The entertainment across the venues of Wynn Las Vegas scorches in July—this includes Nas performing with the Las Vegas Philharmonic in the Encore Theater (July 09-19); as well as the Las Vegas stops at Allegiant Stadium of The Weeknd’s After Hours ‘til Dawn 2025 Stadium Tour (July 04-05) and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour (July 25-26), which can be experienced in the comfort of the Wynn Field Club.
NAS ILLMATIC: LIVE with the Las Vegas Philharmonic
Encore Theater
July 09, 11, 12, 18, 19 | 8 PM
2024 marked the 30th anniversary of Nas’s debut album, Illmatic (Columbia Records, 1994)—an album so universally lauded that in 2021, on the basis of being found “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry—and Nas celebrated by going on an anniversary tour highlighted by a three-night residency in the Encore Theater during which he performed Illmatic in its entirety, accompanied by the Las Vegas Philharmonic; followed by a second set in which he performed a curation of hits and favorites from his seventeen studio albums.
Now, GRAMMY-winning multiplatinum recording artist/producer Nas (Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones) is bringing the show back (along with the LV Phil!) to the Encore Theater for five nights in July (09, 11, 12, 18, 19); performing not just the whole Illmatic album in his first set, but also a second set that will in all likelihood include such deft displays of Nas’s signature conversational narrative lyricism as “The Message” and “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” from It Was Written (Columbia Records, 1996), “Nas Is Like” from I Am (Columbia Records, 1999), “Got Ur Self a Gun” and “One Mic” from Stillmatic (Columbia Records, 2001), “Made You Look” from God’s Sun (Columbia Records, 2002), and “Cherry Wine” from Life Is Good(Def Jam, 2012).
PLAYLIST:
“It Ain’t Hard to Tell” – Illmatic (1994)
“If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” – It Was Written (1996)
“One Mic” – Stillmatic (2001)
THE WEEKND: After Hours Til Dawn 2025 Stadium Tour
Allegiant Stadium
July 04, 05 | 7 PM
With five standing entries in the Guinness World Records—including The First Artist to Reach 100 Million Monthly Users on Spotify (2023)—not to mention 4 GRAMMY Awards, 22 BillboardMusic Awards, and a half-dozen American Music Awards, it should come as no great surprise that The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn 2025 Stadium Tour (which launched in July 2022 as The After Hours Tour and stopped at Allegiant Stadium in August 2022) is returning to Allegiant Stadium.
Originally intended to support his fourth studio album, After Hours (Republic Records, 2020), the tour was extended to also support his fifth and sixth studio albums, Dawn FM (Republic Records, 2022) and Hurry Up Tomorrow (Republic Records, 2025) and will feature Mike Deanand Playboi Carti as opening acts on this second North American leg.
The Weeknd has announced that Hurry Up Tomorrow will most likely be his “final hurrah” recording or performing under his intentionally misspelled moniker, retiring it with the intention of replacing it with either his birthname (Abel Tesfaye) or a new, as-yet-adopted pseudonym.
PLAYLIST:
“Wicked Games” – Trilogy (2012)
“Starboy” – Starboy (2016)
“Sacrifice” – Dawn FM (2022)
BEYONCÉ: Cowboy Carter Tour
Allegiant Stadium
July 25, 26 | 7 PM
Following the success of her seventh studio album, Act I: Renaissance (Columbia Records, 2022), a tailfeather-shaking tribute to the Black and queer pioneers of dance music and House music; Beyoncé set out on her record-setting Renaissance World Tour—the highest-grossing tour of all time by a Black artist, and the highest-grossing single-year concert tour—which came to Allegiant Stadium on August 26 and 27, 2023.
Never one to rest on her abundant laurels—in case you’ve been living under a rock (or without wi-fi), she’s the most-honored and most-nominated artist of all time at the GRAMMY Awards (35 wins and 99 nominations), she’s tied (with Taylor Swift) as the most-honored video music artist ever with 30 MTV Video Music Awards; she’s the most-awarded artist of the Soul Train Awards (25 wins) and of the NAACP Image Awards (32 wins); and she’s even won a Peabody Award for her film Lemonade in 2017—Beyoncé followed the worldwide success of Act I: Renaissance with Act II: Cowboy Carter (Columbia Records, 2024), her knowing nod to Americana and the role of Black artists in the musical and cultural history of America.
Cowboy Carter didn’t just educate listeners about country music, it raised the profile of everything affiliated with it, from listenership of country radio formats to the popularity of Western-wear; and thanks to its eleven nominations, Cowboy Carter became the third most nominated album in GRAMMY history (behind only Michael Jackson’s Thriller with 13, and Quincy Jones’s The Dude with 12), winning Album of the Year as well as Best Country Album (making Queen Bey the first Black artist to win in this category).
The Cowboy Carter Tour will conclude with a pair of performances at Allegiant Stadium on July 25 and 26.
PLAYLIST:
“Alien Superstar” – Renaissance (2022)
“Jolene” – Cowboy Carter (2024)
“Texas Hold ‘Em” – Cowboy Carter (2024)