nationproduced tour, said the stage’s design will employ state-of-the-art technology, and there will be “things happening onstage that will enhance the musical experience.”
The tour promises to introduce live classical music to fans who might not normally want to see an orchestra, something that tickles Djawadi. “It’ll be a great thing for people to experience this in a live setting with their favourite show attached to it.”
Djawadi said he hopes to conduct most nights and perform on some instruments.
The “Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience” kicks off Feb. 15 in Kansas City and hits Montreal’s Bell Centre on March 3, Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on March 4 and Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on April 1. Tickets go on sale Aug. 13 at the Live Nation site.