VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Bob Marley Hope Road Sets Opening, Will Foreigner Reunite With Gramm in Vegas?

Posted on: April 22, 2025, 01:49h. 

Last updated on: April 29, 2025, 02:38h.

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  • Hope Road leads Bob Marley fans  to Mandalay Bay
  • Foreigner checks into the Venetian
  • Pitbull returns to the Fontainebleau

Bob Marley Hope Road will open June 25 at Mandalay Bay. The experience will be a self-guided interactive museum celebrating the life of the late reggae legend by day, including a recreation of the Marley’s Trench Town home, then a live performance by night — every 30 minutes from 5-10 p.m.

An artist rendering of “Bob Marley Hope Road,” the museum and show opening at Mandalay Bay this summer. (Image: Bob Marley Hope Road)

The attraction will open in the space formerly occupied by the resort’s Bayside Buffet, which closed during the pandemic shutdown and never reopened. (Buffets, once common on the Strip, are now a rarity.)

Tickets, run $49-$124 (without fees), are on sale now at hoperoad.com/tickets/#show.

I Want to Know Who Their Singer Is

Lou Gramm and an entirely different Foreigner pose in 1979. (Image: Atlantic Records)

“Foreigner: The Hits Orchestral” will check into The Venetian March 6-14, 2026. Tickets go on sale this Friday, nearly a year in advance.

But waiting is an experience familiar to fans of the band, which didn’t get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until last October, though they had been eligible for 22 years before that.

The 20-member symphonic production will celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary.

Its lineup is a question mark, however.  Kelly Hansen, who took over for departed original singer Lou Gramm 20 years ago, is a safe bet.

However, Gramm will reunite with the band for guest appearances on a Latin American tour starting April 28, leading to speculation that he could also be part of its Vegas plans.

Foreigner’s main singer for the Latin American leg will be Luis Maldonado. And for a 13-show swing through Canada this fall, local singer Geordie Brown will step in. (Hansen said in March he had to limit his international gigs due to “residency problems,” though he’s, ironically, not a foreigner, having been born in California.)

Currently, Foreigner contains no original members. (Though lead guitarist Mick Jones remains nominally part of the band, he does not perform regularly due to health issues.)

Tickets for the Venetian dates go on sale at 10 a.m. PT Friday, April 25, at Ticketmaster.com and VenetianLasVegas.com.

Fontaine ’Bull

Pitbull will return to the Fontainebleau on September 12-13 and November 21-22. He last performed at the BleauLive Theater on May 9-10. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PT Friday, April 25 here.