Live Entertainment, Riverboat Style

We have designed an ever changing array of nightly variety entertainment for the Columbia Queen’s two showrooms. While exploring some of the Pacific Northwest’s most scenic and historic attractions by day, come nightfall guests enjoy a diverse range of onboard entertainment- ranging from nostalgic 50’s favorites to hit Broadway musical numbers. Each evening brings another theme, often performed by local entertainers who ‘step-on’ the vessel for one night only.

The elegant Victorian style Astoria Room, with its Baby Grand piano and stage, transforms from an elegant dining room into a riverboat showroom where performers play many roles. Crooners and balladeers reminiscent of the days of Big Bands create a lively atmosphere as guest entertainers sparkle in elegant evening attire and croon such tunes as “Juke Box Saturday Night,” “Flat-Foot Floozy” and “Moonlight Serenade.”

The diversity of the entertainment takes another turn on the final evening of the cruise, when the CQ singers return to pay lyrical homage to the “Music of America,” with standards from folk to pop, Broadway to Country, and even a bit of Gospel. The evening is completed by a fantastic grand finale when the onboard entertainers and CQ staff and crew join in singing the choruses of Lee Greenwood’s popular “God Bless the USA.”

As the curtain is lowered on the performances in the CQ’s Astoria Room, the lights go up in the Explorer Lounge, where guests segue into a Cabaret environment via an impromptu Song fest with a 1940’s “Wild West” or ’50’s Rock’N’Roll theme.