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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton arrive on the red carpet for her new residency at Planet Hollywood Thursday, June 28, 2018.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 | 2 a.m.
Las Vegas Strip resident headliner Gwen Stefani sort of returns to something like a Vegas stage this month. She’ll be a guest performer, along with country star Trace Adkins, during Blake Shelton’s Encore Drive-In Nights show, a concert feature filmed exclusively for drive-in theaters across North America.
It will be available at the West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In in North Las Vegas at a showtime of 8:20 p.m. on July 25. Tickets are on sale today at encorenights.com at $114.99 per vehicle.
The series is produced by Encore Live in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to utilize drive-in theaters across the country as a safe, creative way to deliver fans world-class entertainment in open-air layouts. The first experience was a successful June 27 show by Garth Brooks, who is still currently planned to perform the first concert event at Allegiant Stadium on August 22.
Drive-in theaters hosting the Encore Drive-In Nights adhere to CDC recommended guidelines as well as all state and local health mandates, according to the producers. Staff will wear personal protective equipment and enforce at least six feet of space between cars. The series will also use contactless payment and ticketing systems and limit capacity in restrooms. Guidelines around concessions will be enforced to abide by individual state regulations.
“After the overwhelming response to Garth Brooks’ drive-in concert feature, we knew we had to launch Encore Drive-In Nights to provide music fans across the USA and Canada the chance to see their favorite artists in a cool new way,” said Encore Live Founder and CEO Walter Kinzie. “We can’t wait to bring music’s biggest stars to outdoor movie screens all across North America so that people can get back out there again and safely enjoy engaging in-person experiences.”
For a virtual performance from a different Las Vegas headliner, visit nugs.net/live-santana to download and stream Carlos Santana’s House of Blues at Mandalay Bay residency show from January 29, 2020. Santana recently made the Vegas concert available and pricing starts at just $9.95.
