CASINO ENTERTAINMENT

APACHE GOLD & SKY CASINOS Globe & Winkelman

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BLUEWATER CASINO Parker

49 Laughs Comedy Show June 24

BUCKY’S & YAVAPAI CASINOS Prescott

Live music at the Prescott Resort 6-9 p.m. Saturdays.

Frontier Days (World’s Oldest Rodeo) June 28 - July 4

CASINO ARIZONA Scottsdale

Showstoppers Live! June 2 & 3

Showstoppers Live! 2 June 9 & 10

Showstoppers Live! 3 June 16 & 17

Showstoppers Live! 4 June 23 & 24

Showstoppers Live! 5 June 30 & July1

CASINO DEL SOL Tucson

Franco Escamilla June 4

George Lopez June 17

Alabama June 29

CLIFF CASTLE CASINO HOTEL Camp Verde

Live music at The Dragonfly on Fridays & Saturdays

Comedy at the Castle June 15

COCOPAH CASINO Somerton

Karaoke Saturdays 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

DESERT DIAMOND CASINO Sahuarita

Ambrosia & Firefall June 3

Easton Corbin June 30

Grand Funk Railroad July 22

Gypsy Kings Featuring Nicola Reyes August 5

Little River Band August 12

HARRAH’S AK-CHIN CASINO Maricopa

Little Joe y La Familia with Sunny Ozuna June 17

Caifanes September 15

HON-DAH RESORT CASINO Pinetop

Live Music Tuesdays Through Saturdays

Monday Funday Comedy Shows

11th Annual White Mountain Bike Rally June 30 - July 1

Don Felder of The Eagles July 1

MAZATZAL CASINO Payson

Mirage (Fleetwood Mac) July 1

World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo August 17 - 19

Josh Turner September 2

QUECHAN CASINO RESORT Winterhaven

Freestyle Old School Jam June 9

Ja Rule & Ashanti August 17

TALKING STICK RESORT Scottsdale

Steve Trevino June 16

The Happy Together Tour July 14

Little River Band July 15

TWIN ARROWS CASINO Flagstaff

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WE-KO-PA CASINO RESORT Fountain Hills

Live Music In Ember Steakhouse

Live Music In WKP Sports & Entertainment

WILD HORSE PASS RESORT & CASINO Chandler

Forever Love June 10

The Home Edit Summer Of Fun Tour July 11

George Thorogood & The Destroyers July 23

Prescott Frontier Days Near Bucky’s Casino June 28—July 4

There is no better way to spend a summer evening than at the World’s Oldest Rodeo. Since 1888, Prescott Frontier Days Inc. has presented the annual World’s Oldest Rodeo at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds. This year, the rodeo will take place on Wednesday, June 28 through Tuesday, July 4. Join them to see your favorite events, including steer wrestling, bareback riding, tie-down roping, women’s breakaway roping, saddle bronc riding, team roping, women’s barrel racing, bull riding and a whole lot more great entertainment!

July 4, 1888, became the birthday of the professional rodeo when a group of Prescott, Arizona, merchants and professional businessmen organized the first formalized “cowboy tournament” and offered cash prizes. “Cowboy Contests” continued and were planned, promoted and carried out by a committee of local merchants. From then on, rodeo has grown into a multimillion dollar enterprise with more than 700 professional rodeos in 50 states.

Prescott Frontier Days, Inc., is an organization of people of all ages from the Prescott area. They give their time and talents, as volunteers, to put on a number of events each year. There are currently over 200 active members and during the peak period, around the 4th of July, that number swells with an additional 800 volunteers, who typically stage a Golf Tournament, the Prescott Frontier Days, Inc. Rodeo Parade, an Old Timers Gathering, and of course, the 8 performances of the “World’s Oldest Rodeo.”

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Don Felder

Hon-Dah’s Festival Grounds July 1

Don Felder is set to take the stage at Hon-Dah’s festival grounds at 8 p.m. (gates open at 7 p.m.) on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Tickets can be purchased at the gift shop. Or you can call 1-928-369-7577 for more information.

Don Felder is renowned as the former lead guitarist of The Eagles, one of the most popular and influential rock groups of our time. “Fingers,” as Felder is known, is a true American rock and roll guitar hero and one of the most innovative riff-generating songwriters of the modern rock era.

The “Fingers” nickname is well-warranted, as anyone who has ever watched the man’s hands blaze across whatever guitar fretboard can readily attest whether it be acoustic or electric, single-neck or double-neck. In fact, the inherent prowess of those dexterous digits helped Felder navigate the burgeoning rock scene in his native Gainesville, Florida, while he was growing up there in the 1960s. That formative time included a stint teaching guitar to a young sandyhaired Southern gentleman by the name of Tom Petty. “Who knew he would become such a rock music icon?” Felder muses. “I was so proud to see Tom become as popular and influential as he did.”

Spending more and more time on the road as the front man of his own tight-knit solo band made Felder realize he needed to put in the time to hone his own distinctive voice into a finely tuned instrument. “That’s just how I work,” says Felder. “A lead vocal has to fit the song it has to fit the timbre and texture of the song. Otherwise, you’re a onenote samba.” $

By Sami Becker