Potawatomi Casino Hotel in Milwaukee announces two-day Tejano festival for outdoor venue
Potawatomi Casino Hotel officials have announced the second event in their Potawatomi Amplified Concert Series at their new temporary outdoor venue: a two-day festival called Tejano America Fest 2024.
Taking place July 27 and 28 (the same weekend as the Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival), Tejano Fest will feature performances by Ramon Ayala, Duelo, Bobby Pulido and others, and will be hosted by actor Edward James Olmos and Jennifer Lopez tribute artist Connie P. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday at paysbig.com/amp, with prices to be announced.
The outdoor venue is located just west of the casino at 1721 W. Canal St., in a former Cargill lot purchased by Potawatomi in 2015. Capacity is 4,800 people, including reserved seating and VIP areas. Tejano Fest also will host food and beer trucks provided by Zócalo, with free parking available at the casino's parking structure.
Tejano Fest is the second of three events Potawatomi is planning for its outdoor venue. The first will be hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg this Saturday, with an artist still to be announced for an August show, expected on Aug. 22.
That was one of the dates related to permit applications that the Forest County Potawatomi Community filed with the Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services in April to stage potential events on the old Cargill lot. The others were June 15 (the date of the Snoop Dogg show), July 18, and July 26 to 28. A press release issued Monday suggests there will be no events, or at least no public events, taking place on July 18 — which is the last day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — or July 26.
Snoop Dogg will be Potawatomi's first ticketed concert event since closing the Northern Lights Theater in January 2023 to make room for a sportsbook, poker room and high-limit room that opened last month. But sources have told the Journal Sentinel that Potawatomi is interested in constructing a $200 million, 6,000-person-capacity concert venue on the Cargill lot land that it would self-finance, with a potential groundbreaking in early 2025. Potawatomi officials have declined comment.
The Journal Sentinel's Chris Foran and Dan Bice contributed to this report.
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