The popular native of County Clare, Ireland – band leader, Guss Hayes – will be among the musical entertainment helping to bring in 2013 at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway on New Year’s Eve (Monday night,December 31, 2012). Special dinner party packages are available, and live entertainment at the Entertainment Lounge in the Gotham Palace will be featured as the curtain comes down on 2012.  

Hayes and his band of renown will perform in the Empire Terrace Dining Room from 6:00 PM to 12:30 AM with dinner seatings at 5:30 PM ($59.95 for Empire Club Members and $69.95 for non-members), and 9:00 PM ($79.95 for members, and $89.95 for non members).

For reservations call 914-457-2457. Empire City is located at 810 Yonkers Avenue (at Central Avenue) in Yonkers, New York, Westchester County, (I-87 to Exit 2)

The 59-year-old Hayes, still with a twinkle in his smiling Irish eyes, says that his two favorite Celtic classics are “The Old Man” and “Song for Ireland,” which will surely be in his repertoire to ring in the New Year.  He also “relishes playing popular Irish songs at Yonkers Raceway, where (casino CEO) Tim Rooney has always been great."