The Nielsen Trust at the Q Showroom

Saturday, December 4th 8pm
Dubuque’s entertainment hot spot sure didn’t miss the opportunity to bring in this rocking family! Rick & Daxx Nielsen, members of Cheap Trick, and their family are getting together for an evening of songs and stories from the uniquely colorful world of growing up Nielsen.
The back story: Miles and Daxx started off playing together in Harmony Riley, a Midwest quintet which released albums in 1999 and 2002. Then Daxx went off to drum for surf legend Dick Dale, Brandi Carlile and others. He got the "you are needed" call from Cheap Trick in 2010. Big brother Miles played bass for Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons and then launched his solo career with the Rusted Hearts. His fourth album, Ohbahoy, has just been released, and that’s not counting the EP, Weep & Willow, he and his wife Kelly Steward issued in 2016. She has a new album, Tales and Tributes of the Deserving and Not So, as well. Rick, well, he's been playing a hundred-plus Cheap Trick shows a year all over the world, while writing and recording non-stop.
With Miles out front as singer and storyteller, they’re working up lesser-known songs from Rick's enormous Cheap Trick catalogue, adding some Miles and Kelly originals, choice covers and, who knows?, maybe writing some new tunes together. Asked for some titles, Miles says they’re thinking about such Trick tunes as “Can’t Hold On,” “Didn’t Know I Had It,” “Fan Club” and “On Top of the World.”
The goal, Miles says, is to play a dozen shows a year, accentuate the rock side (“dynamic and delicate”) more than he normally does and give the family legend a chance to play in a band that he doesn’t have to lead. For the fans, the shows offer an intimate connection, an invitation to the Nielsen world, which may be rock star glamorous from the outside, but inside the checkerboard, there’s a family just like yours and mine.

Tickets starting at $15 for The Nielsen Trust are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased online at QCasinoAndHotel.com or at Guest Services inside Q Casino. Show will be standing room only. Must be 21 to attend.