Dec 11, 2017 | Entertainment, General News
Ranking amongst top concert venues in the world with major U.S. tours, sellouts and national awards
UNCASVILLE, CT (December 11, 2017) – Mohegan Sun Arena recorded yet another successful year of A-list national tours and national awards in 2017. Two major awards were “Prime Site” and “Casino of the Year,” bringing the total to 15 national awards for the Arena over nine years. Named in Connecticut Magazine as “Best of Connecticut 2017” for large entertainment venue, Mohegan Sun Arena continues to be one of the busiest venues in the world, and surpassed 11 million guests this year as well.
“I am blessed to have so many talented people who help put our entertainment brand on the world stage – they are the reason we have a world-class venue sitting right in our backyard,” said Tom Cantone, Sr. VP of Sports and Entertainment.
Along with recognitions, 2017 brought in multiple Grammy winners, Billboard chart toppers and Top Hot 100 artists with a record of 39 sellouts, as well as two major sport franchises, CT Sun and Black Wolves Lacrosse who both made the playoffs, filling in some of 165 dates drawing some 800,000 fans.
Among the celebrated artists and bands in 2017, one of the hottest tours includes Lady Gaga’s, “Joanne World Tour” which hit
Mohegan Sun Arena with two sold-out shows. The Arena also hosted other highly touted tours that sold-out within minutes including Ed Sheeran, Bon Jovi, Neil Diamond, Depeche Mode, Journey, Pentatonix, Backstreet Boys and Ariana Grande.
Major National Awards and Tours:
- #1 Ranked Casino Venue in the World (Billboard, Pollstar, Venues Today)
- #1 Social Media Venue in the World for Size (Venues Today)
- Prime Site Award (Facilities & Event Management Magazine)
- Casino of the Year (IEBA – International Entertainment Buyers Association)
- Named Most Instagrammed Location in CT (Buzzfeed)
- 3rd in the U.S. for Size (Billboard)
- 3rd in the World for Size (Billboard)
- 39th in the World for All Size Venues (Pollstar)
- 17th in the U.S. for All Size Venues (Pollstar)
- Ed Sheeran – Grammy nomination for “Song of the Year;” Presented a check for $10,000 to the CT Children’s Hospital in his name
- Lady Gaga – 2017 American Music Awards “Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist;” Wore the CT Sun game jersey on stage during her show
- Katy Perry – Met the family of a local cancer victim who listened to her music during treatment. The full story is available to read here: Poughkeepsie Journal
- Bon Jovi – Rehearsed and started his “This House Is Not for Sale Tour” at Mohegan Sun Arena
- Ariana Grande – Grammy nominations: “Best Pop Vocal Album” and “Best Pop Solo Performance;” BBC Radio 1’s Teen Awards “Best International Solo Artist”
- The Weeknd – Power Artists (Billboard Power 100)
- Florida Georgia Line – “Top Country Song” (Billboard)
- Imagine Dragons – 2017 American Music Awards “Favorite Duo/Group Pop/Rock”
- Halsey – “Top Hot 100 Song,” “Top Collaboration,” “Top Dance/Electric Song” (Billboard); Grammy nomination for “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance”
- Vets Rock – With Joe Walsh and Eddie Money, raised a total of $250,000 for our Veterans and USO
*Rankings reflect mid-year reporting with year-end results due out January 2018.
Other notable national tours in 2017 included: Eric Church, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tim & Faith, Jason Aldean, Neil Diamond, The Who, New Kids on the Block, Pentatonix, Chris Rock and Kevin Hart.
Mohegan Sun Arena keeps pace in the New Year with big name acts set for 2018 as: Walk The Moon on January 20th, Dancing With The Stars on January 26th & 27th, Cole Swindell on February 17th, Little Big Town on February 23rd, Kid Rock on March 2nd, Alice Cooper on March 8th, Rod Stewart on March 24th, Celtic Woman on March 30th, Lorde on April 7th, Brett Eldredge on April 28th, Tim & Faith on June 15th and many more.
To view the full entertainment calendars for Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com/entertainment.
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.
Sep 15, 2016 | Entertainment
Performing live in Mohegan Sun Arena on April 27th & 28th 
UNCASVILLE, CT (September 15, 2016) – EMI Nashville recording artist Eric Church is hitting the road next spring and will bring the “Holdin’ My Own Tour” to Mohegan Sun Arena on April 27th and April 28th. Both shows will begin at 8:00pm.
Tickets are $99.00, $79.00 & $59.00 and go on sale Friday, September 23rd 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, September 24th, subject to availability.
For the first time ever, there will be no support act on this tour. Eric Church and the ECB will play two full sets with an intermission in between. In an effort to ensure his core fans get great tickets at face value, Church is revamping the pre-sale and on-sale process to eliminate scalpers from the equation.
“In this era where growing inequality seems to be the norm, we wanted to do everything within our power to put the advantage back in the hands of true fans rather than those that take advantage of the system, and by extension our people,” said John Peets, Church’s manager. “It was important to us to invest time into evaluating and redesigning the ticket buying process and build the technology to level the playing field.”
Church has secured a larger allotment of fan club tickets than in the past so Church Choir members will have much better success buying tickets in the pre-sale. The Church Choir pre-sale will be the ONLY pre-sale. There will be no venue, credit card or radio pre-sales. Church and his team developed a new fan club pre-sale system that allows them to remove scalpers from the pre-sale process before it even happens. Scalpers that are found to be gaming the system and posing as real fans won’t receive the buy link at all.
As on past tours, Church will continue to cancel any and all orders found to be made by scalpers. New for the Holdin’ My Own Tour, Church commissioned a proprietary technology that scrubs ticket purchases using up to 10 different data points and automatically flags orders made by scalpers. Orders may be cancelled at any time and without warning. Church cautions fans to stay away from the secondary market because it’s likely that tickets found there will be invalid by the time the show happens.
Finally, delivery of all ticket orders will be delayed until the days leading up to each show. Church hopes that this will make it impossible for scalpers to complete their transactions.
By doing this – investing time and energy to create a more efficient and balanced model – the Church team is not only communicating directly to the fans the best source for face value tickets, but also building a model that protects fans and can be adopted by the industry as a whole.
“The way this album came together mandated we release it as a surprise, straight to our fans, as it was important for me to deliver the music the same way the creativity hit me—directly and swiftly. What I didn’t anticipate is that it left me scratching my head a little as this year was supposed to be spent writing.” Church continues, “What this year’s open schedule did afford us was time to think through the way the fans experience our music live, and it was important to us that we find a way to stick to these same principles when it came to approaching our shows, down to the way they go on sale.”
Church’s 2014-2015’s The Outsiders World Tour topped Billboard’s “Hot Tours” consistently after Church set new attendance records in five markets. The Outsiders World Tour saw Church performing to over 800,000 fans in more than 65 cities with nearly 20 stops from September 2014 through September of 2015 and was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Must-See Tours.
For further details on the ticketing system plus tour information, “These Boots by Lucchese” and Church’s custom-designed Gibson Hummingbird Dark on tour, go to www.ericchurch.com.
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 14, 2014 | Entertainment, General News
Friday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT; Tickets on sale Friday, April 18th at 10:00am
Eric Church’s The Outsiders World Tour will launch in North America on September 11, 2014 with 31 arena dates. Church selected Dwight Yoakam as the special guest for the entire tour and critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Brandy Clark joins the bill as well for Mohegan Sun Arena’s two-night affair.
Tickets are $75.00 and $40.00 and go on sale Friday, April 18th 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, April 19th subject to availability. Additional information is available on EricChurch.com. Members of the Church Choir will have access to a pre-sale starting on April 15th.
Hailed as a top entertainer by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN Magazine and more, Church will bring his rip-roaring attitude when he performs at venues such as Madison Square Garden, Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the Sprint Center in Kansas City, the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Atlanta, Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, and FedExForum in Memphis, among others.
Church will also return to the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. where he sold more than 15,000 tickets in 2012 as part of his headlining arena tour, The Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour—which Pollstar named a Top Tour of 2012.
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. Also in 2013, Mohegan Sun won “Casino of The Year” in 2 categories at the Academy of Country Music Awards. 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.
May 19, 2009 | General News
Eric Church will be taking part in a “Signings & Sightings” event following his performance in the Wolf Den on June 19th
UNCASVILLE, CT (May 19, 2009)— Immediately following his performance in the Wolf Den on Friday, June 19th, rising Country music star Eric Church will participate in a “Signings & Sightings” event. This exclusive “Signings & Sightings” event will take place on the Spin Street Stage in The Shops at Mohegan Sun concourse, and is sponsored by Spin Street and The Shops at Mohegan Sun.
Eric Church’s performance is at 8:00pm in the Wolf Den. The Wolf Den is free and open to the public and seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Eric Church’s album Carolina will be available on the day of and leading up to this event in Spin Street, located in The Shops concourse.
North Carolina native Eric Church has built up an impressive catalogue of Country music since forming a solid partnership with producer Jay Joyce just prior to the recording of his debut album Sinner Like Me. The single “How Bout You” landed on the Country Top 20 chart and Sinner Like Me went on to be a huge success both commercially and critically. Church’s sophomore LP Carolina released this year, is already being touted as a “must-have” by fans and critics alike. The album teams Church and Joyce up once again and features the hit single “Love Your Love the Most” accompanied by standout tracks like “Longer Gone” and “Without You Here.”
Due to the short timeframe for the event and the number of fans expected, Eric Church will only be signing copies of his CDs. Absolutely no memorabilia of any kind can be signed.
Collaborating with Spin Street, Mohegan Sun’s one-of-a-kind “Signings & Sightings” program provides guests the opportunity to meet entertainment superstars and world-
renowned artists. In addition, the program provides entertainers the opportunity to get
up-close-and-personal with their fans in a unique and exciting venue in which to showcase their latest work. “Signings & Sightings” events are free and open to the public.
Spin Street, located in The Shops at Mohegan Sun, is one of the nation’s premier high- end music, movies, and memorabilia entertainment stores offering thousands of CDs spanning every genre imaginable from the roaring 20s through today and an unmatched selection of DVDs and video games. Spin Street carries an astounding array of personalized and one-of-a-kind pieces of autographed music, film and sports memorabilia and routinely hosts personal appearances by many of today’s musical heroes in intimate after-show CD signings.
Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribe, is one of the largest, most distinctive and spectacular entertainment, gaming, shopping and meeting destinations in the United States. Situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, 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.
