Aaron's Benward's Nashville Unplugged presented by Mountain Dew returns to Mandalay Bay every Friday night at Rhythm & Riffs. Aaron will be joined on stage by the songwriters behind some of Country music's best loved songs. Hear the story behind how the music came to be, direct from the songwriters themselves, then watch them perform live! It’s an all-acoustic show that gives the audience the pleasure of an intimate and highly interactive experience with the music they love and the songwriters behind each one.
Rhythm & Riffs | Age 21+
Free Admission
Aaron Benward is an award-winning and multi-platinum singer/songwriter and music/film/tv producer. Aaron introduced Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind the Song to Las Vegas in 2009 at Mandalay Bay providing a platform for songwriters to engage with a captive audience. Returning from the pandemic, Nashville Unplugged is better than ever bringing back Aaron and a catalog of songwriters ready to tell their stories and perform their songs live once again at Mandalay Bay!
Travis Howard is a Georgia-born songwriter and producer who found respite from a lot of Southern guilt in Los Angeles. He was 26 when he got to East Hollywood. He felt like such a misfit until he started writing songs. Suddenly everybody wanted to hear his story. Because it was everybody’s story.
He started his career writing country hits with Miranda Lambert and ended up working some with Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban, Waylon Payne, Brooks & Dunn and Reba. And working from LA, of course he's had a lot of film and TV cuts. (The same song ended up on Queer Eye and Death Wish…what!)
Whether it be behind the ivory keys or strumming the six-string acoustic guitar, D's ability to captivate an audience is unmatched. Professionally, D. Vincent has written songs that have landed on more than 35 million records such as: Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, John Michael Montgomery, Neal McCoy, Craig Morgan, Lee Ann Womack, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and Reba McEntire.
Winner of the 2022 ACM Song of the Year for Rascal Flatts' "I'm Moving On" and the 2008 Billboard Most Played Song of the Year and Multi-Week #1 on all radio charts with James Otto's "Just Got Started Lovin' You."
At Rhythm & Riffs
Join award winning Country music songwriters in an interactive, acoustic-style concert every Friday night hosted by Aaron Benward.
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