Jan 28, 2016 | Entertainment, General News
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” By Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello (From Fifth Harmony) now approaching platinum, firmly top 10 at Pop Radio and Top 10 on itunes; “Stiches,” certified 4x platinum.
UNCASVILLE, CT (January 28, 2016) – With his #1 debut platinum album, #1 single “Stitches” and now second Pop Radio hit “I Know What You Did Last Summer” extending his momentum into the new year, Island Records recording artist Shawn Mendes has announced his 38 date Shawn Mendes World Tour. The new dates start in Europe with 11 shows in April-May and then arrive in North America with 26 dates starting on July 15th at Mizner Park Amphitheater and making its way to Mohegan Sun Arena for a Friday, August 19th concert beginning at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $35.00 and go on sale Saturday, February 6th through Ticketmaster at 10:00am. 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 Sunday, February 7th, subject to availability.
Fan Club pre-sale for the Shawn Mendes World Tour will start on February 1st at 4:00pm local time, American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Tuesday, February 2nd at 10:00am local time through Friday, February 5th at 10:00pm local time. Fans can access the pre-sale by going to ShawnAccess.com, getting a code and then purchasing the “ShawnAccess Tour Passport Pre-sale Bundle” on the show’s ticketing site. First 50 ticket purchases in each city (25 from pre-sale, 25 from regular on-sale) will win a Meet-&-Greet with Shawn at their respective concerts.
“I Know What You Did Last Summer,” the single by Shawn and Camila Cabello of Fifth Harmony which is now approaching platinum, has gone Top 10 at Pop Radio, Top 10 on iTunes, Top 20 on the U.S. Spotify chart and Top 30 on Spotify’s Global Top 50. The video for “IKWYDLS” is currently past 40 million YouTube views. Shawn and Camila wrote the song together backstage in his green room at Taylor Swift’s The 1989 World Tour show last summer, and recorded it secretly in New York and Los Angeles.
When Handwritten, now platinum with a total of over 2 million global adjusted sales, entered Soundscan at #1 last year, it made Shawn the youngest artist in five years to chart a #1 album on the Billboard 200. “IKWYDLS” follows up Shawn’s run of consecutive hit singles “Life of The Party” (RIAA platinum), “Something Big” (RIAA platinum) and “Stitches” (RIAA 4x-platinum). “Stitches” went to #1 on US Pop and Hot AC radio, becoming a certifiable airplay and sales smash around the world. In addition to topping the official singles chart in the UK this week, the single has hit #1 on iTunes in over 20 markets, and reached Top 5 on the Global Spotify chart. Shawn also took home the MTV EMA for “Best New Artist” and the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Breakout Artist.”
Shawn Mendes socials:
VEVO Views: over 430 million
Vine Followers: over 4.5 million
Twitter Followers: over 5.3 million
Instagram Followers: over 7.2 million
Facebook Likes: over 3.4 million
shawnmendesofficial.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. Also in 2013, Mohegan Sun won “Casino of The Year” in 2 categories at the Academy of Country Music Awards. 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.” 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.
Dec 16, 2015 | Entertainment, General News
With special guest Dustin Lynch; Tickets on sale Friday, January 8th
UNCASVILLE, CT (December 16, 2015) – Luke Bryan will embark on a brand new tour for 2016, the “Kill The Lights Tour.” The first leg will launch on February 16th in Indiana and heads to Uncasville, CT for a concert on both Friday, February 26th and Saturday, February 27th. Citi is the official credit card of Luke’s “Kill the Lights Tour.”
Tickets are $139.00 and $99.00 and go on sale Friday, January 8th through Ticketmaster and livenation.com. 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 are also on sale at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, January 9th, subject to availability.
Luke Bryan’s career boasts over four million in album sales and multiple #1 singles, most recently with the hit, “Strip It Down,” from his platinum selling album, Kill The Lights. Bryan is also nominated for two People’s Choice awards, coming up on January 6th and recently was named “Entertainer of the Year” at the 2015 Country Music Awards.
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. 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.” 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.
Dec 8, 2015 | Entertainment, General News
Paper Gods Tour kicks off March 28, 2016 and will support release of band’s latest Billboard Top 10 album
UNCASVILLE, CT (December 8, 2015) – In what is promising to be one of the most eagerly anticipated tours of 2016, multi-platinum superstars Duran Duran have announced that they will hit the road for an extensive North American arena and amphitheatre tour next year in support of their current album Paper Gods. The legendary band, CHIC, led by guitarist Nile Rodgers, will appear as special guests on almost all of the dates with an additional support act to be announced. Rodgers served as a producer on Paper Gods and has enjoyed a long collaborative history with Duran Duran. Mohegan Sun Arena is primed for a Thursday, April 7th concert, beginning at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $83.90 and $63.90 and go on sale Saturday, December 12th through Ticketmaster and livenation.com. 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 are also on sale at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Sunday, December 13th, subject to availability.
The Paper Gods Tour will kick off on March 28, 2016 in Durham, NC and will be divided into two legs. The first runs through April with shows up and down the East Coast of America into Canada, including Washington DC, Brooklyn, NY, Atlanta, Austin and Montreal. The second leg returns the band to the road Stateside in July and continues through early August with shows in Las Vegas, Irvine, San Diego, Toronto and more.
Every ticket purchased online for Duran Duran’s 2016 headline tour will receive a standard physical copy of Paper Gods. Fans will receive an email 10-14 days after purchase containing redemption instructions. Festival dates are not included.
Members of the Duran Duran Fan Community will have access to pre-sale tickets and exclusive VIP packages beginning Wednesday, December 9th at 10:00am local venue time through duranduranmusic.com. Citi® cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Thursday, December 10th at 10:00am local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit citiprivatepass.com. Fans with the Live Nation mobile app will have access to a password-free presale starting Friday, December 11th at 10:00am at Ticketmaster-ticketed venues. The app is available via the App Store and Google Play.
Duran Duran’s four original members: singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor, and drummer Roger Taylor, performed a few special West Coast shows with CHIC around the release of Paper Gods in October before embarking on a U.K. arena tour that wraps up on December 12th.
In its review of the band’s recent Leeds show, The Guardian raved that “everything that is wonderful about Pop music seems to occupy the triumphant final half hour, as a sea of blondes, brunettes and husbands come together to bellow ‘Planet Earth,’ ‘Girls on Film,’ ‘Rio,’ and the rest. Every arm is raised skyward in a giant communal bonding, an audiovisual illustration of Le Bon’s insistence that ‘music is a healing force.’”
Paper Gods was released worldwide on September 11th and bowed at #10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album chart, earning Duran Duran its highest-charting album in 22 years.
For more information on Duran Duran, visit: duranduran.com
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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. 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.” 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.
Dec 4, 2015 | Entertainment, General News
Tour starts on February 19th and comes to Mohegan Sun Arena on February 25th
UNCASVILLE, CT (December 4, 2015) – Following his acclaimed Broadway debut, Michael Flatley is proud to announce the highly anticipated U.S. tour of his Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games which, like the current Broadway engagement, Mr. Flatley himself will headline in what will mark his final onstage appearances as a performer following a remarkable 20 year run as the creator and star of the Lord of the Dance franchise. The production, subtitled Dangerous Games, which has already performed to sold-out audiences at the Playhouse Theatre in London and the Lyric Theatre in New York, will kick off its national tour at the BB&T Center in Florida and visit major cities in the U.S. including Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, among many others. Mohegan Sun Arena will host Lord of the Dance for a 7:30pm show on Thursday, February 25th.
Tickets are $49.00 and go on sale Monday, December 7th 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 Tuesday, December 8th subject to availability.
“We have heard requests from our fans across the country who could not make it to New York to bring the show to them and we have decided to do a small tour of the U.S.” said creator and performer Michael Flatley. “I haven’t performed in America for years and we are really looking forward to ending this tour and my time on stage with a bang!
Live Nation added, “Live Nation is thrilled to be part of the North American dates on the exciting Lord Of The Dance tour as the legendary Michael Flatley embarks on his farewell tour. He is an incredible talent and an inspiration for artists around the world.”
Trailblazing Irish dancer Michael Flatley is the creator of the internationally-recognizable brand Lord of the Dance which singlehandedly brought Irish Dance to a global audience with productions in countless countries around the world for over two decades. Of The Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games on Broadway, The New York Times said: “Undeniably exciting… Mr. Flatley’s charisma is incomparable.”
Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games features a troupe of Irish Dance’s most accomplished performers, as well as Flatley protégés Morgan Comer, James Keegan and Fergal Keaney in the title role of the “Lord of the Dance.” The show also features exciting and ground-breaking new technology, including holographs, special effects lighting, dancing robots, world champion acrobats and, of course, the greatest team of Irish Dancers in the world. The score is composed by Gerard Fahy.
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. 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.” 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.
Nov 30, 2015 | Entertainment, General News
Tickets on sale this Friday
UNCASVILLE, CT (November 30, 2015) — By popular demand and in addition to the July 1st show, a 2nd Mohegan Sun Arena 5SOS concert has been added for Thursday, June 30th, scheduled for 7:30pm. Produced by Live Nation, this newly added Mohegan Sun Arena show now becomes the kickoff of this highly anticipated “Sounds Live Feels Live” North American tour. Other stops along the way include shows in New York City and Los Angeles.
Tickets are $74.50 and $54.50 and go on sale Friday, December 4th 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, December 5th, subject to availability.
In their second cover story on the band, Billboard noted, “5SOS is an anomaly in 2015: a Generation Z guitar band that sells records.…On Sounds Good Feels Good, the guitars thunder more…” Alternative Press, which awarded the album four stars, observed, “Sounds Good Feels Good delivers….The album finds its crux in the first single, ‘She’s Kinda Hot,’ with the triumphant line in the chorus: ‘We are the kings and queens of the new broken scene.’” Kerrang hailed it as a “killer new album” and gave it four K’s, noting, “Opener ‘Money’ explodes into one of the biggest anthems of the year.”
“She’s Kinda Hot,” which won “Song of the Summer” honors at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, topped the iTunes charts in 44 countries and was a Top 15 hit at Top 40 radio. 5 Seconds of Summer spent three months living together in a studio in Los Angeles, writing and recording Sounds Good Feels Good, which was executive produced by Rock veteran John Feldmann (All Time Low, Good Charlotte, Boys Like Girls).
The band is among the all-star lineup of artists featured on the 2015 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour. The New York City show, which will take place at Madison Square Garden, will be streamed live on Yahoo! at yahoo.com/iheartradio on Friday, December 11th, at 8:00pm ET and a 90-minute special will air on The CW on Thursday, December 17th at 8:00pm ET/PT.
5 Seconds of Summer’s self-titled debut album entered the Billboard 200 at #1, selling 260,000 units in the U.S. in its first week of release, marking the biggest debut for a new act in 2014 and the biggest debut ever by an Australian artist. It topped the iTunes charts in a total of 76 countries. The band has won numerous awards, including an American Music Award, a People’s Choice Award, five MTV European Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and an iHeartRadio Music Award. In 2015, 5 Seconds of Summer played to more than one million fans across three continents, including three massive sold-out nights at the SSE Wembley Arena in London.
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. Mohegan Sun Arena was also ranked among the top 10 Arena venues in the nation for 2014, regardless of size and in 2015, Mohegan Sun took home the IEBA award for “Casino 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, ext. 27163.
