Legendary artists Kool & the Gang and The Commodorescome to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Friday, Oct. 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Saturday, June 4, at 10 a.m. Fans will have access to presale tickets beginning Friday, June 3, at 10 a.m. through Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
Kool & the Gang has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and influenced the music of three generations. Thanks to songs like “Celebration,” “Cherish,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Summer Madness” and “Open Sesame,” the band has earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums. Kool & the Gang has performed continuously for the past 43 years, longer than any R&B group in history. The group’s bulletproof funk and jazzy arrangements have also made it the most sampled band of all time.
Kool & the Gang was recently honored with a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement award. In October 2015, in the town sung about in one of the band’s earliest hits, “Hollywood Swinging,” Kool & the Gang was honored to take its place as American musical icons with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the spring of 2016, Kool & the Gang received a nod from the group’s home state when it was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In the band’s hometown of Jersey City, it received a touching tribute when a street the group grew up on was renamed to Kool & the Gang Way in its honor.
One of the greatest Motown and R&B/Funk artists of all time, The Commodores’ Walter “Clyde” Orange, James Dean “JD” Nicholas and William “WAK” King have influenced artists young and old and in all genres with their classic songs, including “Brick House,” “Three Times A Lady,” “Easy”, “Sail On” and “Nightshift.” Grammy Award winners and Vocal Group Hall of Fame inductees with more than 75 million albums sold, seven No. 1 singles, five No. 1 albums and 20 Top 10 singles, The Commodores are bigger than ever as they continue to blaze trails all over the world.
Tickets cost $90, $70 and $50.* All seats are reserved and available at all Ticketmaster outlets online at www.myhrl.com, www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000. Doors open one hour prior to show start time. *Additional fees may apply.