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U2 (Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton with Bram van den Berg) lit up the Sphere stage with a mind-blowing opening night of their highly-anticipated U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere shows, reinventing the live music experience with the launch of the world’s most cutting-edge venue in Las Vegas, Saturday, September 30, 2023.
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This weekend’s Grammy Awards will feature a performance from U2 at Sphere. On Sunday, February 4, the 66th annual Grammy show will be broadcast on CBS from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and the Vegas segment will be the first broadcast performance from Sphere, which opened in September with U2’s concert residency. Trevor Noah will host the Grammys and other scheduled performers include Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo.
Legendary Mexican pop and rock group Los Bukis, which visited Vegas in August along its record-breaking reunion tour for a concert at Allegiant Stadium, is set to launch the first full Spanish-language concert residency on the Las Vegas Strip at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Presented with Live Nation and MGM Resorts International, the Los Bukis residency includes 15 performances starting on May 3 and continuing through September 21, with tickets on sale February 2 at ticketmaster.com/LosBukisVegas.
At last, an opening date: “DiscoShow,” long in development for the Strip from Spiegelworld, will premiere July 27 at the Linq. Tickets go on sale starting February 3 at spiegelworld.com. And as expected but not previously confirmed, there’s much more than just a new show coming to the center-Strip resort just across the way from Spiegelworld’s “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace. The 70-minute “DiscoShow,” inspired by New York City dance parties of the 1970s, will perform at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and the new venue also includes cocktail bars 99 Prince and Glitterloft and restaurant Diner Ross. “I believe what the people want is to feel the love. To be transported from the everyday,” explained Spiegelworld impresario Ross Mollison in this week’s announcement. “Their mind blown by a performance. Their taste buds thrilled by a delicious cocktail. And then to crash into dinner. … [This] culinary and entertainment offering is unrivaled by any other in Las Vegas history. I urge you to get your thesaurus out and set the volume to hyperbolic; the people need to know how Vegas this is gonna be.”
A special music and comedy limited engagement is coming to the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan this spring. R&B hitmaker Toni Braxton and funnyman Cedric The Entertainer are teaming up for “Love & Laughter,” a co-headlining event scheduled for seven shows running from April 27 through July 13. Tickets go on sale February 2 at cosmopolitanlasvegas.com.
More Vegas entertainment announcements from the past week: multiplatinum country music artist Dylan Scott will perform during the annual Race Jam concert series at the Fremont Street Experience on March 2; the Isley Brothers will perform at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms on March 23; rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony performs at Brooklyn Bowl on April 5; singer and songwriter Leon Bridges will take the stage at the Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on April 25; Ali Wong will return to perform four shows over two nights at Encore Theater at Wynn April 26-27; Justin Timberlake plans a Vegas tour stop at T-Mobile Arena for May 10; Avril Lavigne brings her greatest hits tour to MGM Grand Garden Arena on June 1; the Australian Pink Floyd Show returns to the Theater at Virgin on August 17; country singer Creed Fisher brings his latest tour to the Chrome Showroom at Santa Fe Station on August 31; and iconic artists Billy Joel and Sting will team for a one-night-only concert at Allegiant Stadium on November 9.
Producer Sir Harry Cowell, who created the long-running Las Vegas live tribute show favorite “Raiding the Rock Vault,” will launch an alternative version of the show, “Raiding the Emo Vault,” on April 12 at Hard Rock Live on the Strip. “I have been wanting to stage the ‘Emo Vault’ for a long time,” he said in a statement. “The emo phenomena has a massive worldwide fan base selling out festivals year-in, year-out. Now the time is ripe to showcase the music on a more regular basis.” Songs from My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy and other bands will be featured, and tickets will be available soon.
This year’s Keep Memory Alive Power of Love gala, set for May 10 at MGM Grand Garden Arena, will honor the career of country star Blake Shelton, who recently opened his bar, restaurant and live music venue Ole Red on the Las Vegas Strip in front of Horseshoe. “Blake Shelton’s music rocks our world, but it’s his philanthropy that steals the show and touches countless lives and we are proud to honor him,” KMA co-founder and chairman Larry Ruvo said in a statement. Headlining entertainers for the 27th annual gala are expected to be announced soon, and tickets are on sale now at keepmemoryalive.org/POL.
