What an era! Sir Rod Stewart took to the stage at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the 200th time in total on Wednesday. For this performance and the 199 before it, the singer was honoured during the show by the regional president of Caesars, Sean McBurney, with a certificate and a lot of warm words.
Live music events are nothing unusual in the Texan capital Austin, as the US metropolis of just under one million inhabitants has always been one of the hotspots for live music events, especially when it comes to country, blues and rock.
How lucky a singer must be to be able to easily draw on his vast repertoire of songs to thrill his audience two nights in a row. Sir Rod Stewart could probably be on stage non-stop for a whole week and still not have played all the songs from his long list of hits spanning six decades. At Hard Rock Live in Florida, the Brit therefore limited himself to his great classics at both gigs last weekend. And Sir Rod mixed up the setlists a little on both evenings.
Shortly before the show began at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida, the sound of countless bagpipes filled the hall where 7,000 visitors were about to spend an atmospheric evening with superstar Rod Stewart at Hard Rock Live.
The Stewart concert year begins as the old one ended: full of energy, full of joy, with enthusiastic fans and, above all, a Sir Rod Stewart in top form.
Sir Rod Stewart has planned a whopping 80 concerts this year, the year in which he turned a slim 80 years old. He mastered the first of these last night with flying colours. Atlantic City experienced an evening that will not soon be forgotten.
