LAS VEGAS, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas
Sands (NYSE: LVS) announced today that Grammy Award-winning,
multi-platinum artist Kelly Clarkson
will headline Sands Cares INSPIRE 2019, the signature fund-raising
event for the Sands Cares Accelerator Program, on Friday, May 24, at The Venetian® Resort Las
Vegas. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
PST, Friday, March 22.
Underwritten by Las Vegas Sands, the charity concert raises
funds for Sands Cares Accelerator Program members – the Marty
Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation (ICF) and Nevada Partnership
for Homeless Youth (NPHY) – as part of the program's aim to invest
a variety of resources in participating nonprofit organizations to
accelerate their impact in the Las
Vegas community.
Clarkson is one of the most popular artists of this era with
worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and 36 million
singles. The Texas-born,
Nashville-based singer-songwriter
is one of pop music's top singles artists, with 17 singles boasting
multi-platinum, platinum and gold certifications around the world,
including such global favorites as "Miss Independent" and "Because
of You." She is the recipient of numerous honors including
three GRAMMY Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video
Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, two American
Country Awards, and one Country Music Association Award. She also
is the first artist to top Billboard's pop, adult contemporary,
country and dance charts.
Clarkson has released eight studio albums, one greatest hits
album, and two children's books. Last year, she hosted
the "2018 Billboard Music Awards" in addition to
appearing and winning as a coach on
the 14th and 15th seasons
of The Voice before reclaiming her red chair for the
series' current 16th season. Clarkson is also slated to make
her daytime debut with her very own talk show, "The Kelly Clarkson
Show," airing in the fall of 2019 on NBC.
Clarkson comes to INSPIRE fresh off the "Meaning of Life Tour,"
her first since 2015. Fans will get to see her breathtaking live
performance and amazing vocals amid the beautiful grandeur of an
intimate classic American performing arts center, The Venetian
Theatre. Featuring artists known for their inspiring live
performances – Jewel, Jason Mraz and
now Clarkson – Sands Cares INSPIRE curates an evening of amazing
entertainment that both uplifts and impacts the Las Vegas community, since 100 percent of
ticket and VIP package sales are donated to local nonprofit
organizations.
INSPIRE 2019 beneficiaries NPHY and ICF are current members of
the Sands Cares Accelerator Program and among the best in
Southern Nevada for putting
at-risk youth on a positive trajectory toward a brighter future.
Youth homelessness is an especially critical problem for
Southern Nevada, with Clark County's metro area ranking among the
top in the nation for the rate of unaccompanied homeless youth
living on the streets or in shelters. Beyond the issue of
homelessness, youth today face a myriad of pressures that make them
vulnerable to a range of negative outcomes that can deeply affect
their lives and put them at-risk for victimization, teen pregnancy,
dropping out of school, serious health and wellness risks and teen
suicide.
NPHY provides comprehensive services to stabilize the lives of
homeless teens by meeting their immediate needs as well as
providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to
self-sufficiency. ICF actively works with at-risk youth to help
them realize their potential through project-driven learning,
mentoring, apprenticeships, academics and athletics.
"INSPIRE is a do-good, feel-good opportunity for the community,"
said Ron Reese, senior vice
president of global communications and corporate affairs at Las
Vegas Sands. "The chance to see someone as powerful as Kelly Clarkson in a more personal venue like The
Venetian Theatre, combined with knowing your ticket purchase is
going directly to helping at-risk youth, should make for a
remarkable evening."
General admission tickets for Sands Cares INSPIRE featuring
Kelly Clarkson are available at
www.Venetian.com/INSPIRE, The Venetian Box Office or
Ticketmaster beginning at 10 a.m.,
Friday, March 22. Premium Packages featuring value-added
opportunities are available only at
www.Venetian.com/INSPIRE and The Venetian Box Office.
About Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS)
Las Vegas
Sands is the world's pre-eminent developer and operator of
world-class Integrated Resorts. We deliver unrivaled economic
benefits to the communities in which we operate.
LVS created the meetings, incentives, convention and exhibition
(MICE)-based Integrated Resort. Our industry-leading Integrated
Resorts provide substantial contributions to our host communities
including growth in leisure and business tourism, sustained job
creation and ongoing financial opportunities for local small and
medium-sized businesses.
Our properties include The Venetian Resort and Sands Expo in
Las Vegas, Sands Bethlehem in Eastern
Pennsylvania, and the iconic Marina
Bay Sands in Singapore.
Through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd., we have
developed the largest portfolio of properties on the Cotai Strip in
Macao, including The Venetian
Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Sands Cotai Central
and The Parisian Macao, as well as the Sands Macao on the Macao
Peninsula.
LVS is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen, anchored by
the core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. We
deliver a great working environment for 50,000 team members
worldwide, drive social impact through the Sands Cares charitable
giving and community engagement program and lead in environmental
performance through the award-winning Sands ECO360 global
sustainability program. To learn more, please visit
www.sands.com.
About Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
NPHY is
the most comprehensive service provider for the thousands of
homeless youth in Southern Nevada,
serving hundreds of youth through its core programs and touching
the lives of thousands more through outreach each year. NPHY's
programs stabilize homeless teens' lives, meeting their immediate
needs and providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to
self-sufficiency. Through its work with homeless youth, NPHY
creates productive, healthy adults who contribute to society.
Strengthening and complementing its high-quality direct services
for homeless youth, NPHY is dedicated to advocating for the Vegas
Valley's homeless youth population and serves as a leader in
systems-level efforts to eliminate homelessness among Nevada's youth. For more information or to
support NPHY's life-changing work for homeless youth, please
visit www.nphy.org.
About the Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children
Foundation
The Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation
takes at-risk youth off the streets and into greatness. The
Foundation works to inspire youth by helping them create a vision
for their life, where they can develop their strengths through
project-driven learning, mentoring, apprenticeships, academics, and
athletics. The program asks children to "earn their way" and to
"discover their passions" by helping them create and execute
quarterly business plans. Through this process, the leadership and
character development program arms youth with a "psychology for
life," using emotional intelligence and the
www.jewelneverbroken.com mindfulness curriculum, that prepares them
mentally, emotionally, and physically to live happy, driven and
inspired lives. For more information, visit
http://www.inspiringchildren.net/.
Contacts:
Kristin Koca
Kristin.koca@sands.com
702-414-3218
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