Stevie @ MGM Foxwoods August 28th, 2010
 

According to MGM Foxwoods twitter account Stevie will be in CT on 8/28

"Stevie Nicks at the MGM Grand Theater August 28!"
http://twitter.com/mgmfoxwoodsCT

I couldn't find anymore information online yet.

Edit: Link works fine. Must have been busy!!

I prefer Mohegan Sun only because it's quicker to get to but Foxwoods will work too. Foxwoods is smaller and is a theater rather than an arena. First show I saw there I had second row seats so maybe my luck will work for this one!!

Oh dear... what's next?

-Casino Rama
-Turning Stone Casino
-Yonkers Raceway???

Is the woman getting paid in poker chips??

So now we have 2 dates, looks like I might be seeing a "Stevie Solo Show" this summer!?!? She will surely do some Calif. dates!?!?!?:shrug:

No way! She never plays there.

Sure if you don't mind Casino Morongo lol.

:laugh: Silly me :]

I really wish Stevie would play at the Paramount Theatre, in Denver.

http://www.paramountdenver.com/

The stage is far bigger than it looks and the sound is phenomenal. Smaller concerts are so much better, anyway. I've seen Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple and Siouxsie & The Banshees here, and they were all great shows.

Red Rocks is nice and all, but eh.

Casinos are easy money for the performer. Stevie's last stop at a regular venue here in CT was back in '01 on the TISL tour. Since then she's only been at the casino. Same with Fleetwood Mac, their last two times thru were at the casino. They make more money at the casinos than at the arenas. This is why many people plant themselves in Vegas, the money pours in and there's no travel.

I'll bet they're even comping her room! :p


God, I hope she doesn't play the casino here. The venue sucks.

Aren't there a ton of them on either side of the Falls? I think that could be kind of neat- seeing the falls and going to the show. I haven't been to Niagra Falls in, like, 30 years, but I remember that it was kinda breathtaking.

or she might just do two dates.

There may be an additional 1 to 3 dates added in the region, most likely at the usual suspects (venues already listed in this thread). She'll probably work that whole week leading up to Labor Day weekend, with a Canada gig (ie. Casino Rama) on that weekend wrapping it up.

To assume anything else is wildly unfounded speculation, IMO. That's not to say that there might be some west coast dates in the fall (who knows), but these two announced dates give no indication to that happening.

I would love it if Stevie did a proper 2500-3500 seater theater tour. Problem is, there's just not enough money in it for her.

She needs to stop playing casinos!!!

I just hope that she continues this tour into Europe later in the year, but I very much doubt she will...

Just like Ann & Nancy :distress: At least Blondie still love us!

This is true...

Especially when they play connecticut the casinos can accompadate the artists especially in connecticut where we don't have a ritz carlton that would accomadate them but the casino can do that usually if they play connecticut and its not the casinos they stay in New York or Boston. To Me its all good where ever they play just glad she is playing a show in CT will take the day of the show off and and the day after off from work that day. cant wait. the twitter page is the venues official twitter page so they just go the news so its good to give us heads up on the shows and plan.

can't wait for this show its going to be awesome and hope she will play news song from her up coming new cd with Dave Stewart. hope its an evening with show.

Exactly! Her value is depreciating as we speak!

I'm sure it will be. It's not like it's the county fair or something (although that may be next).

Yes me too.I love to see her come to the Toyota Oakdale Theatre Here in Wallingford CT.This place was here all my life.I can beat the traffic by walking to this venue.

Also This is great she coming here,I've never seen a show at the MGM yet.Let see if the security are ballbusters like Mohegan Sun's are.

I love to see her do the fair circuits,at lease at these show they have meet and greet sessions,I've met alot of artists at fairs over the years.she can come to The Durham Fair ,the next own over from me, The Big E up in Mass,

You're right and the tickets are cheaper!

She played there already a couple of years ago.

She needs to do a Mick Fleetwood and come to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall!

From a fans point of view that would be great, and there's definitely enough of those venues around the US to keep her going forever, but unless she's forced to because she can't sell the larger venues, why would she. She'd have to play 3 times as many shows to generate enough revenue to fit her lifestyle. She'd be on the road for far longer periods of time... I think it would knock her out to keep that sort of pace and with Stevie's stamina I'm not sure she could do it unless her show was really tamed down and relaxed. With casino dates, I'm guessing she still pulls in a decent pay cheque, doesn't have to play all that many shows in a run and the venues are smaller, so it's kind of a meeting in the middle.

To be fair, the two main, good-sized indoor venues in Connecticut are within the casino complexes. Mohegan Sun is preferable, imo, but the MGM at Foxwoods is gaining steam since opening last year. Sure, there's the Oakdale, but that place is a barn and hardly ANYONE plays there, where most major acts hit Mohegan or Foxwoods on their tours. So it's not like she's playing a casino for the sake of playing a casino, it's where the venue is. It's not like she's playing the Wolf Den (and hell, some awesome people HAVE, so even if she was...).

I'm curious if one of the reasons Jana was dropped is for monetary reasons...one less backup singer to pay. And like my friend also mentioned, she's already dropped the percussionist.

Can't say I agree with that statement. MGM Foxwood is usually for the "Elite". I HATE anything Foxwoods....ahhh! However, it is exciting to know Stevie will be here in CT again giving so many of us the opportunity to see her. I am just concerned about her set list being the same as eva (sigh)....She has so much more to offer! Well, we Stevie fans will just have to stay tuned.....:blob2:

Im wanting a show in PHOENIX!:thumbsup: Im sure theres a heart institute that could always use support!:D

Casinos are kind of getting a bad rap. The fact is the casino venue is becoming more and more popular. Here in CT almost EVERY act that comes thru plays either Foxwoods or Mohegan. It used to be the Hartford Civic Center or the Meadows, but very few shows play there anymore. You get the big summer tours at the Meadows, and people like Springsteen at the Civic Center, but everyone else hits the casinos.
The arena at the Mohegan Sun was built to house the WNBA team (they still play there all the time) but they started booking concerts there and it became hugely successful. Foxwoods initially only had your typical casino acts, Wayne Newton, Bobby Vinton, Steve and Edie, but when Mohegan started selling out huge rock and country shows, Foxwoods saw a huge drop in concert business. Last year they opened the MGM Grand Theater and now they are getting bigger mainstream acts.
To play a casino these days is not like playing Vegas in the 70's or 80's.

Yes, all of this is true.

I don't think most people have a problem with Stevie playing casinos- its just annoying & obviously telling when Stevie ONLY plays casinos (and the random zoo amphitheater/BFE sh*thole dumb enough to pay what she demands). Rather than attempt to mount (or even give the vague impression of mounting) a national tour, she plays the same venues/same markets for as much money as possible with as little effort/unpredictability expended.

Does she have the right to do this? Absolutely. I think its awesome that Stevie can still make untold amounts of money playing mainly to gambling addicts/bluehairs (not referring to fellow Ledgies :) ) year in and year out. But, admit that she's a nostalgia act. (this Dave Stewart thing will trend out to maybe one or two new songs, released on iTunes. book it.) She's done.

In some ways i think you're right, and in others i don't. If Stevie were a nostalgia act, she would be unable to make the kind of money she does, because no one would stand for it. Now obviously, she is no Madonna when it comes to the kind of shows she puts on and the kind of press her tours get, but when you go see her, you get way more than a throwback concert at the diggery-doo.

And i think if she were done, people wouldn't continue to be in awe of her, like when she appeared at the Grammys. That got so much press because it showed the general public that Stevie Nicks still has what it takes to outshine someone as popular and relevent as Taylor Swift.

So very true.

In some ways Stevie makes the kind of money because it's about nostalgia... When you tour year in year out without releasing new music you are touring on nostalgia. She hasn't released a solo in 9 years and nothing new since 2003 - 7 years! That's a long time. She outshines someone like Taylor Swift in ways because of respect, because of her longevity, her history. Plus, Taylor Swift kind of sucked that night - which was to Stevie's benefit.

OMG! That's my birthday! Seeing Stevie would be the best birthday present ever! :blob2:

I couldn't think of a greater birthday present, lucky you:thumbsup: I only hope she makes her way to Australia again:cool: