{"slides":[{"media_title":"Blippi: Join the Band Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"C'mon and join Blippi to make music in your hometown in the brand new live Blippi: Join the Band Tour! \n\n \n\nBlippi will be joined onstage by Meekah, their singing and dancing buddies and LIVE musicians to explore what makes music, including sounds, rhythms and instruments, through all your favorite Blippi hits. So grab your drumsticks, tune up your guitar, and move those feet with Blippi and get ready for a musical performance that's fun for the whole family!\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/blippi-1240x630-234886b61d.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/blippi-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 25<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"6:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/blippi-840x630-d7ab1f5bab.jpg","category":{"name":"Family Friendly","id":"5"}},{"media_title":"Jeff Arcuri: Whole Wide World Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"SOLD OUT! \n\n \n\nThe Chicago Tribune calls Jeff Arcuri “a joke machine,” but he’s not! He’s a person! Jeff has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Laughs! on Fox, SiriusXM, and a plethora of comedy festivals around the country. Based in New York, Jeff can be seen nightly at The Comedy Cellar.\n\n \n\nPresented with Comedy Connection\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jeff-arcuri-SOLD-1240x630-9e8f0222e6.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/jeff-arcuri-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 26<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jeff-arcuri-SOLD-840x630-327b552947.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"One Vision of Queen","media_tagline":"Starring Marc Martel","event_body":"ONE VISION OF QUEEN featuring Marc Martel is an explosive, attention-commanding tribute to the iconic rock band and features a diverse array of Queen’s greatest hits, including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” “We Are The Champions,” “Another One Bites The Dust,” “Under Pressure” and “Somebody to Love.”\n\n \n\nMarc Martel has been called the “vocal doppelganger for the Queen frontman” by The New York Times and Rolling Stone called Martel’s vocal resemblance to Freddie Mercury as “striking.” He became nationally known in 2011 when he submitted a video of himself covering “Somebody to Love” as part of a contest spearheaded by the members of Queen. The video landed him an appearance on the Ellen Show and he was hand-selected by Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen to be the voice of their official tribute group “The Queen Extravaganza.” Martel has appeared on American Idol with the Queen Extravaganza and contributed vocals for the Oscar-nominated Queen biopic film Bohemian Rhapsody.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/queen25-1240x630-eb2e8e2448.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/one-vision-of-queen-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 27<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/queen25-840x630-9cc98363ea.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Swan Lake","media_tagline":"","event_body":"The treasured classic, beloved the world over for its graceful artistry and spectacular technique, interwoven with a story that has captivated generations of dance lovers. Swan Lake comes to life on stage for the first time since 2019. Experience the world’s best-loved ballet staged by Director Kathleen Breen Combes and Resident Choreographer Yury Yanowsky, performed by the resident Ballet company of Rhode Island. It’s a tale of young love and wicked deception, a spellbinding escape that is perfect for the whole family.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/VETS_swanlake_1240x630-45fc7c9e8c.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/swan-lake-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 3 - 4<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group Festival Ballet","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/VETS_swanlake_840x630-b02dd0dcf4.png","category":{"name":"Family Friendly","id":"5"}},{"media_title":"Brian Regan","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Critics, fans and fellow comedians agree: Brian Regan is one of the most respected comedians in the country with Vanity Fair calling Brian, “The funniest stand-up alive,” and Entertainment Weekly calling him, “Your favorite comedian’s favorite comedian.”  Having built his 30-plus year career on the strength of his material alone, Brian’s non-stop theater tour continuously fills the most beautiful venues across North America, visiting close to 100 cities each year.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Digital-Website_1240x630_BrianRegan_2024_Regional_TheVETS_0506-b46d7d595e.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/brian-regan-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 6<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Digital-Website_840x630_BrianRegan_2024_Regional_TheVETS_0506-c3d47b1f8d.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Brit Floyd: Wish You Were Here","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Brit Floyd returns to the stage in 2025 with their biggest and most spectacular production to date, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s classic album ‘Wish You Were Here’, complete with a stunning laser and light show, iconic circular screen, inflatables and theatrics. Released in 1975 and featuring four of the band’s most beloved loved songs, ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, ‘Welcome to the Machine’, ‘Have a Cigar’ and the title track, ‘Wish You Were Here’ is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/brifloyd-2025-1240-8e551b5c91.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/brit-floyd-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 7<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/britfloyd-840x630-ab6b851887.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Danae Hays: The First Time Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Alabama-bred and Nashville-based, comedian, actress, and content creator, Danae Hays represents a fresh, new female voice in the comedy, acting, and music worlds. Her cast of zany southern characters and parody country music songs have pushed her to the top of the Spotify and Apple Music charts, earning her a cumulative following of 3.6M+ followers and nearly 2 billion views. Danae's debut Country\/Comedy single "Rode Hard" peaked at No. 5 on the Country Global iTunes Charts, No. 8 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales, No. 22 on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales, and No. 34 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/danae-hays-1240x630-d24012fd41.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/danae-hays-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 17<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/danae-hays-840x630-a687c6a4c9.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Theresa Caputo Live: The Experience","media_tagline":"","event_body":"For over a decade, Theresa Caputo, known worldwide as the Long Island Medium, and star of the new Lifetime Series Raising Spirits, has shared her messages of comfort and healing with more than a million and a half audience members worldwide.\u202f Through personal stories about her life and explaining her gift to communicate with those who have passed on, the beloved television personality and best-selling author delivers healing messages to audience members, comforting them with the revelation that their deceased loved ones are still with them-- just in a different way.\u202f Recognized as one of the most renowned mediums for over 30 years, Theresa Caputo Live: The Experience is the awe-inspiring event you won’t want to miss.\u202f \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/theresa-1240x630-2-6d8300d3da.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/theresa-caputo-experience","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 29<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/theresa-840x639-2-4e5c750da6.jpg","category":{"name":"Performing Arts","id":"2"}},{"media_title":"2025 Annual Gala Celebration with Yo-Yo-Ma","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Robert Spano, conductor\n\nYo-Yo Ma, cello\n\n \n\nCHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS: Rainbow Body\n\nCOPLAND: Appalachian Spring: Suite\n\nDVO\u0158ÁK: Cello Concerto\n\n \n\nTickets start at $60, visit tickets.riphil.org or call 401-248-7000 to purchase today!\n\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Gala-2025_VetsWeb_1240x630_v2-a93a4bdf5f.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/2025-gala","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 31<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured RI Philharmonic","event_time":"5:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Gala-2025_VetsWeb_840x630_v2-32f6645575.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Sarah Millican: Late Bloomer","media_tagline":"","event_body":"When Sarah Millican was a child, she wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Quiet at school, not many friends, no boobs ‘til she was 16. Now? NOW she is loud, with good friends, a cracking rack and goose booing all over the shop. In Late Bloomer, Sarah’s brand-new stand-up show, she explores how one became the other. Plus, lots of stuff about dinners and lady gardens. Come along and join Sarah on her second American tour, laugh at her, with her, beside her.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Digital_1240x630_SarahMillican_2024_VeteransMemorialAuditorium_0621-3bd434305f.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/sarah-millican-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 21<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Digital_840x630_SarahMillican_2024_VeteransMemorialAuditorium_0621-f966ccbeaf.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Ralph Barbosa & Rene Vaca: The Bufferfly Effect","media_tagline":"","event_body":"The Butterfly Effect Tour brings together comics Ralph Barbosa and René Vaca for a night of comedy you won’t soon forget. The tour – originally meant to include comic Ken Flores – now carries on in honor of him. Don’t miss out on this night of laughs and remembrance.\n \n\n\n\nOne of the shyest attention hogs to ever do comedy, Ralph Barbosa’s disarming and laid-back style has made him a stand-out on stage, on TV and online. Most recently, Ralph taped his Hulu comedy special that will release in 2025. In 2024, he was nominated as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch. After a breakout year in 2023, Ralph is touring theaters in 2024 and 2025 with his North American theater tour, Ralph Barbosa: The Super Cool Ass Tour, which is selling out and adding shows. This included selling out two theater shows during Netflix Is A Joke Fest 2024, as well as hosting the kick-off Introducing show. On October 31st, 2023, Ralph premiered his Netflix stand-up special, Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga, which ranked as the #3 TV show on Netflix throughout its first week on the service. In January 2023, he made his debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, his Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring: Ralph Barbosa set has topped 5.1 million views on YouTube. In November 2022, Ralph starred in the HBO Max comedy special, Entre Nos: The Winners 3, and earlier that year his Don’t Tell Comedy performance was released on YouTube and now has over 5.7 million views. For more on Ralph visit his website, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube pages.\n\n \n\nBorn and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, René Vaca is a 29-year-old stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Although he started a landscaping business at 15 years old, he soon realized he wanted to pursue comedy for a living; he dropped out of college and has not looked back since. Vaca has been pursuing his dream of stand-up comedy and won the 16th annual StandUp NBC competition! Since then, Vaca has also built a following with his stand-up comedy clips reaching millions of views across his social media channels, including over 900 thousand followers on Instagram and 580 thousand followers on TikTok. Currently, he is on his nationwide tour.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/rbrv-1240x630-c6aa56e05d.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/ralph-barbosa-rene-vaca","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jul<\/span> 13<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/rbrv-840x630-8d44b7c699.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Alison Krauss & Union Station","media_tagline":"Arcadia Tour","event_body":"For nearly four decades, Alison Krauss & Union Station have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music.  Known for an immaculately crafted but endlessly surprising sound that transcends the boundaries of roots, country, rock & roll, and pop, Alison Krauss & Union Station are putting the finishing touches on a new album to be released in 2025 - their first since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts. Over the years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have brought their phenomenal live show to sold-out performances at famed venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Greek Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall, in addition to supporting Paul Simon in Hyde Park for his 2012 Graceland reunion. They now gear up for their first tour together since 2015.\n\nThe players – Alison Krauss (fiddle, lead vocal), Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar), Barry Bales (bass, vocals), and welcoming highly acclaimed and celebrated tenor vocalist Russell Moore (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal) as the newest member – are five distinct personalities, each of whom enjoys a flourishing solo career. But when they come together, they transform into a peerless group of musicians who share a singular focus.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/akus-1240x630-d395ef2e0e.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/alison-krauss-union-station","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 16<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/akus-840x630-4d0782fb63.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Kevin James: Owls Don't Walk","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.\n\nThe King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a Netflix sitcom set in the world of NASCAR.\n\nJames brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.\n\nJames made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred in, produced and co-wrote the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James has starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the features True Memoirs of an International Assassin and Home Team for Netflix, as well as the independent action thriller Becky.\n\nJames can currently be seen in his one hour stand-up comedy special Kevin James: Irregardless on Prime Video, which was nominated for 2024's Best Comedy Special by the Critics Choice Awards. James will also be starring in the upcoming feature film Playdate, alongside Alan Ritchson.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kevinjames-1240x630-962edf1c84.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/kevin-james-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 25<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kevinjames-840x630-bb928726e2.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"ZZ Top: The Elevation Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” has been at it for well over a half century, delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language.\n\n \n\nIt was in Houston in the waning days of 1969 that ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues. Their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” still one of the band’s signature pieces today. Eliminator, their 1983 album was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP. Their roots blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” on the nascent MTV. It was one of the music industry’s first albums to have been certified Diamond, far beyond Gold and Platinum and a reflection of US domestic sales exceeding 10 million units.\n\n \n\nAs a touring entity, they’ve been without peer over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans on four continents and have been the subject of their own Grammy-nominated documentary titled That Little Ol’ Band From Texas.  The band’s line-up of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard, who ironically is clean shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years until Dusty’s passing.  When Dusty temporarily departed the tour in the summer of 2021, it was a given that Elwood would be the perfect choice to stand in for Dusty until he could return. But Dusty’s return was not to be, and Elwood continues to handle the bass duties for the band now and into the future.\n\n \n\nThe elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste and Tenacity.”. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. Their influences are both the originators of the form – Muddy Waters, B.B. King, et al – as well as the British blues rockers and Jimi Hendrix who emerged the generation before ZZ’s ascendance.\n\n \n\nThey have sold hundreds of millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by Keith Richards, no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms. They are true rock icons and, against all odds, they’re really just doing what they’ve always done. ZZ TOP abides!\n\n \n\n \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/zztop-1240x630-c788f77925.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/zztop-elevation","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 26<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/zztop-840x630-b9ed7343ef.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny","media_tagline":"","event_body":"If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy. Jimmy Carr is going back on tour with his brand-new show ‘Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny’.\n\n \n\nJimmy tells jokes, and jokes are like magnets.\u202f\n\nJokes attract people, but they can also repel.\u202f\n\nSome people are repelled by Jimmy's dark brand of comedy. This show is not for them.\n\n \n\nBut if it's the kind of thing you like, then this is the kind of thing you’ll like.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jimmycarr25-1240x630-cd24c64184.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/jimmy-carr-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Nov<\/span> 2<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jimmycarr25-840x630-8fa7766a87.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}}]}