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Live in the Arena on Tuesday, July 6th.  Tickets go on sale March 22nd

Sting will spend much of the summer on a world tour, performing his most-renowned songs alongside the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.  The very special concert event will be taking place at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, July 6th at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $115.00 and $85.00 and go on sale Monday, March 22nd at 10:00am through Ticketmaster.  Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Tuesday, March 23rd, subject to availability.

Last year, Sting unveiled If On a Winter’s Night…, which peaked at #6 on The Billboard 200 and has since been certified gold.   The 45-piece Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra will reinvent a variety of hits by Sting and The Police, including “Roxanne,” “Next to You,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Every Breath You Take” and “Desert Rose,” among others.  Sting will also be joined by a quartet consisting of guitarist Dominic Miller, multi-percussionist David Cossin, vocalist Jo Lawry and bassist Ira Coleman.

Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com.  For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.

Live in the Arena on Thursday, June 24th.  Tickets go on sale March 19th

Two acts that were regulars on the charts in the early 80s, REO Speedwagon & Pat Benatar, are teaming up for a co-headlining tour which kicks off Thursday, June 24th at 7:30pm in Mohegan Sun Arena with special guest Keaton Simons. 

Tickets are $35.00 and go on sale Friday, March 19th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster.  Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, March 20th, subject to availability.

REO Speedwagon continues to support 2007’s Find Your Own Way Home, which marked the band’s first collection of new material in more than a decade. The 10-track set, billed as a return to the power-ballad/melodic-Rock-anthem glory days, has spawned the Adult-Contemporary hits “I Needed To Fall” and the title track.

Go, Pat Benatar’s most recent release and 12th studio effort, surfaced in 2003. The album peaked at #187 on The Billboard 200.  Last summer, Benatar celebrated the 30th anniversary of her 1979 debut album, In the Heat of the Night. The set received platinum certification in the U.S. and its third single, “Heartbreaker,” became Benatar’s first radio hit, climbing to #23 on The Billboard Hot 100.

Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com.  For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.

Beginning March 15th local acts compete for once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for Bon Jovi in Mohegan Sun Arena

When Bon Jovi makes their highly-anticipated return to Mohegan Sun Arena to perform two concerts on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th, they will share the stage with two lucky, up-and-coming local bands.  To facilitate the competition, Bon Jovi has partnered with local radio station 96.5 TIC FM to present the Friday, March 26th opening act contest. For the March 27th opening act contest, Clear Channel Radio’s The River 105.9 FM, Country 92.5 FM and KISS 95.7 FM have been selected as presenting stations. All stations will promote the contests on-air, online and through station newsletters.

The “Opening Act Contest,” which launched Monday, March 15th, is open to all bands in the Connecticut region.  Friday night’s opening act contest can be entered at www.965tic.radio.com. Entries for Saturday night will be accepted at  www.theriver1059.com, www.kiss957.com and www.country925.com. All sites will feature homepage banners linked to a dedicated webpage where bands will submit a video of themselves playing an original song.  Each winning band will perform a 30-minute opening set at Mohegan Sun Arena as well as receive five (5) pairs of tickets to see the show.  The deadline for receiving submissions is Monday, March 22nd.
   
Tickets are $195.00 and $125.00 and are on sale now at the Mohegan Sun Box Office and through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.

The band’s 11th studio album, The Circle, was released in November 2009 and debuted at #1 in numerous countries, including the U.S., Canada and Japan.  Globally, the legendary band has sold more than 120 million albums, and performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans.  With “The Circle Tour,” Bon Jovi will spend much of the next two years on the road, performing 135 shows in 30 countries.

Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by  Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com.  More information on the search for Bon Jovi’s “Opening Act Contest” can be found at www.965tic.radio.com for the March 26th show, or www.theriver1059.com, www.kiss957.com or www.country925.com for the March 27th show. For other information, please contact Eve Samuels & Erik Stein from Scoop Marketing at 213.639.6160 or esamuels@solters.com