Great Ideas! The Official Blog of Singer-Songwriter Christian Beach

A short, sweet review of Christian Beach’s self-titled CD appears in the August 2010 issue of Origivation Magazine. You can also check it out online here. And if the review piques your interest, “Christian Beach” is available for purchase at CDBaby.com, iTunes and Amazon.com.

Christian Beach on New York Rocks (May 2010 Studio Show) Here is video of Christian Beach, accompanied by Gorgo on mandolin and backing vocals, performing “Don’t Want to Be a Lonely Man” and “Taking It Real Slow” on New York Rocks (May 2010 Studio Show). To watch the full episode of the show, which includes [...]

Christian Beach will be among the acts on the bill for a Wishlist Foundation benefit show at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, on April 10. Christian will be appearing with headliners Heat as well as The WTF Band, James Fagan, Lisa Bouchelle and a reunited Sinopoli. Tickets are just $15 and proceeds benefit [...]

A “lost” track by Christian Beach appears on “This Album Kills Cancer,” a 3-disc benefit album that has just been released by Lazlo at BlowUpRadio.com to help defray the medical costs of Future Kings of Nowhere’s Shayne Miel, who is currently fighting Stage IV lymphoma. “Baby’s Back in Town,” a previously unreleased track from 2005, [...]

The last weekend of March will be a busy one for Christian Beach. On Friday, March 26th, Christian will be appearing at Aleathea’s (7 Ocean St.) in Cape May, NJ, as part of the Singer-Songwriter Cape May Showcase. Doors open at 8 p.m. The next night, Saturday, March 27th, Christian will be playing at Buddies [...]

Christian Beach will be performing at Carley’s Ristorante & Piano Bar (204 Locust Street) in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, February 19, 2010, at 10:15 p.m. The show is part of the 14th Annual Millennium Music Conference & Showcase taking place Feb. 18-21 at 30 venues throughout the Harrisburg area. Friday, February 19, 2010 – 10:15 [...]

Jersey Beat’s Phil Rainone reviews the upcoming 2-CD tribute to Queen from Main Man Records, “Horse Feathers & Animal Crackers,” in his latest Pop Vulture column for the music fanzine. Christian Beach’s dirge-style cover of Queen’s “All Dead, All Dead” is acknowledged in the review… Several near-misses like little-known Queen cuts like “The Loser in [...]

It’s a little late, but Happy New Year! Just wanted to pop in and let you all know that I have a show coming up at the Twisted Tree Cafe (609 Cookman Ave.) in Asbury Park, NJ, on Friday, January 29, 2010, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. I will be performing with the very talented [...]

Christian Beach’s dirge-style cover of Queen’s “All Dead, All Dead” (News of the World) will appear on the upcoming Main Man Records CD release, “Horse Feathers & Animal Crackers – A Tribute to Queen.” The 2-disc compilation is now available for pre-order at MainManRecords.com. “Horse Feathers & Animal Crackers” is scheduled to be released January [...]

To update an earlier post here on Great Ideas, Christian Beach’s self-titled CD came in at No. 23 on the Top 60 Albums of 2009 list compiled by the Lazlo’s Den Internet radio program at BlowUpRadio.com. Lazlo played “Poet of the Great Plains” on the Dec. 29, 2009, edition of his program to represent the [...]