Las Vegas Strip casino signs legendary rock star for residency

Las Vegas casinos on and off the Strip feature several long-running legacy music residencies that fans have patronized for many years.

Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton began performing in Las Vegas in 1959, has lived in Sin City since the 1960s, and became a headliner  on the Strip for the first time at the Flamingo in 1963.

Newton has performed at several of Vegas' classic hotel-casinos over the years, including The Desert Inn, Sands, Frontier, the Las Vegas Hilton, Harrah's, and the MGM Grand, according to the legend's website, WayneNewton.com.

The 83-year-old legend opened his "Wayne: Up Close and Personal" residency at the Wayne Newton Theater in Bugsy's Cabaret at the Flamingo Las Vegas in January 2022 and is scheduled to perform through Dec. 31, 2025.

Legendary 1970s superstar singer Barry Manilow on Sept. 23, 2023, broke Elvis Presley's record of sold-out shows in the International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas just off the Strip, when he played his 637th sold-out show.

Manilow has continued performing and in December 2024 signed on for a lifetime residency at Westgate. He is performing through 2025 with his "A Very Barry Christmas" shows scheduled for six shows Dec. 4-6 and Dec. 11-13, 2025, according to the singer's representative.

Manilow: A Very Barry Christmas shows 2025:

• Dec. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13, 2025.

Manilow extended his lifetime residency again at the International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas with the addition of 54 new dates over 18 weekends in 2026.

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Legendary rock star Carlos Santana has headlined his long-running residency "An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live" House of Blues at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip since 2012, performing over 300 shows to sold-out audiences.

The "Evil Ways" rock star is in the middle of another residency extension at House of Blues and is set to perform Sept. 25, 27, 28, and Nov. 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, and 16, 2025.

Santana adds to his House of Blues residency

And now Santana has extended his residency for its 15th year as he has added 16 more shows in Jan. 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, Feb. 1, May 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, and 24, 2026.

Fan club, Citi Cardmember, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster presales are underway and end Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. Pacific time.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. Pacific.

Santana residency extension:

• Jan. 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31
• Feb. 1
• May 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23, and 24

Santana, however, needed to cancel the first eight shows of his 16-show 2025 residency at the House of Blues, which was set to begin Jan. 22, due to frontman Santana breaking a finger in an accidental fall at his vacation home in Hawaii.

The eight shows were not rescheduled and all tickets were automatically refunded.

Santana broke his finger, canceled shows

"I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and broke his little finger on his left hand," spokesman Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management, said in a statement in January.

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"He had to have pins inserted in the finger. Unfortunately, he won't be able to play guitar for approximately six weeks. Doctors do say he will recuperate fully," the band's manager Vrionis said.

Santana did come back and performed the eight previously scheduled shows on the residency from May 14-25, 2025.

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