Fleetwood Mac at MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, May 30
5/30/2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FLEETWOOD MAC
MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA
SATURDAY, MAY 30
Tickets On Sale Monday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m.
LAS VEGAS – The legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac has added 29 shows to its upcoming Greatest Hits “Unleashed” tour in April and May. The added tour dates come on the heels of the first leg of dates announced in December, which have nearly sold out. The “Unleashed” tour will make a stop in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, May 30. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
Tickets priced at $165, $85 and $55, not including applicable service charges and taxes, go on sale Monday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith’s Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets also are available for purchase at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
The “Unleashed” tour, beginning on March 1 in Pittsburgh, will travel cross-country featuring 44 shows in major markets. The tour will include all of the bands’ greatest hits from the course of its extraordinary career. Fleetwood Mac, the multi-Grammy winning, multi-platinum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees is back on the road for the first time in five years following several successful solo projects.
“We love our band and think the title of the tour “Unleashed” perfectly describes how we all feel when we get on stage together, especially in 2009. We’re so happy to get back out on the road, perform everyone’s favorite songs and see our fans,” said the band.
In other Fleetwood Mac news, the iconographic Rumours album (certified Diamond® signifying sales of more than 10 million units by the RIAA) is scheduled to be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD boxed set on Reprise Records. The boxed set will include several songs from the Rumours album, in their original demo form, along with unreleased tracks recorded during that time period and never-before-seen DVD footage of the band from that era.
The MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to concerts, championship boxing and premier sporting and special events. The Arena offers comfortable seating for as many as 16,800 with excellent sightlines and state-of-the-art acoustics, lighting and sound. Prominent events to date have included world championship fights between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson as well as Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather and George Foreman vs. Michael Moorer; and concerts by The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, U2, ‘N Sync, Sting, George Strait, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Jimmy Buffett and the Barbra Streisand Millennium Concert. The MGM Grand Garden Arena also is home to the annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA), Frozen Fury NHL pre-season game and the U.S. Open of Motocross.
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Contacts:
Liz Rosenberg, liz.rosenberg@wbr.com
Fleetwood Mac
Sarita Ray, saritaray@livenation.com
Live Nation
Stephanie Heller,
(702) 650-7510
MGM MIRAGE Public Relations
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