Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Feasts & Festive Entertainment In Las Vegas

Select MGM Resorts International properties will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a variety of activities and entertainment that are sure to paint The Strip green. Events featuring live music, drink specials and exciting nightlife will offer a multitude of options for guests to shake their shamrocks all day and through the night.

MANDALAY BAY
Spend St. Patrick's Day rocking to the beat of live Irish bands and enjoying food and beverage specials at Mandalay Bay. The resort is staging a two-day celebration Thursday from noon - 5 p.m. with complimentary admission to a DJ set at Mandalay Bay Beach. Guests also can listen to the music and purchase a $39 all-you-can-drink pass which grants entry to the Moorea Beach Club Beer Garden. Guests must be 21 years of age or older to enter Moorea and the Beach.

If the Beach gets too hot, guests can wander into the casino where they can watch all of the NCAA tournament games throughout the day and enjoy live Irish music at either the Orchid Lounge or Mizuya Lounge. When guests get hungry along the way, they can grab a bite at Rick Moonen's rm seafood where the downstairs Café will offer Corn Beef & Slaw sandwiches along with a draught beer for only $10 and select beers for only $5.

The excitement continues Friday once again with the Moorea Beach Club Beer Garden as well as complimentary Irish bands at the Beach from noon - 5 p.m. The schedule includes performances by Darby O'Gill and The Little People, Vegas U2 and The Wild Celts, along with a DJ.

At 8 p.m., guests can catch the Celtic Punk band Flogging Molly in concert at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. With tickets starting at only $27.50, fans can enjoy the sensational blend of the band's traditional Celtic sounds, hard-edged punk and thoughtful lyrics. Finish the night with a final stop at Mizuya Lounge for one last session of Irish music before heading home.

Also on tap for St. Patrick's Day is the grand opening of Rí Rá Las Vegas in The Shoppes at Mandalay Bay. The new Irish pub will bring an authentic Irish atmosphere to The Strip along with an impressive line-up of live music and fare that defies pub standards. Soon to become The Strip's greatest headliner is an 8-foot-tall, 500-pound carved plaster statue of St. Patrick dating back to 1850.

Crafted in the warm pub style of 19th century Ireland, Rí Rá Las Vegas will feature authentic artifacts carefully restored in Wicklow, Ireland. Rí Rá Las Vegas will feature live entertainment seven nights a week in a music room constructed with artifacts dating back to 1890 from the Olympia Theater in Dublin, Ireland. Just like the pub itself, a majority of the entertainment will be direct from Ireland and include traditional Irish sessions and visiting bands. Traditional Irish fare with American influences will be served at all times of the day and into the night. Redefining pub food, Rí Rá Las Vegas will serve dishes such as a 12 day in-house brined Corned Beef Brisket, Shepherd's Pie made with minced lamb and Beef and Guinness Stew, to name a few.

For more information about St. Patrick's Day events at Mandalay Bay, please call (877) 632-7000.

THE MIRAGE
There is no need to eat them in a house or with a mouse, in a box or with a fox; RHUMBAR's St. Patrick's Day celebration has plenty of green eggs and ham burritos and mouthwatering Mojitos. RHUMBAR will celebrate this Irish holiday with a party to make patrons say 'hooray!'

The green beer will flow and Irish car bombs will be enjoyed with gusto. Party-goers will enjoy $8 burritos made of green eggs and ham and $5 16-ounce Miller Lite. For only $10, patrons can get the green beer and burrito combo deluxe while $30 gets guests six Miller Lites and a souvenir cooler to keep for the rest of their evening activities. A $6 Milagro Tequila Bloody Mary or a Stolichnaya Green Bloody Mary is definitely necessary. For the live entertainment, DJ Pony P. will keep the RHUMBAR patio fun late-night.

For more information, visit www.themirage.com, www.RHUMBARLV.com or call (702) 792-7615.

Monte Carlo
This year guests are invited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at three of Monte Carlo's hot spots - The Pub at Monte Carlo, Minus5 Ice Bar and Diablo's Cantina. The Pub is the go-to spot at Monte Carlo for great food, beer, entertainment and on St. Patrick's Day will offer several food specials throughout the day. Guests can, of course, wash down the food with daring drink specials including $4.95 pints of green beer as well as $6.95 Irish Car Bombs.

Check out Minus5 Ice Bar for an energetic St. Patrick's Day party where guests will be treated to an Ice Luge in front of the Lounge. Green shots will be served throughout the evening and the entire Ice bar will be green.

At Diablo's Cantina, guests will have a devilishly good time on St. Patrick's Day 2011 as "Party Central" will feature USA U2. For those looking to let loose in a lively fiesta-like atmosphere, this tribute band out of Southern California will treat guests to an entertaining performance while they enjoy pint-after-pint of Irish beer and a variety of drink specials.

For more information about St. Patrick's Day events at Monte Carlo, please call (800) 311-8999.

NEW YORK-NEW YORK
Celtic Feis returns to New York-New York featuring a full weekend of Irish entertainment, music and of course, beer. The party kicks off at 11 a.m. on St. Patty's Day with a Bag Pipers parade followed at 11:30 a.m. with live music along the Brooklyn Bridge performed by Sin E Ri Ra. Later that afternoon the Celtic Rockers will take the stage from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. and Sin E Ri Ra will return to close the party from 9:30 p.m. - 2:15 a.m.

Nine Fine Irishmen Pub kicks off its festive atmosphere from noon - 4 p.m. with Irish favorites Mike Bowman followed later that day by Frank Joseph, and concludes with The Limey Barstewards from 9:30 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Tickets to Celtic Feis start at $25 and include admission to the day's events and one free drink. A special St. Patrick's Day menu will be available during Celtic Feis and will feature items including Drunken Onion Rings, Steak & Stout Pies and the famous Shepherd's Pie, among others. Menu prices range from $10-$13 and guests may enjoy drink specials throughout the day as well. Tickets may be purchased in person at Nine Fine Irishmen Pub on St. Patrick's Day, at the Zumanity Box Office, or in advance by calling (866) 606-7111.

The party continues Friday, March 18 - Sunday, March 20 outside on the Nine Fine Irishmen Patio as well as inside Nine Fine Irishmen Pub. Each day guests can catch the NCAA basketball tournament fever inside the Pub, enjoy drink specials and then rock out to additional live entertainment outside to the beats of Frank Joseph from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. and Mike Bowman from 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Back inside the Pub each night, Sin E Ri Ra will perform from 9:15 p.m. - 2:45 a.m.

For more information about St. Patrick's Day events at New York-New York, please call (800) 693-6763.

To post a comment, you must register and login.