27, and more sold-out shows with Rascal Flatts on March 3 and two by country music icon Reba McEntire on April 27 and 28.īut the point was well-taken: Among more than 20 shows the center has scheduled through May 19 are concerts you would expect to see at venues much larger than the 1,500-capacity Xcite Center. 14, with comedian Bill Engvall, a concert by Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers on Jan. That’s debatable: the arena has a run of sold-out shows that starts tonight, Sunday, Jan.
“We couldn’t have a better band opening than Chicago,” Ricci said before the red ribbon was snipped and a sold-out crowd entered the area. Tony Ricci, chief executive officer of Greenwood Racing Inc., which owns Parx Casino in Bensalem, was at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the casino’s new Xcite Center on Saturday, surrounded by members of classic horns-rock band Chicago, which christened the center its first show that night.
