Steve Minick has been named director of entertainment at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa, where he will oversee the hotel’s 1,500-seat Hard Rock Event Center. The venue will host more than 60 shows by major performers annually; recent artists include Keith Urban and Smokey Robinson, and coming up are Kool & the Gang and Neil Sedaka.
Most recently, Minick was corporate director of entertainment and business development at Pinnacle Entertainment in Las Vegas. Before that he was assistant general manager for Houston-based Live Nation Worldwide. Returning to his Seminole Gaming roots, Minick managed entertainment as production manager at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek from 2012 to 2015.
