Feb 14, 2023 | Entertainment
Tickets on sale February 17th
Grammy-nominated Boston bastion of Hard Rock, Godsmack returns to Mohegan Sun Arena at 8:00pm on Sunday, May 28th.
Tickets are $129.50, $89.50, $69.50, and $49.50, and go on sale Friday, February 17th at 10:00am via ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning Saturday, February 18th, subject to availability.
With more than 20 years of chart-topping success, the Boston Rock band has cemented themselves as 21st century Hard Rock titans. To date, they’ve accomplished a staggering 11 No. 1 singles at mainstream Rock radio including “Bulletproof,” “Unforgettable,” “When Legends Rise,” and “Under Your Scars,” all from the band’s most recent album. Additionally, they’ve enjoyed 20 Top 10 hits at the format – the most of any act since February 1999 – as well as four Grammy nominations and were named Billboard Music Award’s “Rock Artist of the Year” in 2001. Selling more than 20 million records worldwide, the band has released seven studio albums: Godsmack, Awake, Faceless, IV, The Oracle, 1000hp, and When Legends Rise.
The Massachusetts-bred quartet will take a victory lap with their eighth studio album Lighting Up the Sky, which will be released on February 24th, dropping one more classic album as they ascend into the celebratory position of their career. The powerful storytelling of Lighting Up the Sky covers boy-meets-girl obstacles in relationships, the polarized political climate and state of the world, betrayal, connection, rebounds, and more.
Godsmack is Sully Erna (vocals, guitar), Tony Rombola (guitar), Robbie Merrill (bass), and Shannon Larkin (drums).
About Mohegan Sun Arena
Mohegan Sun Arena finished 2021 with its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its capacity in the world according to Pollstar and VenuesNow, ranked among the top 10 venues in the U.S. regardless of size based on ticket sales, and was named “2021 Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been the “#1 Casino Venue in the World,” “#1 Social Media Venue in the World” and a seven – time national award – winner for “Arena of the Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
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Feb 14, 2023 | Entertainment, General News
Tickets on sale February 17th
Rock and Roll legends Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo return to Mohegan Sun Arena at 8:00pm on Saturday, April 15th.
Tickets are $79.50, $49.50, $39.50, and $29.50 and go on sale Friday, February 17th at 10:00am via ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning Saturday, February 18th, subject to availability.
Pat Benatar’s staggering vocals and take-no-prisoners attitude, along with Neil Giraldo’s trailblazing artistry as a guitarist, producer, and songwriter forged the undeniable chemistry and unique sound that created some of Rock’s most memorable hits including “We Belong,” “Invincible” “Love Is A Battlefield,” “Promises In The Dark,” “We Live For Love,” “Heartbreaker” and “Hell Is For Children.”
Together they have created two multi-platinum, five platinum, and three gold albums, as well as 19 Top 40 hits. They have sold over thirty million records worldwide and have won an unprecedented four consecutive Grammy awards. Their Rock and Roll love affair has endured for more than three and a half decades. Pat and Neil continue to tour, selling out concerts everywhere. Their chemistry will undoubtedly be thrilling music fans forever.
About Mohegan Sun Arena
Mohegan Sun Arena finished 2021 with its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its capacity in the world according to Pollstar and VenuesNow, ranked among the top 10 venues in the U.S. regardless of size based on ticket sales, and was named “2021 Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been the “#1 Casino Venue in the World,” “#1 Social Media Venue in the World” and a seven – time national award – winner for “Arena of the Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
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Feb 14, 2023 | Comedy, Entertainment
Don’t miss this star-studded lineup with appearances from Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Earthquake, and DC Young Fly
In partnership with Urban Vibe Entertainment, The Black Promoters Collective is happy to announce their first Comedy tour – Straight Jokes! No Chaser Comedy Tour. The event features standup comedy greats Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Earthquake, D.L. Hughley, and DC Young Fly, and makes a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena at 8:00pm on Friday, March 31st.
Tickets are $129.50, $99.50, $79.50, $69.50, and $59.50, and go on sale Friday, February 17th at 10:00am via ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning Saturday, February 18th, subject to availability.
Actor and comedian Mike Epps has been known to bring down the house with non-stop laughter for his unforgettable nights of comedy. Best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and its sequel Friday After Next, Epps has generated an extraordinary amount of buzz among his peers for being not only one of the funniest comic actors, but also for his burgeoning dramatic and acting talent. Epps is currently starring in the Netflix comedy series The Upshaws, and recently dropped a special on Netflix earlier this year called Mike Epps: Indiana Mike.
Cedric Antonio Kyles, better known as his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, is an American actor, comedian, and game show host, He hosted BET’s ComicView during the 1993-94 season and Def Comedy Jam in 1995. He is best known for co-starring with Steve Harvey on the famed sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as one of the The Original Kings of Comedy, and for starring as Eddie Walker in Barbershop. He hosted the 12th season of the daytime version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2013-14 and starred in the TV Land original series The Soul Man, which aired from 2012 until 2016. He has also done voice work for Ice Age, the Madagascar film series, Charlotte’s Web, and the Planes franchise. He has recently been a part of multiple TV series including The Neighborhood from 2018 to 2022 and Woke from 2020 to 2022.
Comedian, actor, and voice-artist Earthquake earned a solid fan base in standup comedy via programming platforms fueled by BET, HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime, and more. Born Nathaniel Stroman, “Quake” (as he’s known by fans) entered America’s households on the classic run of BET’s Comic View and HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. In addition, Earthquake wowed audiences with one of his most memorable performances for HBO’s coveted 30-minute comedy special series One Night Stand and has filmed a string of other comedy specials including About Got Damn Time, Walter Latham Presents, From the Outhouse to the Whitehouse, and more.
One of the most popular and universally recognized standup comedians on the road today has also made quite an impression in the television, film, and radio arenas. D.L. Hughley can currently be heard nationwide as the host of his afternoon radio show “The DL Hughley Show, nationally syndicated in more than 60 cities across the country. A New York Times best-selling author, D.L. Hughley has written various books, including How to Survive America, Surrender, White People, Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years, and How Not to Get Shot. In addition, D.L. Hughley continues to dominate the standup stage, producing specials for Netflix, Showtime, and HBO.
John Whitfield, better known as DC Young Fly, is an internet personality, comedian, actor, host, rapper, and singer-songwriter best known for his “roasting sessions” videos on Instagram and Vine. His videos earned him co-signs form celebrities like Kevin Hart, Michael Blackson, LeBron James, and Chris Tucker. DC has starred in films such as Almost Christmas, She Ball with Nick Cannon, and I Got the Hook Up 2 with Master P. In addition, he was a recurring cast member on the improv comedy show Wild’ N Out on MTV, VH1, and MTV2; and a main host of the revival of TRL on MTV from 2017 to 2018. As a musician, DC has also taken the reigns in the music industry, reaching the Top 10 on iTunes R&B with his 12th mixtape, TRAPSOUL, and opened for Chris Brown’s Party Tour in 2017. In 2021, he opened his improv comedy club, DC Comedy Exchange in Miami Beach, Florida, Most recently , DC filmed alongside Jacob Latimore and Rotimi in the 2023 remake of the 1990 film House Party.
About Mohegan Sun Arena
Mohegan Sun Arena finished 2021 with its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its capacity in the world according to Pollstar and VenuesNow, ranked among the top 10 venues in the U.S. regardless of size based on ticket sales, and was named “2021 Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been the “#1 Casino Venue in the World,” “#1 Social Media Venue in the World” and a seven – time national award – winner for “Arena of the Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
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Feb 14, 2023 | Entertainment
Vanilla Ice, Rob Base, Tone Loc, Young MC, and C&C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams to perform on May 13th
I Love the 90’s Tour featuring Vanilla Ice, Rob Base, Tone Loc, Young MC, and C&C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams will take the stage for a night of Hip-Hop and R&B at 7:00pm on Saturday, May 13th at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Tickets are $36.50 and $26.50 and go on sale Friday, February 17th at 10:00am via ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning Saturday, February 18th, subject to availability.
About Vanilla Ice
The iconic Robert Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice exploded on the Rap/Pop music scene in the early 90’s selling 10 million albums in four months and hitting number one on the Billboard charts with the number one single “Ice Ice Baby.” His worldwide album sales are more than 25 million and individual songs total more than 160 million and still selling.
Vanilla Ice won two MTV Awards, a People’s Choice Award, and was nominated for a Grammy. Vanilla Ice has starred or appeared in the movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, Cool As Ice, The Helix Loaded, The New Guy, The Bros, Big Money Hustlas, That’s My Boy, Ridiculous Six and Sandy Wexler with Adam Sandler.
About Rob Base
Rob Base hails from Harlem, New York. He first began with various groups such as Sure Shot Seven, Cosmic 3 MC’s, and Freedom Force. He and partner DJ EZ Rock (whom he has known since the fourth grade) would eventually separate from the groups to form Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock. Their first single “DJ Interview” came out on Mike and Dave’s label Star Maker’s Records in 1986. World to World Records would produce their second single “Make It Hot” in 1987. Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock’s music began to gain momentum and they would receive a distribution deal with Profile Records by 1988.
In 1988, Profile Records released Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock’s debut album It Takes Two. The title track became a massive single. The single and the album were certified Platinum by the RIAA on June 12, 1989, and December 28, 1989, respectively, and produced three top 10 hits. The single earned “Single of the Year” honors from both Spin Magazine and The Village Voice. Additional singles such as “Get on the Dance Floor” (which reached No. 1 on the Dance Club charts) and “Joy and Pain” continued to help push the album to multi-platinum status. In 1989, Rob Base dropped a solo release album The Incredible Base, which went Gold and included a number of hits such as “Turn It Out (Go Base)” and “Get Up and Have A Good Time.” In the last 30 years, Rob Base has continued to make his mark in the Hip-Hop and Freestyle worlds.
About Tone Loc
Tone Loc soared from obscurity into Pop stardom in 1989 when his hoarse voice and unmistakable delivery made the song “Wild Thing” (using a sample from Van Halen’s “Jamie’s Cryin’”) a massive hit winning Grammy’s and countless other awards. The song “Wild Thing” was co-written by Marvin Young, better known as Young MC as was the second single smash “Funky Cold Medina.” The album Loc-ed After Dark became the second Rap release ever to top the Pop charts and one of the most popular of all time.
Over the years, Tone has performed with many artists such as N’Sync, Britney Spears, Destiny’s Child, Boyz II Men, Naughty By Nature, Coolio, Young MC, Sugar Hill Gang, Digital Underground, Sir Mix-A-Lot and many others.
About Young MC
Rapper Marvin Young grew up middle class and earned a degree in economics from the University of Southern California, where he met Michael Ross and Matt Dike, co-founders of the fledgling Delicious Vinyl Rap label. Young made his debut as Young MC on the single “I Let ‘Em Know.” In 1989, Young collaborated with Tone-Loc on “Wild Thing,” the first Top Ten Pop hit for a Black rapper and the follow up smash “Funky Cold Medina.”
Young stepped out on his own later in the year with the Top Ten smash “Bust a Move,” a good-natured examination of romantic successes and failures spiced by his sense of humor and quick tongued rapping. The song won a Grammy for “Best Rap Performance” and its strong Pop appeal helped the associated album Stone Cold Rhymin’ go Platinum. The follow up “Principal’s Office” was a humorous, everyday high school tale resembling a Chuck Berry plot and also climbed into the Top 40.
About C&C Music Factory
Everybody Dance Now! With more than 8 million units sold, “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” was and still is today the song heard around the world. As the front man and co-founder of the international multi-platinum selling group C and C Music Factory, Freedom Williams has traveled and performed around the world extensively and has yet to meet a crowd that he couldn’t captivate. His performing abilities are just one of the things that keep the crowds mesmerized. Freedom was born in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Queens, New York, which is where it all began. Queens has been the home to some of the greatest rappers and entertainers to ever grace a stage.
Freedom is currently working on film projects, community activism and new music. His recent singles “Mindbounce” with newcomers, Speakerbox, peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Dance Chart with “Party Time” also making noise on the overseas charts. He is also featured on the hit single “Underlying Feeling” with the Dance Diva, Sylvia Tosun. Freedom is still captivating crowds around the world and is arguably the most recognizable voice in dance music history, but he is also a Hip-Hop force to be reckoned with.
About Mohegan Sun Arena
Mohegan Sun Arena finished 2021 with its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its capacity in the world according to Pollstar and VenuesNow, ranked among the top 10 venues in the U.S. regardless of size based on ticket sales, and was named “2021 Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been the “#1 Casino Venue in the World,” “#1 Social Media Venue in the World” and a seven – time national award – winner for “Arena of the Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.
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Feb 8, 2023 | Entertainment, Food & Beverage, General News, Shopping, Uncategorized
Spoil a loved one with dining & retail specials, plus a romantic evening at VISTA Lounge at Wombi Rock on Tuesday, February 14th
UNCASVILLE, CT (February 8, 2023) – Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Mohegan Sun is set to host the ultimate date night. Guests can access an assortment of extravagant dining options, lavish gifts in The Shops at Mohegan Sun and a stellar grand finale at VISTA Lounge at Wombi Rock.
Dinner at BALLO Italian Restaurant offers their best in surf & turf. Specials include bay scallops & pancetta, béchamel and grilled sourdough for $22, homemade lobster ravioli with bay scallops, shellfish brodo, San Marzano, tomato, chives and Parmigiana Reggiano for $44, and a 36 oz. Prime Porterhouse for two, served with shaved black truffle polenta, brussels sprouts, pancetta and honey for $160. For dessert, indulge in a chocolate and strawberry Crostata with mascarpone, dark chocolate ganache and peanut butter mousse for $18 or a strawberry prosecco cannoli with white chocolate for $11.
Valentine’s Day Dinner for two at Jasper White’s Summer Shack is $90 and the prix fixe menu features an appetizer to share, a choice of mixed greens salad or a cup of chowder, and a selection of delicious entrées like the Shack Shrimp Scampi, grilled marinated steak tips with garlic butter, mashed potatoes and broccoli, the special “Catch of the Day”, or the Shack Baked Scrod complete with a tomato fondue, garlic breadcrumbs, sautéed broccoli and jasmine rice. Dessert to share is a delectable brownie sundae or vanilla crème brûleé. Gratuity and tax are not included.
A luxurious dinner at Michael Jordan’s Steak House starts with stuffed oysters in a fennel hollandaise, paired with a sausage hash and parmesan for $20. Next course is a $140 chateaubriand for two – a 24 oz. filet mignon, truffled potatoes and raclette fondue. And dessert? Passion. Passion. Passion: passion fruit mousse, passion fruit ganache, fermented passion fruit and a cocoa crumble for $20. Toast to the night with NV Vollereaux Brut Champagne for $19 per glass.
Get ready to fall in love with MJ23 Sports Bar & Grill’s Surf & Turf. Guests can treat themselves to a 7 oz. filet mignon, 6 oz. lobster tail, truffled mashed potatoes and asparagus with a red wine glaze for $65. Turn up the heat with a Baked Alaska made with chocolate cake and milk chocolate ice cream for $16. Cheers to a loved one with NV Vollereaux Brut Champagne for $19 per glass.
Sushi Koya is serving up the Love Boat for Two. For $60, sushi connoisseurs can enjoy edamame, the Salmon Lover or Tuna Lover, a traditional Maki Roll, the coveted Dinosaur Egg and four pieces of Sashimi (Chef’s Choice). Add a carafe of House Sake for $6.
Those looking for an elevated seafood experience can look no further than TAO Asian Bistro & Lounge. The TAO (XO) Stuffed Lobster features a broiled stuffed lobster and spicy soy E-FU noodles for $69.
Valentine’s Day at Mohegan Sun wouldn’t be complete without Todd English’s Tuscany. Specials include a Cider House Salad made with gala apples, cheddar cheese, radishes, bacon, lardons, baby arugula and a broken cider vinaigrette for $14; sweetheart ravioli with truffle brown butter, saffron cream, Maine lobster, garlic chips and fried basil for $36; a surf & turf complete with a 6 oz. filet of beef, king crab, bearnaise butter, a crispy potato nest and haricot verts for $65; and a white chocolate raspberry mousse heart paired with a graham cake and micro flowers for $10. Todd English’s Tuscany will also offer special Valentine’s Day treats during brunch on Saturday, February 18th and Sunday, February 19th.
Looking to enjoy a sweet treat with your sweetheart? Pick up buy one, get one free milkshakes at Johnny Rockets or snag a scoop (or two) at Ben & Jerry’s. Limited edition heart shaped donuts are available at The Crafty Stir Café for $1.50. Chocolux is offering a Valentine’s Day staple, chocolate covered strawberries, on February 10th, 11th, 12th and 14th. Single strawberries are available for $6 each, and a pack of four is available for $20.
After dinner, pick up a gift for your favorite person in The Shops at Mohegan Sun!
Stop by Le Creuset now through Tuesday, February 14th and receive a free set of two heart mugs with saucers with a $250 purchase! Gift cards and taxes do not count towards the minimum price requirement. Offer available while supplies last.
Those looking for a little extra sparkle can stop by Swarovski and get a free accessory pouch with a purchase of $200 or more. Accessory pouch is available while supplies last, visit Swarovski for complete details.
End the evening under the stars at VISTA Lounge at Wombi Rock with the Champagne & Strawberry Special. Guests can enjoy a bottle of champagne paired with 12 sweet chocolate dipped strawberries while dancing the night away. Live DJ starts at 9:00pm. Reserve your spot now by calling 860.862.4009.
For complete details on Valentine’s Day specials, visit the Mohegan Sun website.
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