‘Green River’ meets Canal Shops as John Fogerty set for eight-show spree at Venetian

By John Katsilometes

Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 | 11:10 a.m.

The onetime home of “Phantom” is welcoming John Fogerty.

Announced today is a quickie residency by rock icon Fogerty at Venetian Theater from Jan. 8 to 23. This confirms information I posted on Twitter in August. The show is titled “Peace, Love and Creedence,” as the co-founder of Creedence Clearwater Revival is hearkening to that band’s hit-making heyday of the late-’60s and early ’70s.

The band had a half dozen Top Five hits in 1969 and 1970, all of them rock classics (“Proud Mary,” “Born on the Bayou,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Up Around the Bend” and “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”). “Fortunate Son” reached No. 14 in that stretch, and Fogerty promises a return to 1969, especially in his stage show at Venetian.

Show dates are Jan. 8-9, 13, 15-16, 20 and 22-23. Tickets start at $59.50 (absent fees) and go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 9 at any Venetian or Palazzo box office, online at Venetian.com/entertainment/shows/john-fogerty and by phone at (702) 414-9000 and (866) 641-7469.

Along with the significant CCR hit collection, Fogerty also promises such solo hits as “Centerfield” in a performance that will blend rock with stories of Fogerty’s life and career buoyed by vintage video footage.

Fogerty’s most recent appearance in Las Vegas was in July 2012 as part of the star-laden lineup that opened the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Armed with a guitar shaped like a Louisville Slugger, he played a four-song medley that was recorded for the “Dust to Dreams” PBS special from the premiere night at Reynolds Hall.

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