The Talk About Las Vegas Podcast | a podcast by Ira Sternberg

This week, Ira spoke with Clint Holmes. Clint Holmes, named Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year three times, Singer of the Year four times and awarded the Sammy Davis Jr. Foundation award, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of his residency at Cabaret Jazz inside The Smith Center. He will be performing Friday, March 8, Saturday, […]

This week, Ira spoke with Kevin Eubanks. Kevin Eubanks, who performs (along with Stanley Jordan) in Cabaret Jazz at the Smith Center, February 22-23, is a gifted musician, prolific composer, and winner of the BMI Classic Theme Composer Award. Kevin is also well known as the Music Director of The “Tonight Show” Band, appearing on […]

This week, Ira spoke with Impressionist Rick Michel. Rick Michel, who will be performing “Sinatra Forever starring Rick Michel” with his 24-piece orchestra at the M Resort on Saturday, February 23rd, has been a master impressionist for more than thirty years. He has shared the stage with  Rich Little, Mickey Rooney, John Byner and Sherman […]

This week, Ira spoke with Kurt Elling. Among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists, Kurt Elling has been the DownBeat Critics Poll “Male Jazz Vocalist of the Year” for the past thirteen years. The New York Times declared “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” He is also a Grammy winner, and every record […]

This week, Ira spoke with Chef Rick Moonen. Chef Rick Moonen has devoted his career to being the country’s top culinary advocate for sustainable seafood. A native New Yorker, Moonen graduated first in his class from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in 1978.  He apprenticed at L’Hostellerie Bressane in Hillsdale, […]

This week, Ira spoke with Steinway Artist David Osborne. Steinway Artist David Osborne, currently performing at the Bellagio Resort and Casino, was born and raised in Miami, Oklahoma.  He knew he wanted to make music his life after hearing the church pianist at the age of four.  Osborne began taking formal piano lessons at the […]

This week, Ira spoke with Gordie Brown. Gordie Brown, who is currently headlining at the Golden Nugget, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He began working as a political cartoonist for the Ottawa Sunday Herald. After his co-workers entered him in an industry talent competition in which he took first prize, Gordie caught the […]

Lou Christie, who will be headlining at the Suncoast Showroom on New Year’s weekend, December 29 and 30, began his chart topping, multi-million selling career as a songwriter, recording artist, and performer in a two-track studio in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania. It was his rural hometown near Pittsburgh. Lou's first million selling song, “The Gypsy Cried,” transformed a local choirboy, Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, into Lou Christie, national teen idol, while still a teenager himself.

Deana Martin, who will be performing at The Smith Center, December 14-16, is an internationally acclaimed entertainer, performing to sold-out audiences worldwide. She is an accomplished actor and Top-10 recording artist.

With more than 65 studio albums, 10 live albums, 37 compilations and 40 million records sold worldwide, including the critically acclaimed classics Shotgun Willie, Red Headed Stranger and Stardust, Willie Nelson is one of country music's most recognized artists of all time. As a Nashville artist in the '60s, Nelson himself penned more than a few tunes that have arguably become American classics themselves, including "Crazy," "Night Life" and the sublime "Funny How Time Slips Away."