Don McLean

Folk / Singer-Songwriter / Soft Rock

Season: June 2026

Don McLean brings his timeless catalog to the International Westgate Theater at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM (doors 6:00 PM) — a rare Las Vegas evening with one of American folk music's most enduring voices. Born October 2, 1945 in New Rochelle, New York, McLean established himself as one of the defining singer-songwriters of the 1970s with his 1971 album American Pie, whose title track — an 8.5-minute allegorical narrative referencing Buddy Holly's death and the cultural shifts of the 1960s — reached #1 in the United States and has been analyzed, debated, and celebrated for over 50 years as one of rock history's most intellectually rich pop songs. Vincent (Starry, Starry Night), his meditation on Vincent van Gogh's life and art released the same year, reached #1 in the UK and is widely regarded as one of the most beautifully constructed pop ballads ever written — a song that has outlasted the era of its release by becoming a permanent fixture in cultural memory. His additional catalog — Crying (a cover of the Roy Orbison original that reached #5), Castles in the Air, And I Love You So, Wonderful Baby — reflects the full range of McLean's folk and pop sensibility across six decades of performing. The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino — located at 3000 Paradise Road, one mile from the Strip — is a property with deep entertainment history as the venue where Elvis Presley launched his Las Vegas comeback engagement in 1969 and performed over 600 shows across a decade. Tickets from $131 through Ticketmaster.