Apr 8, 2019 | Entertainment
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 12th
UNCASVILLE, CT (April 8, 2019) – The Grammy and Golden Globe winning superstar, Queen Latifah, has broken down barriers in the music industry and continues to prove she can have it all. She’s a musician, critically acclaimed television and film actress, label president, author, and entrepreneur. Don’t miss Queen Latifah at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, July 13th at 8:00pm.
Tickets are $45.00, $35.00 and $25.00 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.
Latifah has had amazing success in Hollywood and became the first Hip-Hop artist to be crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. She received rave reviews, an Oscar nomination for “Best Supporting Actress,” a Golden Globe nomination and a SAG Award nomination for her portrayal as Mama Morton in Chicago. She also received an Emmy nomination, a Golden Globe win and a SAG Award win for her role in Life Support.
Queen Latifah has earned six Grammy nominations as well as a Grammy Award for “Best Solo Rap Performance” in 1994. In 2004, she was nominated for “Best Female Rap Solo Performance” for Go Head. In 2005, she was nominated for “Best Jazz Vocal Album” for The Dana Owens Album and in 2008 she was nominated for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” for Trav’lin Light.
Most recently, Queen Latifah took to the stage and small screen performing as the title character in NBC’s The Wiz Live! Queen Latifah can currently be seen in Ice Age: Collision Course which will hit theatres in July as she returns to be the voice of the Wooly Mammoth, Ellie.
Latifah made her big screen debut in Spike Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. She starred in Set it Off, and co-starred in the critically acclaimed Living Out Loud. Following Chicago, she starred in and executive-produced the box office hit Bringing Down the House. Her additional film credits include The Secret Life of Bees, Hairspray, Mad Money, Just Wright, Joyful Noise, The Last Holiday, and Beauty Shop.
In September 2013, Queen Latifah became the host of her very own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, which she produced with partner Shakim Compere, and Overbrook Entertainment’s Will Smith, Jada Smith and James Lassiter. The Queen Latifah Show premiered for its second and final season September 2014.
And then there’s Flavor Unit Entertainment, a production company owned and operated by Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere and is quickly establishing itself as one of the most important production companies in the film industry.
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 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 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.
