The Edge Pavilion will Host a Rockin’ Night of
Hit Songs by Lou Gramm, the Original Voice of
Foreigner, with ASIA Featuring John Payne
The Edge Pavilion, Laughlin’s premier live entertainment and special event venue located at Edgewater Casino Resort, will feature a memorable night of classic hits and arena rockin’ anthems that defined a rock ‘n’ roll generation when Lou Gramm, The Original Voice of Foreigner, with ASIA Featuring John Payne hits the stage on Saturday, May 18. Performing on stage together, former Foreigner lead singer Gramm and 80s supergroup ASIA Featuring John Payne will perform some of the greatest hit songs from both Foreigner and ASIA including “I Want To Know What Love Is,” “Urgent,” “Heat of the Moment,” “Only Time Will Tell” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
As the original voice of the iconic band Foreigner, Lou Gramm is behind some of the most iconic rock songs of the late 1970s and 1980s including the Top 10 hits “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Urgent,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” which spent 10 weeks at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” which was a worldwide #1 smash hit. Gramm, who co-wrote many of the band’s biggest hits with Mick Jones, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013. Audiences will also be treated to the hit songs of ASIA Featuring John Payne such as “Heat Of The Moment,” “Don’t Cry,” “Only Time Will Tell,” “The Smile Has Left Your Eyes,” “Go” and “Days Like These.”
Starting at $55, tickets for the show will go on sale to the public beginning at 10 a.m. PST on Friday, Feb. 23. True Rewards Players Club members will have exclusive access to purchase presale tickets starting at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday, Feb. 22 through 9 a.m. PST on Friday, Feb. 23. Tickets can be purchased at www.Edgewater-Casino.com.
The performance adds to the impressive 2024 lineup at The Edge Pavilion and Laughlin Event Center which includes:
- The Frontmen on Saturday, Feb. 24 at The Edge Pavilion
- Beatles vs Stones on Saturday, March 2 at The Edge Pavilion
- Thomas Rhett on Friday, March 8 at Laughlin Event Center
- The Long Run – Experience the Eagles on Saturday, March 16 at The Edge Pavilion
- Yachty By Nature on Saturday, March 23 at The Edge Pavilion
- The Original Banda El Limón on Saturday, April 20 at The Edge Pavilion
- Hunter Hayes on Saturday, May 4 at The Edge Pavilion
- Lou Gramm, The Original Voice of Foreigner, with ASIA Featuring John Payne on Saturday, May 18 at The Edge Pavilion
- Jeff Foxworthy on Saturday, June 15 at The Edge Pavilion
- Tracy Lawrence on Saturday, July 27 at The Edge Pavilion
- Little River Band on Saturday, Aug. 24 at The Edge Pavilion
- Jason Aldean on Saturday, Sept. 21 at Laughlin Event Center
Golden Entertainment’s Laughlin resort and casino properties will offer concert and room packages for fans. For more information about Aquarius Casino Resort, visit www.AquariusCasinoResort.com/Entertainment, and for information about Edgewater Casino Resort, visit www.Edgewater-Casino.com/Entertainment.
About Edgewater Casino Resort
Situated on the west bank of the Colorado River, Edgewater Casino Resort features a 40,000-square-foot state-of-the-art casino with a wide array of slot machines and table games, a William Hill Sports Book and a new 11,800-square-foot bingo room. Edgewater Casino Resort offers a variety of restaurants from fine dining to casual options, including: PT’s Express, Stockman’s Steakhouse and more. More information is available by calling (866) 352-3553 or (702) 298-2453 and on the website at www.Edgewater-Casino.com.
About Golden Entertainment, Inc.
Golden Entertainment owns and operates a diversified entertainment platform, consisting of a portfolio of gaming and hospitality assets that focus on casino, branded taverns, and distributed gaming operations. Golden Entertainment operates over 15,800 slots, over 100 table games, and over 6,000 hotel rooms. Golden Entertainment owns eight casinos in Southern Nevada and 65 gaming taverns in Nevada. Through its distributed gaming operations in Nevada and Montana, Golden Entertainment operates video gaming devices at nearly 1,000 locations. For more information, visit www.goldenent.com.
About Lou Gramm
As the original voice of Foreigner, Lou Gramm became one of the most successful rock vocalists of the late 1970s and 1980s. Circus magazine in 1978 upon release of “Hot Blooded” commented that Lou Gramm had a voice that Robert Plant might envy. His unique vocals have made Foreigner one of Billboard’s Top 100 Artists of All Time in hit songs history.
Gramm was the lead vocalist on all of Foreigner’s hit songs, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold as Ice,” “Long, Long Way from Home,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Blue Morning, Blue Day,” “Head Games,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Break It Up” and “Say You Will.” He co-wrote most of the songs for the band, which achieved two of its biggest hits with the ballads “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” which spent ten weeks at #2 on the 1981-82 American Hot 100, and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” which was a #1 hit internationally (US & UK) in 1985. Their first eight singles cracked the Billboard Top 20, (four went Top 10) making them the first group since The Beatles to achieve this in 1980.
About ASIA Featuring John Payne
John Payne became the frontman of the supergroup ASIA in 1992 at the invitation of keyboardist Geoff Downes, replacing vocalist/bassist John Wetton. ASIA extensively toured the world for the next 14 years performing new classics and old favorites. With John Payne fronting the band, ASIA released 8 stunning studio albums and several live recordings. In 2006, Geoff Downes left the band to reform the 1982 lineup for their 25th anniversary. On the 9th of May 2006, John Payne, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Carl Palmer and Steve Howe contractually agreed that John Payne would continue his 14 year legacy with ASIA as “ASIA Featuring John Payne.” ASIA Featuring John Payne has been touring in North America since 2008, with some of their greatest hits including “Heat of The Moment,” “Don’t Cry,” “Only Time Will Tell,” “The Smile Has Left Your Eyes,” “Go” and “Days Like These.”