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Veteran rockers come to Uncasville Wednesday, June 16th

Two of the United Kingdom’s greatest musical exports, Yes & Peter Frampton, are returning to southeastern Connecticut for a performance at Mohegan Sun Arena on Wednesday, June 16th at 7:30pm.

Tickets for the performance are $35.00 and go on sale Friday, April 9th 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, April 10th, subject to availability.  

A dominant force in Rock music for more than four decades, Yes has created some of Rock’s most enduring and compelling hits and has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. The band’s celebrated discography includes hits such as “Owner of a Lonely Heart,” “I’ve Seen All Good People” and “Roundabout.” 

Peter Frampton’s most recent studio album earned the veteran rocker a Grammy for “Best Pop Instrumental Album.”  Fingerprints, which was released in 2006, marked Frampton’s first all-instrumental album and featured a handful of special guests, including Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, former Stones bassist Bill Wyman and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Matt Cameron.  Frampton is currently putting the finishing touches on a new batch of material entitled Thank You Mr Churchill, which is set to hit store shelves on April 27th. 

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.

“United We Rock” tour is live in the Arena on June 18th

Classic Rock acts Styx & Foreigner with special guest Kansas have plans to hit the road together this summer for a tour they’ve dubbed “United We Rock.”  The tour will hit Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, June 18th at 7:00pm.

All tickets are $40.00 and go on sale Friday, March 26th at 10:00am 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.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, March 27th, subject to availability.

Styx’s most recent release is 2006’s One With Everything, a live CD/DVD set showcasing the band’s hit songs with accompaniment from the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland.

Along with classic hits, Foreigner will perform material from last year’s Can’t Slow Down, the band’s first studio set with lead singer Kelly Hansen, who joined the group in 2005.

Kansas also released a live album, There’s Know Place Like Home, which hit shelves last October.

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.

Beloved Classic Rockers perform on September 7th

Journey, one of the best-selling Rock bands of all time, is hitting the road again in 2009 and will be performing live at Mohegan Sun Arena on Monday, September 7th at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $85.00 and $65.00 and go on sale Friday, June 5th at 10:00am 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.  Tickets may also be purchased at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, June 6th subject to availability.

In 2008, Journey introduced a new singer to the world, Arnel Pineda, with the release of their 14th studio album Revelation and an extraordinarily successful world tour. It was the latest chapter in a Rock and Roll saga that started more than thirty-five years ago and has produced some of the best-known Rock songs of the 70s and 80s.  Revelation, a three-disc CD and DVD package, was certified platinum within several months of its release.  Disc one comprises eleven re-recorded classics, disc two features eleven new songs, and disc three is a concert DVD.

For more information on Journey 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.