Metallica and Billy Joel are not quite co-headlining in February at Allegiant Stadium. But they are coming in on consecutive nights to close the month.
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Raiders House Band drummer Pepe Jimenez has played with Carlos Santana among several headliners and productions in Las Vegas.
Usher and Paris Hilton partied while Tiesto performed and Jeff Beacher networked during Resorts World’s opening Thursday night.
Shania Twain has been eager to get back onstage, and also hug those outside her inner circle.
Butch Bradley has been in Vegas for three years, but he feels like a native.
Several of Las Vegas’ famous pool-party spaces are back in business beginning in March and running through the summer.
Chicago has performed live every year since 1967, and says this year is not an exception.
Andrew Dice Clay returns to the Vegas stage at Laugh Factory at the Tropicana.
Franky Perez, on his “Crossing The Great Divide” tour: “I played alleys, sidewalks, porches, venues, bridges, health-care facilities, corn fields, lobbies, parks, parking lots.”
As a result of the COVID-19 shutdown, the Bellagio fountains turned off the faucet March 17.
Naomi Mauro says of herself and husband, Gio,“We can make bread, a lot of bread,” Mauro said in a phone chat this week. “At first it was therapeutic, but so far it’s been something people are enjoying, so that’s good.”
Brad Paisley challenged Darius Rucker, who played Foster Lloyd’s “You Can Come Cryin’ to Me,” and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum has performed Call Me a Dog” by Chris Cornell.
Las Vegas Strip headlining magician Mat Franco says of his show, “It’s a learn-as-we-go kind of thing, a way to push me out of my comfort zone and still reach an audience.”
“A Mob Story” producer Jeff Kutash confirmed the rough timeline and that the show would be in an open-ended residency beginning in May.
Of Super Bowl MVP QB Patrick Mahomes, club trailblazer Victor Drai said, “He was great, very sweet. He’s so young! He looks like he’s 18, but he’s not.”