Multi-platinum
rockers Foreigner are returning to Las Vegas with a special performance at the
Sunset Amphitheater inside Sunset Station on Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m. During
the performance, students from the Las Vegas Academy’s renowned choir program
will join the band on-stage to perform the classic hit “I Want to Know What
Love Is.”
Las
Vegas Academy students will also sell Foreigner CD/DVD sets with proceeds going
towards The Grammy Foundation, which provides funds for high school music
programs to help keep music education alive. In addition, the band will make a
donation to the school’s choir program.
Tickets
are $24.95, $37.95, $49.95, $59.95 and $74.95 plus tax and applicable fees and
go on sale Friday, Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and guests under 21
must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets can be purchased at any Station
Casinos Reward Center and The Fiestas, by logging onto www.sclv.com/concerts or
through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For complete
tour details, visit www.foreigneronline.com.
With
more than 70 million albums sold worldwide and six albums that have achieved
platinum certification or higher, Foreigner is one of the most successful rock
bands of all time. The band’s eponymous debut album was released in 1977 and
featured the singles, “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold as Ice” and “Long,
Long Way From Home.” The album sold more than four million copies in the United
States and established Foreigner as one of the world’s top rock bands.
The
band continued their success with the album Double Vision, which features the
single “Hot Blooded” and achieved 7 x platinum certification. Following the
release of their fourth studio album, 4 which peaked at number one on the
Billboard 200 chart, the band released Agent Provocateur. In addition to
selling more than three million records, the album featured the band’s most
successful single to date, “I Want to Know What Love Is,” which peaked at
number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band’s 2009 album, Can’t Slow
Down, peaked at 29 on the Billboard 200. The band’s most recent album, the
three-disc Feels Like the First Time, was released in 2011.
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