Category: Mohegan

The Who vocalist Roger Daltrey’s 2024 solo tour will include a June 23 date at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville.

According to a press release, Daltrey will play “a mostly acoustic set of Who gems, rarities, solo nuggets and other surprises with an intimate rock-based band and setting.” There will also be a Q&A element to the show, with Daltrey answering questions from the audience.

The opening act will be Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall, whose latest album is her 2023 collaboration with Suzi Quatro “Face to Face.”

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, and if the show doesn’t sell out overnight, can be found at the Mohegan Sun box office on Saturday.

Daltrey has been a member of The Who since before they were named that, playing with guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend and bassist John Entwhistle in The Detours, as well as when The Who were briefly renamed The High Numbers (after enlisting their spirited drummer Keith Moon) to court the growing “Mod” movement of the mid-1960s.

Daltrey has also kept a simultaneous solo career going since the early 1970s. His early solo projects were used to showcase songwriters such as Leo Sayers and non-Who sounds, while more recently he has done some Who-themed solo projects and tours. His most recent solo album, “The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Orchestral,” was a live recording of a tour in which Daltrey sang songs from the band’s most famous rock opera. That tour visited the classical concert venue Tanglewood in Massachusetts.

Daltrey does not appear to have played a Connecticut casino solo since a series of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp” shows at Foxwoods in 2014. He also played Foxwoods that same year on a double bill with Joan Jett.

The Who last played Mohegan Sun in 2017. The band’s most…

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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Kinesiology was the fastest winner in the six $20,000 harness racing divisions of the first prelim of the Bobby Weiss Series on a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, while Hall Of Fame driver David Miller accounted for three divisions of the initial round for three-year-old trotting fillies.

Kinesiology is all alone in winning a Weiss Series division Tuesday at Pocono (Curtis Salonick Photo)

The Walner filly Kinesiology had all her muscles moving in the correct fashion as she stopped the timer in 1:55 to remain undefeated after two 2024 starts after getting blanked as a freshman. Michael Burke conditions the improved filly for Burke Racing Stable LLC, Beasty LLC, Lawrence Karr, and J&T Silva-Purnel & Libby.

KINESIOLOGY REPLAY

Miller brought two Tactical Landing misses to lifetime bests: Tactical Lori (1:55.2) for trainer Nifty Norman and owners Melvin Hartman and Enzed Racing Stable Inc. in her second consecutive visit to Victory Lane, and Mantacular (1:56), successful in her seasonal bow for trainer Daniel Renaud and Glengate Farms. The leading moneywinner among active drivers added a third Weiss win with the Walner miss Elista Hanover, whose 1:55.3 matched her previous best win clocking from a qualifier, for trainer Annie Stoebe, co-owner with R. Lynn and Philomena Curry.

TACTICAL LORI REPLAY

Braxten Boyd, who drove a winner in each series competition en route to four triumphs on the day, guided the Father Patrick miss Happy Chopper to a new mark of 1:56.1 in her first race of the year for trainer Mark Harder, co-owner with Dean Lockhart and Denna Rachel Frost.

Sire Walner picked up a second Weiss credit with Tove Palema for driver Andy Miller and trainer/wife Julie, who…

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by Best Classic Bands Staff

Tony Orlando and Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent), Mohegan Sun Arena, March 22, 2024

Tony Orlando, the singer who scored five top 10 hits in the 1970s, including the chart-toppers “Knock Three Times,” “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You),” has completed his farewell tour, with a final performance at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on March 22. Orlando turned 80 on April 3, 2024.

At the final show, Orlando was joined on stage by the singers billed as Dawn for many of his big singles. “I’m a cry baby,” he said as he regained his composure, “But these two women lifted me up to my dream come true. Without Telma Hopkins, without Joyce Vincent, there’d be no me.”

Watch them perform several songs, including “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” and “Candida”

Orlando will continue hosting his radio program Saturday Nights with Tony Orlando on 77 WABC Music Radio, which airs in New York, as well as reaching New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and streams live. He will continue engaging in a multitude of ongoing projects, including a new film and multimedia company, Tony Orlando Productions, according to an announcement from his publicist.

Orlando, born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, in New York City, is a Grammy-nominated artist with 15 Top 40 hits, two platinum albums, three gold albums and millions of copies sold. He started out as a member of a doo-wop group called the Five Gents at age 15, then wrote songs for entrepreneur Don Kirshner…

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