Tony Orlando to perform at Four Winds New Buffalo’s Silver Creek Event Center on Saturday, January 6

Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 3

NEW BUFFALO, Mich. – November 1, 2023 – The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’ Four Winds® Casinos are pleased to announce that Tony Orlando will perform at Four Winds New Buffalo’s Silver Creek® Event Center on Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 9 p.m. Eastern.  Ticket prices for the show start at $50, plus applicable fees, and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster beginning on Friday, November 3 at 11 a.m. Eastern.  Hotel rooms are available on the night of the concert and can be purchased with event tickets.

Tony Orlando is one of America’s most endearing and beloved iconic entertainers.  2023 finds Tony bringing his exhilarating energy, warmth, and humor to a tour of live concert shows across the nation as he celebrates over six decades in the entertainment business.  He is recognized by his peers and the public – as simply the best.  Five #1 hit records: “Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak Tree,” “Knock Three Times,” “Candida,” “My Sweet Gypsy Rose” and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You).”  Grammy Nominee Tony Orlando has sold millions of records, has two Platinum albums and three Gold albums and 15 Top 40 Hits.  “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” was the #1 Billboard top song of 1973 and became Orlando’s theme song and grew into an American anthem of hope, homecoming, and renewal.  

Orlando kicks off his sixty years in music and entertainment with a series of new projects, including the release of “Timeless: The Big Hits” on (via Time Life), that features re-recorded versions of his million-selling songs as well as a bonus track, “America Is My Hometown.”  Tony debuted the new track on 77 WABC Music Radio during his weekly radio program, “Saturday Nights with Tony Orlando”, which airs from 10pm to midnight and streams worldwide on 77 WABC, which was also the first station to play Orlando’s debut single, “Halfway to Paradise” when in his teens Tony was the first vocal pop artist to sign with Epic Records and hit the national music charts in 1961.

The enormously popular Tony Orlando and Dawn television variety show ran for four seasons, from 1973 to 1977, on CBS.  The show catapulted Tony Orlando and Dawn from popular recording artists into major stars. Tony Orlando and Dawn was the first multi-racial singing group and Tony the first and only Latin American to host a network variety television series.  Tony Orlando and Dawn rank among the Top 100 Billboard Magazine artists of All-Time.

Tony is a recipient of three American Music Awards and two People’s Choice Awards for Best Male Entertainer.  He was awarded the Casino Entertainer of the Year Award, recipient of the “Best All Around Entertainer” Las Vegas which he has won a total of five times, and previously four times in Atlantic City. 

For outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry in 1990 Tony was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  The American Eagle Lifetime Achievement Award for Latin performers; The Ellis Island Medal of Honor one of the nation’s most prestigious awards.  And this year, Tony is honored to be Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

2016 found Tony collecting a dizzying number of top honors.  These included the Casino Entertainer of the Year Award, recipient of the “Best All Around Entertainer” Las Vegas which he has won a total of five times, and previously four times in Atlantic City; The Bob Hope Award for excellence in entertainment from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society honoring his efforts on behalf of our nation’s veterans; The American Eagle Lifetime Achievement Award for Latin performers; The Ellis Island Medal of Honor one of the nation’s most prestigious awards. And this year’s East Coast Music Hall of Fame’s Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Tony has performed for our armed services around the globe and raised millions of dollars for veteran organizations.  In 1993, he began his free Veterans Day Homecoming Celebration at his Yellow Ribbon Music Theatre in Branson, Missouri for 20 years.  He is credited for helping bring some 175,000 veterans every year during the week of November 11^th. 

His tireless work on behalf of our veterans led to his being named Honorary Chairman at the 40th Anniversary at the NAM-POW’s Homecoming Celebration at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in 2014.   He serves on the Board of Directors for the Eisenhower Foundation as well as Tribute to Valor Foundation, an organization that inspires, impacts and influences young people.  Tony also hosts the Congressional Medal of Honor dinner every year in Dallas to honor our Medal of Honor recipients.  He has also served as the Master of Ceremonies at the Secretary of Defense Freedom Awards at the Pentagon.

2023 is the 50^th Anniversary of ‘Tie A Yellow Ribbon’ and the celebration of the NAM-POW Homecoming.  Tony has been a part of their annual homecoming reunion for the past 50 years and has been invited to perform that song again, at this year‘s 50^th Reunion since it welcomed the NAM-POWs home at the Cotton Bowl with Bob Hope in 1973.  He is the recipient of The Bob Hope Award for excellence in entertainment from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society honoring his efforts on behalf of our nation’s veterans.

Tony is still one of the most popular live concerts artists, and like a painter, Tony is an artist who steps onto a stage as if it were a blank canvas.  Each show he weaves colorful emotions set to music touching the deepest part of a person’s heart.  Of course, it’s the music that has been an indelible bond between Tony and generations of Americans.  A 2016 review says it best, “The truth is: Tony Orlando is more than a singer.  He has the ability to reach an audience, touch us inside, and connect with us on a higher level with his voice, style, and values.”

More information on Tony Orlando can be found at https://tonyorlando.com/Coming_Soon!/.            

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About The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi’s sovereignty was reaffirmed under legislation signed into law by President Clinton in September of 1994.  The Pokagon Band is dedicated to providing community development initiatives such as housing, education, family services, medical care, and cultural preservation for its more than 6,000 citizens.  The Pokagon Band’s ten-county service area includes four counties in Southwestern Michigan and six in Northern Indiana.  Its main administrative offices are located in Dowagiac, Mich., with a satellite office in South Bend, Ind.  In 2007, it opened Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Mich., followed by Four Winds Hartford in 2011, Four Winds Dowagiac in 2013 and Four Winds South Bend in January 2018.  The Pokagon Band operates a variety of non-gaming businesses through its investment enterprises, Mno-Bmadsen and the Pokagon Development Authority.  More information is available at www.pokagonband-nsn.gov, www.fourwindscasino.com and www.mno-bmadsen.com.   

About Four Winds New Buffalo’s Silver Creek Event Center
Four Winds New Buffalo’s Silver Creek Event Center is a modern, multi-use facility that is located adjacent to the casino floor, at 11111 Wilson Road.  In addition to hosting concerts, the 17,000-sq. ft. event center is often reconfigured to host large meetings, special events, conferences, and banquets.  Details on concerts and other performances at Silver Creek Event Center are available at https://fourwindscasino.com/newbuffalo/entertainment/event-center.

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