Apr 1, 2024 | Breaking News, Entertainment
Tickets on sale Friday, April 5th
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 1, 2024) – Following three successful tours across the world, the Counting Crows return to the road for an unforgettable show at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, July 13th. The show filled with their timeless hits starts at 8:00pm.
Tickets are available on Friday, April 5th at 10:00am via Ticketmaster.com. Subject to availability, Rock fans can purchase tickets at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting on Saturday, April 6th.
For more than two decades, the GRAMMY and Academy Award-nominated Rock band Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless Rock & Roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring Rock bands.
In October 1996, the band’s double-platinum sophomore studio album, Recovering the Satellites, debuted at number one and further solidified their growing reputation as one of the leading American Alternative Rock bands in the world. A follow up to their early success; Counting Crows went on to release This Desert Life (1999), Hard Candy (2002), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008), Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) (2012), Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow (2013), and Somewhere Under Wonderland (2014.) In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidently in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.”
In September 2014, Counting Crows released their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, Somewhere Under Wonderland, which debuted at No. 10 on the charts and was heralded by The Daily Telegraph as “… the best collection of songs since their debut.” The album consisted of nine sprawling tracks around rich sonic tapestries, which yielded some of the most grandiose, yet intimate songs Counting Crows had recorded to date. 2018 marked 25 years since the band’s inception and sent Adam Duritz, Jim Bogios, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, David Immergluck, Millard Powers, and Dan Vickrey back on the road for the 25 YEARS AND COUNTING tour. In 2021, Counting Crows ranked number eight on Billboards’ “Greatest of All Time: Adult Alternative Artists” 25th anniversary chart.
After seven years, Adam Duritz and Counting Crows released Butter Miracle: Suite One in May 2021 to rave reviews. The band also kicked off their first tour since 2018, The Butter Miracle Tour, in 2021 with sell-out performances across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The band most recently wrapped the 56-date Banshee Season Tour, featuring special guests Dashboard Confessional and Frank Turner and announced summer 2024 tour dates with Santana.
ABOUT MOHEGAN SUN ARENA
Mohegan Sun Arena, one of the busiest sports and entertainment venues in the world today, was awarded the 2024 Newsweek Readers’ Choice award for “Best Casino with Live Entertainment in America”. In 2021, the 10,000-seat Arena also received its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its size in the world from Pollstar and VenuesNow. Mohegan Sun Arena is consistently recognized among the top five venues in the United States, and also in 2021 was named “Innovator of the Year” by Celebrity Access for its ViacomCBS residency during the pandemic. In recent years, the “Most Beloved Venue in America” has also been named the “World’s Best Casino Venue,” by Best of Hartford Magazine, and is a seven-time national award winner for “Arena of the Year” by the Academy of Country Music Awards and G2E Las Vegas. 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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Apr 11, 2016 | Entertainment
Music Superstars perform at Mohegan Sun together on August 6th
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 11, 2016) – Two of music’s most captivating live performers will unite for their first time touring together this summer. Multiplatinum-selling band Counting Crows and multiple Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Rob Thomas announced a co-headlining tour today that will blaze a trail this summer across North America. The 39 date tour will begin in West Palm Beach, FL on July 22, and stop by Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, August 6th at 6:45pm.
Tickets are $56.00 & $36.00 and go on sale Friday, April 15th 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 starting Saturday, April 16th, subject to availability.
Counting Crows – Adam Duritz (vocals), Jim Bogios (drums), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards), David Immergluck (guitar), Millard Powers (bass) and Dan Vickrey (guitar) – have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide after exploding onto the music scene with their multiplatinum breakout album
August and Everything After in 1993. The band released their seventh studio album
Somewhere Under Wonderland in September 2014. Known for creating unique and innovative concerts, Counting Crows is recognized as one of the pre-eminent touring live Rock bands.
Rob Thomas is one of modern music’s most compelling and commercially successful artists. For 20 years, he has been the front man and primary composer for Matchbox Twenty, leading the quintet to multiplatinum success over the course of four albums and a string of #1 hits that include “Push,” “3AM,” “Bent,” “If You’re Gone” and “Unwell.” Thomas recently released his 3rd solo album,
The Great Unknown the follow up to 2005’s platinum-certified #1 album
…Something To Be and 2009’s
cradlesong. Thomas made history with
…Something to Be as being the first album by a male artist from a Rock or Pop group to debut at #1 on the
Billboard 200. With
cradlesong he made history once again as the only male artist with multiple #1 hits at Adult Top 40, tying Pink with most #1s by a solo artist in the
Billboard 200 chart’s history. “Smooth,” Thomas’ collaboration with Santana was recently named the top all-time track on
Billboard‘s
Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart , the #2 Pop song of all time and the #1 song of the Rock-era by
Billboard. Additionally Thomas was the first artist ever to be honored with the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s prestigious “Hal David Starlight Award,” created to recognize a composer in the early years of his or her career that has already made a lasting impact.
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.
Jun 16, 2009 | Entertainment
Beloved rockers perform on Saturday, August 29th
Mohegan Sun Arena is sure to come alive when Counting Crows and special guests Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana rock the house live on Saturday, August 29th at 8:00pm.
Tickets are $60.00 and $45.00 and go on sale Friday, June 19th 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 20th subject to availability.
Counting Crows’ success dates back to their 1993 debut release August And Everything After and the hit single “Mr. Jones.” Subsequent albums include Recovering the Satellites (1996); Across A Wire: Live in New York City (1998); This Desert Life (1999) and Hard Candy (2002) which featured the band’s Top 10 cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” Additional successes include # 1 hit with the song “Accidentally In Love,” which was featured on the Shrek 2 soundtrack, as well as nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for the track.
In 2003 the band released their first ever “Best Of” set Films About Ghosts which featured songs from every phase of Counting Crows’ recording career, followed by the live album New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003 which appeared in 2006. Counting Crows’ most recent studio album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings was released in March of 2008. To date, Counting Crows have sold over 20 million records worldwide.
Michael Franti & Spearhead are touring in support of their sixth studio album All Rebel Rockers. Produced largely in Jamaica by super-duo Sly and Robbie, All Rebel Rockers is a Reggae-steeped record filled with hope and dissent.
Augustana released their second album, Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt, in April 2008. Their first single from the album, “Sweet and Low,” is currently riding the airwaves.
For more information on Counting Crows with special guests Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana 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.
