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This week, Ira sits down with multi-award-winning, platinum-selling artist Matt Dusk, who’s bringing “Matt Dusk Sings Tony Bennett: The Best is Yet to Come” to Myron’s at The Smith Center on February 21-22. In this episode of Talk About Las Vegas With Ira, Matt shares his unforgettable encounters with Tony Bennett—what he learned from him as both an artist and a person. He reveals why Bennett’s technical brilliance made him a legend, how he “lived within the age of his voice,” and even what Tony’s favorite song was. Matt also opens up about how these timeless songs shaped his own storytelling, why Tony remains a genre unto himself, and how he weaves personal anecdotes into his performances. Plus, he shares one surprising thing he never got to ask Tony.
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