New Edition Announces Las Vegas Residency

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Legendary R&B group, New Version, is ready to be the following large factor on stage in Sin Metropolis.

The sextet introduced Monday (Nov. 6), that New Version: Las Vegas will kick off February 28 for at the very least six reveals. “We simply caught lightning in a bottle,” mentioned Ronnie DeVoe, in keeping with USA Today. All six members will carry out on the Wynn Las Vegas Encore Theater, the place acts like Diana Ross, Lionel Richie and extra have taken the stage.

The announcement got here days after the group carried out a tribute to the Spinners on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony in New York Metropolis.

“We’re seeking to contact that stage and proceed on with the legacy,” DeVoe added. 

“That is going to be extra theatrical than our Legacy and Tradition excursions,” Bobby Brown mentioned. “This will probably be much more intimate. We wished it to be up, shut and private for our followers.”

The theater sits almost 1,500 followers, who will take pleasure in their many basic hits. 

Vegas has been a vacation spot for R&B audiences with Usher quickly to wrap up his profitable residency earlier than performing at the Super Bowl. 

The group says that now is a good time for them to have their residency. “We’ve one another, we have now our well being, we have now our households. Everyone’s nonetheless right here,” Ricky Bell mentioned. 

New Version additionally says that the residency is an efficient time for brand spanking new music. “It is sensible,” DeVoe mentioned. “I feel it’ll be a good time to get within the studio and put our vocals on one thing new and recent, so we are able to ship that to our followers in anticipation of their residency.”

The group hasn’t launched new music since One Love almost 20 years in the past. 

“Our viewers received an opportunity to see progress, bond, brotherhood,” Bell mentioned of their current excursions. “Generally that’s greater than any report as a result of individuals come to search for separation. However I feel we’ll give them the glue.”