Tom Jones

Pop / Vocal / Easy Listening / Soul

Season: October 2026

Sir Tom Jones returns to the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas for three performances on October 21, 23, and 24, 2026 — each beginning at 8:00 PM — continuing a long-running relationship with one of the Strip's most intimate headline venues. The 85-year-old Welsh legend, born Thomas John Woodward on June 7, 1940, in Pontypridd, South Wales, carries more than six decades of recordings and more than 100 million records sold into a voice that critics consistently describe as one of the most powerful and resilient in popular music. His debut single It's Not Unusual (1965) reached number one in the United Kingdom and established Jones as a force in British pop at a moment when that market was already saturated with competing male vocal acts — his baritone cut through in a way that positioned him immediately as a headliner rather than a novelty. The follow-up singles What's New Pussycat? (1965), Green, Green Grass of Home (1966), Delilah (1968), Help Yourself (1968), She's a Lady (1971), and It's Not Unusual collectively built a catalog that has sustained radio airplay and cultural recognition across five decades without significant interruption. Jones was knighted in 2006 — Sir Tom Jones, CBE — for services to the music industry, a recognition that formalized what the commercial record had long established: that his career was not simply a 1960s pop phenomenon but a sustained, multi-decade artistic and commercial presence that had navigated the genre shifts from British Invasion pop through MOR ballads, American country, adult contemporary, and late-career roots and blues recordings. His 2010 album Praise & Blame, produced by Ethan Johns, represented a significant artistic departure from his pop catalog — sparse, acoustic, and blues-inflected — that drew critical attention to the depth of his vocal instrument in a context stripped of the orchestral production that had surrounded it throughout most of his commercial peak. The two follow-up albums in the trilogy, Spirit in the Room (2012) and Long Lost Suitcase (2015), continued that direction and earned Jones the most sustained critical re-evaluation of his career. His 42nd studio album Surrounded by Time (2021) debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. At the Encore Theater — a 1,480-seat purpose-built venue at 3131 Las Vegas Blvd S inside Wynn Las Vegas — Jones has sold out multiple previous engagements, a track record that reflects the specific alignment between his performance style and the room's scale. The Encore Theater is neither the stadium context that requires spectacle to fill space nor the club context that requires intimacy to succeed; it is a room sized for the kind of performance Jones delivers — powerful vocals projected into a crowd close enough to register the emotional directness of his delivery without requiring amplification to carry a large venue. His Las Vegas residency appearances at Encore have drawn an audience that spans his original fans and listeners who came to his work through later recordings and television appearances including The Voice UK, where his tenure as a coach from 2012 through 2015 introduced his catalog and personality to an entirely new generation of viewers. Tickets for the October 21, 23, and 24 performances are available through Ticketmaster and the Wynn Las Vegas box office, with on-sale beginning May 29, 2026. For visitors planning Strip nightlife around the October 21 or 24 shows, the Encore Theater sits within the Wynn Las Vegas complex — directly connected to Wynn Nightclub and XS Nightclub at the south end of the Wynn property, with OMNIA at Caesars Palace and Hakkasan at MGM Grand accessible via rideshare in under ten minutes for guests who want to extend the evening after the 8 PM performance.