Apr 8, 2019 | Entertainment
Live at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 12th with special guest Emily King
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 8, 2019) – Grammy, Tony and Emmy award-nominated singer, songwriter, actress, and author Sara Bareilles today announced her Amidst The Chaos Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 30-city tour will stop at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 12th at 8:00pm with special guest Emily King.
Tickets are $79.00, $59.00 and $39.00 and go on sale Friday, April 12th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to Ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning on Saturday, April 13th at 10:00am, subject to availability.
The tour brings Bareilles on the road in support of her fifth full-length album Amidst The Chaos which was just released last Friday to rave reviews – with Variety stating it “establishes that there’s no one in Contemporary Pop better at flexing mezzo-soprano sensitivity and social empathy like a muscle. It’s the perfect album for anyone who could use a little fierce snowflake pride.” This marks her first album of original material since 2013.
ABOUT SARA BAREILLES
Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her widely successful hit “Love Song,” which reached #1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album Little Voice. Since then, Sara has gone on to receive seven Grammy nominations throughout her career, which include “Song of the Year” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance” for “Love Song” and one “Album of the Year” for her highly acclaimed third studio album, The Blessed Unrest. Her book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster and is a New York Times best seller. Making her Broadway debut, Sara composed the music and lyrics for Waitress, for which she received her first Tony Award nomination for “Best Score” and a 2017 Grammy Award nomination for “Best Musical Theater Album.” She also made her Broadway acting debut in 2017 by stepping into the lead role in Waitress.
2018 was a big year for Sara, she co-hosted the Tony Awards, was nominated for an Emmy and Grammy for her role in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, and was awarded with the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s “Hal David Starlight Award.” Sara also teamed up with Apple as an executive producer for Little Voice a 10 episode series, which she will create the original music for.
Mohegan Sun Arena is now ranked consistently among the top venues in the world according to Billboard Magazine, Pollstar and Venues Now. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently ranked among the top three “Arenas in the World for its Size” and top 15 in the “World for All Size Venues.” The award-winning venue is 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.
Apr 5, 2019 | Community Relations, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, General News, Special Events
Popular festival returns June 1st & 2nd, rain or shine
Uncasville, CT (April 5, 2019) – Mohegan Sun is gearing up once again to celebrate the best in barbecue with lots of food, cold beer, hand-crafted cocktails, live music and so much more at the 7th Annual Sun BBQ Fest. It all goes down in the Winter Parking Lot on Saturday, June 1st and Sunday, June 2nd – guests can enjoy full plate vending from nationally-acclaimed BBQ teams, sample small bites in the People’s Choice Competition or participate in the annual Wing and Rib Competition. Sun BBQ Fest also features a barbecue competition with over 50 teams, sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society. Over two days, over $25,000 will be given in prize money.
Tickets are $5.00 per day or $8.00 for the whole weekend and on sale now at Mohegan Sun Box Office. Kids ages six and under receive free admission. Admission tickets and $1.00 tickets for food and beverages will be also be available for purchase at the festival entrance.
Ribs & Wings Galore
Guests can feast throughout the day by participating in the People’s Choice Contest. Twenty Kansas City BBQ Society teams will offer $2.00 BBQ samples all weekend long, and guests can vote for the best in show. Voting will be open from Saturday at 11:00am until Sunday at 3:00pm and the winners will be announced on Sunday at 4:00pm.
In addition to the People’s Choice competition, guests can indulge at the Rib and Wing Challenges. All Kansas City BBQ Society competitors will be given racks of ribs and loads of chicken wings to prepare in any flavor they wish. For $5.00, guests can taste any five ribs or wings and help determine who reigns supreme. Winners will be announced on Saturday evening prior to the fireworks show presented by Liberty Bank, and a portion of the proceeds from both competitions benefit Operation BBQ Relief, an organization dedicated to providing meals to disaster-stricken communities across the U.S. The Rib Challenge Tent is open to guests on Saturday from Noon – 2:30pm, and the Wing Challenge Tent is open on Saturday from 6:00pm – 8:30pm.
Sun BBQ Fest wouldn’t be complete without entertainment!
Celebrity chef and BBQ expert Myron Mixon helps get the Winter Lot smoking with two chef demos at 1:00pm and 3:00pm. Myron has won more barbecue competitions than anyone else in the world, including 200 grand championships, over 1,800 trophies, 30 state championships and more. On TV, Myron is the Executive Producer and host of BBQ Rules and star of two other hit television shows BBQ Pitmasters and BBQ Pitwars on Discovery’s Destination America.
End Saturday with a bang! An electrifying firework display presented by Liberty Bank starts at 9:15pm. All day Sunday, live music will be provided on the Main Stage to keep the party rolling.
To learn more about Sun BBQ Fest, please visit the event website.
Note: Mohegan Sun requires persons under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian during Sun BBQ Fest. Unescorted minors will have their parent/legal guardian contacted to pick them up immediately.
ABOUT LIBERTY BANK:
Established in 1825, Liberty Bank is Connecticut’s oldest bank, with more than $5.1 billion in assets and 55 banking offices throughout the central, eastern, western and shoreline areas of the state. As a full-service financial institution, Liberty offers consumer and commercial banking, home mortgages, insurance, and investment services. Named in 2019 as one of the World’s Best Banks, ranking 4th in the United States by Forbes and a ‘Top Workplace’ by the Hartford Courant for seven consecutive years, Liberty maintains a longstanding commitment to superior personal service and unparalleled community involvement. For more information about Liberty Bank, visit www.liberty-bank.com.
ABOUT MOHEGAN SUN:
Owned by Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, Mohegan Sun is one of the largest, most spectacular entertainment, gaming, dining and shopping destinations in the United States. Situated on 185 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is home to two unique casinos, 1,600 deluxe hotel rooms, two world-class spas, a golf course, over 90 shops, restaurants and bars as well as three award-winning entertainment venues including a 10,000-seat Arena. Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country. More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or visiting mohegansun.com. Connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @mohegansun, view us on YouTube and find us on Snapchat at username MoheganSun.
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Apr 4, 2019 | Entertainment
Mohegan Sun Arena performance rescheduled to Saturday, June 20, 2020 with special guest Marilyn Manson
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 4, 2019) – Ozzy Osbourne will postpone all his 2019 tour dates, inclusive of shows in North America and Europe, as he recovers from an injury sustained while dealing with his recent bout of pneumonia. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-winning singer and songwriter and 2019 Grammy “Special Merit Award” recipient fell at his Los Angeles home aggravating years-old injuries (from his 2003 ATV accident) that required surgery last month. Osbourne will remain under doctor’s care in Los Angeles as he recovers. Mohegan Sun Arena’s reschedule date will be Saturday, June 20, 2020. Special guest Marilyn Manson is joining Ozzy for the North American shows.
Says Ozzy: “I can’t believe I have to reschedule more tour dates. Words cannot express how frustrated, angry and depressed I am not to be able to tour right now. I’m grateful for the love and support I’m getting from my family, my band, friends and fans, it’s really what’s keeping me going. Just know that I am getting better every day…I will fully recover…I will finish my tour…I will be back!”
The shows will be rescheduled beginning in February 2020 and concert-goers are being asked to hold onto their original tickets, as they will be honored for the rescheduled dates.
Mohegan Sun Arena is now ranked consistently among the top venues in the world according to Billboard Magazine, Pollstar and Venues Today. It has won “Casino of The Year” at the Country Music Awards in 2008 & 2010 and in 2013, was voted “Arena Of The Year” at the G2E Global Gaming Conference in Las Vegas. Mohegan Sun Arena was also ranked among the top 10 arena venues in the nation for 2014, regardless of size. In 2015, Mohegan Sun took home the IEBA award for “Casino of the Year.” Mohegan Sun also won “Casino of the Year” in 2 categories at the 2013 & 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards. 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, ext. 27163.
Apr 2, 2019 | Entertainment
Performing at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, July 21st
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 2, 2019) – Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie will co-headline a coast-to-coast tour this summer. The 13-city tour will make a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, July 21st at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $75.00, $55.00 and $35.00 and go on sale Saturday, April 6th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to Ticketmaster.com or call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning on Sunday, April 7th at 10:00am, subject to availability.
Elvis Costello’s wide-ranging recording career began in 1977 with the release of My Aim Is True in a catalogue that include such diverse highlights as This Year’s Model, Get Happy, Imperial Bedroom, King Of America, Blood & Chocolate, The Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet, The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint and Wise Up Ghost with The Roots.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters’ widely renowned Look Now was released in 2018 and of which Variety said, “It’s so funny to be seeing him, after all this time, making a great cake of an album that doesn’t really sound that much like any of the 30 before it.” The catalogue will soon include the E.P., Purse, containing songwriting collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney and musical settings of lyrics by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1976, Blondie has brought the worlds of Rock, Punk, Disco and Ska together and racked up four indelible Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits – “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture ” – as well as six #1s on the UK Singles Chart including “Maria,” “Sunday Girl” and “Atomic.” Debbie Harry – genre-spanning visionary, complex songstress, incandescent front woman and style icon – and the band’s boundary-pushing Pop have shaped the look and sound of many chart-topping female artists who have followed and have made Blondie widely recognized as one of the most influential bands of our time.
Ever the bona fide international ambassadors of New York cool, Blondie – vocalist-songwriter Debbie Harry, guitarist and co-writer Chris Stein, powerhouse drummer Clem Burke, and long-time band members bassist Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen – has become and still remains a true national treasure; one whose influence both shaped and continues to inform the worlds of music, fashion, art and pop culture. Blondie’s chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, a NME Godlike Genius Award in 2014, a Q Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2016, and more than 50 million albums sold worldwide to date.
Mohegan Sun Arena is now ranked consistently among the top venues in the world according to Billboard Magazine, Pollstar and Venues Now. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently ranked among the top three “Arenas in the World for its Size” and top 15 in the “World for All Size Venues.” The award-winning venue is 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.
Mar 28, 2019 | Entertainment
Live November 22nd with special guests Morgan Wallen and Jameson Rodgers
UNCASVILLE, CT (March 28, 2019) – CMA and ACM Award-winning musician, Luke Combs, will extend his sold-out “Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour” through this fall. The newly confirmed dates make a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, November 22nd at 7:30pm. Special guests include Morgan Wallen and Jameson Rodgers.
Tickets are $99.00, $79.00 and $59.00 and go on sale Friday, April 5th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to Ticketmaster.com or call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning on Saturday, April 6th at 10:00am, subject to availability.
Earlier this week, Combs made history as the first artist to simultaneously top all five Billboard Country charts for multiple weeks: “Top Country Albums,” “Hot Country Songs,” “Country Airplay,” “Country Streaming Songs” and “Country Digital Song Sales” (dated March 9th and March 30th).
The success comes on the heels of Combs’ 2x Platinum single, “Beautiful Crazy,” which remains #1 on the Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart for the third-straight week and holds strong at #1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for the fifth-straight week. This is his fastest rising single to date (15 weeks) and makes Combs the first artist ever to send his first five singles to the top of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. “Beautiful Crazy” is also the first Country single shipped to radio already platinum-certified since Taylor Swift’s “Red” in 2013 and has more than 301 million on-demand streams.
Already the 2019 ACM Award-winner for “New Male Artist of the Year,” Combs is also nominated for “Male Artist of the Year” at this year’s awards and will perform during the ceremony. The 2019 ACM Awards will broadcast live on CBS Sunday, April 7th at 8:00pm.
These achievements add to an already monumental year for Combs, whose breakthrough debut album, This One’s For You, is now certified RIAA double Platinum. Since its release on June 2, 2017, the album has spent a total of 29 non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, including 16 weeks in 2018, making it the highest selling Country album last year with 1.1 million equivalent album units sold and the only Country album to surpass 1 million album units. It’s also the most-streamed Country album of 2019 so far. Additionally, Combs was recently named “Country Artist of the Year” at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, “New Artist of the Year” at the 52nd Annual CMA Awards, was nominated for “Best New Artist” at the 61st Grammy Awards and was the recipient of a CMA “Triple Play Award” for writing three #1 songs in a 12 month period.
Mohegan Sun Arena is now ranked consistently among the top venues in the world according to Billboard Magazine, Pollstar and Venues Now. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently ranked among the top three “Arenas in the World for its Size” and top 15 in the “World for All Size Venues.” The award-winning venue is 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.
Mar 25, 2019 | Entertainment
Announcing new album and the Hello tour
UNCASVILLE, CT (March 25, 2019) – International superstar, Lionel Richie, takes fans on a spectacular musical journey with his new album, Live from Las Vegas and Hello Tour. The album set for release on August 23rd and Lionel brings the Hello tour to Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, July 20th at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $205.50, $105.50, $85.50 and $65.50 and go on sale Friday, March 29th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to Ticketmaster.com or call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning on Saturday, March 30th at 10:00am, subject to availability.
Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of Pop music; in fact, Richie is one of only two songwriters in history to achieve the honor of having #1 records for nine consecutive years. With more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, four Grammy Awards, the distinction of “MusicCares Person of the Year” in 2016, and Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017. In March 2018, Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for “Music Special International Award.” The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and co-wrote one of the most important Pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.”
Richie was a judge on ABC’s American Idol this past season and has returned to the ‘Judge’s’ chair for the 2019 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie-All the Hits, at The Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. The highly successful residency wrapped in October 2018 after a three-year run.
With his most recent All the Hits, All Night Long Tour, Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Mohegan Sun Arena is now ranked consistently among the top venues in the world according to Billboard Magazine, Pollstar and Venues Now. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently ranked among the top three “Arenas in the World for its Size” and top 15 in the “World for All Size Venues.” The award – winning venue is 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.
