WHAT: Do you have big dreams of performing in an award – winning venue where acts like Luke Bryan, Barenaked Ladies and Pentatonix have taken the stage? Turn that dream into a rockin’ reality when Mohegan Sun and Hall Communications present Locals Live 2018 inside the Wolf Den! You could be chosen to perform live at Mohegan Sun for the grand prize of $5,000 cash!

WHEN/ WHERE: Every Wednesday from November 7th to December 12th (excluding November 21st) from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the Wolf Den. The finals will take place on Wednesday, December 12th where the top four bands will compete for the Grand Prize.

IN DETAIL: Mohegan Sun & Hall Communications are back hosting another exciting 5 – week contest, where 16 local bands and musicians, four per week, will compete live at the Wolf Den. The four bands/musicians that receive the most overall votes from the audience will compete in the finals on December 12th in front of expert judges to vie for the $5,000 grand prize, second place receives $1,000. Come out and vote for your favorite!

Enjoy $3.00 Bud & Bud Light specials and text to vote for your favorite! The voting period for each act is open on the night of their performances from the hours of 8:00pm – 11:59pm. Voters can text in their vote up to a maximum of 5 times. The top four bands from each night with the highest votes will perform on December 12th.

Simply click here for rules and to submit your demo video!

To view the Wolf Den calendar, visit mohegansun.com/wolfden.
Deadline to Enter: Monday, September 17th

ABOUT MOHEGAN SUN: Owned by Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, Mohegan Sun is one of the largest, most spectacular entertainment, gaming, dining and shopping destinations in the United States.  Situated on 185 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is home to three unique casinos, 1,600 deluxe hotel rooms, 2 world-class spas, a golf course, over 90 shops, restaurants and bars as well as three award-winning entertainment venues including a 10,000-seat Arena. Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country. More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or visiting mohegansun.com. Connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @mohegansun, view us on YouTube and find us on Snapchat at username MoheganSun.

The Hidden Still be serving up lunch/early dinner but will be removing furniture at 6:30pm to make way for the festivities!
Our menu will be limited from 6:30-on so you can still grab some grub!

DJ TJ will be spinning your favorite tunes starting at 8PM

Can’t wait to see you all! Let’s get BASTED!!

Get decked out for the holidays and join us for a dockside night of fun, food, and festivities!

It’s the biggest bar night of the year! Gather with your friends and family before the big feast as Dave serenades you throughout the night!

All aboard the Santa Special for a one-of-a-kind, daytime holiday experience! Enjoy the spirit of the season as you relax with family and friends aboard festive railway cars adorned with vintage decorations. Make sure you’re camera-ready for that “special moment” when Santa and Mrs. Claus visit each child.

All aboard the Santa Special for a one-of-a-kind, daytime holiday experience! Enjoy the spirit of the season as you relax with family and friends aboard festive railway cars adorned with vintage decorations. Make sure you’re camera-ready for that “special moment” when Santa and Mrs. Claus visit each child.

In this hilarious valentine to show tunes and show people, a forgotten Jazz Age musical comes to life in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast album, a fizzy vintage show suddenly appears, exploding with song, dance and pure entertainment. Our quirky narrator fills the plot holes, with laugh-out-loud results. Packed with show-stopping numbers and larger-than-life characters, here’s a Tony Award-winning spoof that will have everyone falling in love with zany musical comedy! Sept 21 – Nov 25, Wed/Thurs 2 & 7:30, Fri 8pm, Sat 3 & 8, Sun 2

The Garcia Project’s performances are based on actual set lists performed by The Jerry Garcia Band. All of their shows are classic recreations of a Jerry Garcia Band set list from the 1976 to 1995. For anyone that never had a chance to experience the Jerry Garcia Band or for fans that want to relive a classic show, The Garcia Project delivers.

With precise arrangements and the proper instrumentation and feel for any and all given eras, The Garcia Project faithfully channels and projects the feelings, emotions and music that propelled the Jerry Garcia Band and the fans through many years of musical bliss.

“The Garcia Project’s attention to detail on intonation and performance structure does set them apart as an authority on Jerry Garcia.” – NYSMUSIC

“it was hard to tell that it wasn’t Jerry signing on “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”” – NYSMUSIC

Mooseltoe is the charming story about a Moose who wants to fly with Santa’s reindeer. Mooseltoe sets out to find the great wise Mooseking for advice, and along the way meets a variety of characters, all of whom teach Mooseltoe valuable life lessons. Meanwhile, there is trouble at the North Pole. Will Mooseltoe be able to save Christmas?

In this hilarious valentine to show tunes and show people, a forgotten Jazz Age musical comes to life in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast album, a fizzy vintage show suddenly appears, exploding with song, dance and pure entertainment. Our quirky narrator fills the plot holes, with laugh-out-loud results. Packed with show-stopping numbers and larger-than-life characters, here’s a Tony Award-winning spoof that will have everyone falling in love with zany musical comedy! Sept 21 – Nov 25, Wed/Thurs 2 & 7:30, Fri 8pm, Sat 3 & 8, Sun 2

Enjoy the Blues Every Saturday Evening
Whether you are an invested blues aficionado, or just a blues browser,
a trip here is a no-risk venture into some reliably good music.
Drink and Food Specials every Saturday Night!
Join us for weekely Blues by the fire place.
November 17th – Mark and Mike
November 21st – Basically Blues Trio
December 1st – Rich Badowski
December 8th – Robert Hill

JOIN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ON A TRIP BACK IN TIME TO VICTORIAN ENGLAND
TO BEGIN YOUR HOLIDAY SEASON

Charles Dickens wrote his holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” in London in 1843 in the midst of England’s industrial revolution. It was originally written to be published as a pamphlet to inspire social reform. At the time, London was teeming with problems: in only 80 years its population quadrupled from 1 million to 4.5 million; crime was rampant-the police estimated that 20,000 children were being trained in thievery; the city’s water supply was polluted; housing was sparse and cramped with entire families living in one small room; and education for children was at an all-time low.

It is into this world that Valley Shakespeare Festival will take its audiences. Presented without elaborate period costuming and staging, VSF’s production puts the emphasis on the true meaning of the story.

Tom Simonetti, the company’s Executive and Artistic Director (and Bob Cratchit), explains his reasoning this way:

“The story is powerful enough on its own not to need all kinds of embellishment. I love to see the children’s and families’ reactions to Jacob Marley’s chains, Tiny Tim, and Scrooge’s last speech. It’s a story that needs to be told because it reminds us of the kind of people we should be all year long. It’s exactly what we need.”

Audience members will join Ebenezer Scrooge on his transformational journey through his own personal darkness of bitterness and disillusion on that fateful Christmas Eve and emerge with him on that brilliant Christmas morning with renewed faith in God and humanity.

Mr. Jeremy Funke, who has portrayed Scrooge in the company’s productions from the very beginning, explains why the experience is new for him each year:

“… for myself personally, a sense of not knowing what comes next – I think Scrooge approaches his first Christmas with such a childlike energy precisely because he doesn’t know what comes next, and there’s a genuine excitement that comes along with that.”

Valley Shakespeare Festival will present its staged dramatic reading of “A Christmas Carol” at Seymour’s Strand Theater, 165 Main Street, on Saturday, November 24th at 7:00pm. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Anyone wishing to come and experience this memorable moment in history may purchase tickets by calling Valley Shakespeare Festival at 203-513-9446 or by visiting www.vsfestival.org.

Tickets for the event are $10 per person in advance, $15 at the door. Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.

Valley Shakespeare Festival is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit theater company serving the communities of the lower Naugatuck Valley.

In this hilarious valentine to show tunes and show people, a forgotten Jazz Age musical comes to life in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast album, a fizzy vintage show suddenly appears, exploding with song, dance and pure entertainment. Our quirky narrator fills the plot holes, with laugh-out-loud results. Packed with show-stopping numbers and larger-than-life characters, here’s a Tony Award-winning spoof that will have everyone falling in love with zany musical comedy! Sept 21 – Nov 25, Wed/Thurs 2 & 7:30, Fri 8pm, Sat 3 & 8, Sun 2

In this hilarious valentine to show tunes and show people, a forgotten Jazz Age musical comes to life in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast album, a fizzy vintage show suddenly appears, exploding with song, dance and pure entertainment. Our quirky narrator fills the plot holes, with laugh-out-loud results. Packed with show-stopping numbers and larger-than-life characters, here’s a Tony Award-winning spoof that will have everyone falling in love with zany musical comedy! Sept 21 – Nov 25, Wed/Thurs 2 & 7:30, Fri 8pm, Sat 3 & 8, Sun 2

Wind down the weekend every Sunday with an amazing selection Jazz duos, trios and quartets!
November 18th – The Lynn Knapp Quartet
November 25th – Larry Gareau Trio
December 2nd – Goza Latin Jazz
December 9th – Hot Cat Jazz

All aboard the Santa Special for a one-of-a-kind, daytime holiday experience! Enjoy the spirit of the season as you relax with family and friends aboard festive railway cars adorned with vintage decorations. Make sure you’re camera-ready for that “special moment” when Santa and Mrs. Claus visit each child.

Ventriloquist and comedian Terry Fator visits our city. “America’s Got Talent” winner captures the audience’s hearts and funny bones with The Voice of Entertainment program. With singing, comedy and amazing celebrity impressions of musical superstars such as Garth Brooks, Dean Martin, Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga and more.

Get Tickets: http://www.soundchronicle.com/tickets/Terry_Fator_Mashantucket_CT_2018-11-30_20-00

A two-time Emmy Award winner, Grammy Award winner, American Music Award winner, and multi-platinum recording artist, Paula Abdul has been entertaining her fans for years as a singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, television personality, actress, producer and entrepreneur.

This fall, Abdul will headline her first solo tour in over 25 years where she will hit over 26 cities in the US. As one of America’s pop music pioneers, this headlining tour will showcase Abdul’s legacy as one the most iconic music & dance acts of a generation.

In 2017, Abdul made her momentous return to touring with Live Nation’s The Total Package Tour where she hit over 40 cities in the US alongside Boyz II Men and New Kids on the Block. The arena tour sold over five hundred thousand tickets and grossed over forty million dollars.

Abdul was recently a judge on the Emmy award-winning dance competition show “So You Think You Can Dance.” After saying goodbye to “American Idol” in 2010 and serving as Executive Producer and creative partner for the CBS reality-competition series “Live To Dance,” Paula returned to network television in September 2011 with FOX’s highly anticipated “X·Factor.”

On the small screen as an actress Paula recently complete filming a guest role on ABC’s hit comedy series “Fresh Off the Boat.” In 2016 she also appeared on an episode of Fox’s comedy series “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.”