Apr 9, 2010 | Sports
Peter Manfredo Jr. & Matt Remillard co-headline Hometown Heroes fight card
On Saturday, May 22nd, TKO Boxing Promotions returns to Mohegan Sun with its nationally-acclaimed Hometown Heroes To World Champions series, headlined by the return of Peter “The Pride Of Providence” Manfredo Jr. battling Chicago’s Angel “El Toro” Hernandez for the vacant IBO Middleweight Title. The co-main event will feature Manchester, CT’s own Matt “The Sharp Shooter” Remillard defending his NABF Featherweight Title. The action begins at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $125.00, $60.00 and $30.00 and go on sale Saturday, April 10th 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 beginning on Sunday, April 11th, subject to availability.
Manfredo Jr. made his return to Mohegan Sun on January 29th with an outstanding shutout ten-round decision over Minnesota veteran Matt Vanda, acquiring the NABF Middleweight Title in the process. In front of a large and passionate crowd, Manfredo Jr. dominated Vanda from the opening bell. With a record of 34-6-0 (18 KOs), Manfredo is currently ranked #11 in the world by the World Boxing Council.
Hernandez, a native of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 30-7-0 (17 KOs), has battled numerous world champions and contenders over his fourteen-year career including Winky Wright, Frankie Randall, Kassim Ouma, Wilfredo Rivera and J.C. Candelo. Known for his fan friendly all-action style of fighting, Hernandez won both of his starts in 2009, a unanimous decision over highly regarded prospect James “Buddy” McGirt Jr. on January 16th and a sixth round stoppage over Antwun Echols on August 21st.
The 23-year-old Remillard is one of the most highly-regarded prospects in boxing. After winning all four of his bouts in 2009, he raised his undefeated record to 21-0-0 (12 KOs) on January 29th at Mohegan Sun with a third round stoppage of Rafael Lora where he defended his NABF Featherweight Title and earned him a top 10 world rating.
Further details on Remillard’s bout and an action-packed undercard will be announced shortly.
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.
Apr 7, 2010 | Entertainment
Performance is in the Arena on August 11th. Tickets go on sale April 10th
Rihanna, in the midst of her fourth critically-acclaimed album release Rated R, a smash #1 single with “Rude Boy” and a highly-anticipated upcoming international tour, has confirmed dates for her 2010 North American tour, Last Girl On Earth. The multi-platinum and Grammy award-winning superstar, who recently broke a Billboard record with her current #1 single “Rude Boy,” becoming the only female artist of the past decade to have six #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, will be joined by rising star Ke$ha. This very special performance will be taking place in Mohegan Sun Arena on Wednesday, August 11th at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $110.00 and $80.00 and go on sale Saturday, April 10th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Sunday, April 11th, subject to availability.
Released in November 2009, Rihanna’s fourth studio album Rated R debuted atop the Billboard R&B Albums chart at #1 and was the biggest first-week Soundscan tally of Rihanna’s career. The eagerly anticipated album arrived to a chorus of acclaim from critics and fans alike. Rolling Stone raved that it is “one of the best Pop records of the year.” The Chicago Sun Times called it “by far the best, most layered and most heartfelt effort of the 21-year-old artist’s career.” In its year-end recap, Entertainment Weekly named Rated R the “Pop Album of the Year.”
Ke$ha’s breakthrough came in early 2009 after an uncredited appearance on Flo Rida’s #1 single “Right Round.” Her debut single, “Tik Tok,” was released in August 2009 to much commercial success. It reached #1 in eleven countries and set the weekly records for the most digital downloads of a female artist and of the total Top 40 Mainstream airplay records in the U.S. The song also became the longest running #1 debut single by a female artist since 1977. Her debut album, Animal, was released in early 2010 and debuted at #1 in the U.S.
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.
Apr 6, 2010 | Entertainment
R&B singers will perform live in Mohegan Sun Arena
Maxwell & Jill Scott, two of R&B’s biggest names, are teaming up for a joint outing this spring which will be stopping at Mohegan Sun Arena on Monday, June 21st. The show begins at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $77.00 and $57.00 and go on sale Saturday, April 10th 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 Sunday, April 11th, subject to availability.
Maxwell, who last fall mounted a headlining North American run, continues to support his chart-topping 2009 release, BLACKsummers’night. The set is billed as the first in a trilogy, the second installment of which–BlackSUMMERS’night–is due out this year. Blacksummers’NIGHT, the final entry in the series, is expected to follow in 2011.
Jill Scott’s spring road-trip with Maxwell will pave the way for this summer’s The Light of the Sun, her first new studio album since 2007’s The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3.
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.
Apr 6, 2010 | Entertainment
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.
Apr 6, 2010 | Entertainment
Backstreet Boys return to the Arena on June 15th. Tickets go on sale Friday
The Backstreet Boys are on the road this spring in support of the group’s most recent Top 10 album This Is Us. The Boys will be stopping at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, June 15th at 8:00pm.
Tickets are $40.00 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.
This Is Us, the boy band’s seventh studio set and follow-up to 2007’s Unbreakable, surfaced in October on Jive Records and is the group’s second album since the departure of original member Kevin Richardson. The 11-track effort, which peaked at #9 on The Billboard 200, features new material that Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and A.J. McLean collaborated on alongside songwriters and producers like T-Pain, RedOne and Claude Kelly.
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.
