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Faith and Begorrah- it’s St. Pat’s Weekend!
In between parades in Kansas City, Lawrence, and Topeka, and the drinking and shenanigans, there’s a wealth of live offerings from very different genres. As far as St. Pat’s Day itself, your choices below are a gentle French opera at Kauffman, some cutting-edge comedy, or Decibel Magazine’s 20th Anniversary loud-fest in Lawrence.
Let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for the upcoming week, from March 15th-22nd.
(FYI, ticket hyperlinks are embedded in each show’s headline)
FRIDAY MARCH 15
Zed's Dead, March 15 and 16, The Midland,$33-$50
EDM's Zeds Dead’s “2 Night Stand” tour, first took place in 2016 and featured shows in renowned rock venues over a pair of usually sold-out nights. Recently, Zeds Dead’s Deadbeats record label teamed up with Los Angeles-based promotion company Brownies & Lemonade for Deadbeats x DNBNL, a compilation album filled with drum and bass.
Park ICM Spring Concert w Laura Jackson Guest Conductor, Parkville, FREE w RSVP
Taking place at the Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel the annual spring concert will be under the direction of guest conductor Laura Jackson, Music Director and Conductor of the Reno Philharmonic Association, who is making her return engagement with the ICM Orchestra. Maestra Jackson has selected a program of works for string orchestra featuring music of Sir Edward Elgar, Patrick Harlin and Franz Schubert.
This performance will feature the students of the ICM String Quartet in their first appearance with the orchestra. A native of Seattle, Harlin is composer in residence with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and his works have been performed by the St. Louis and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras. His music draws parallels between the sounds of the natural world and those of the concert hall, seeking to bring awareness to the importance of sound in our environment.
Ginuwine, Mar 15, Ameristar Casino, $50-$70
The Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter hits include “Differences”, “Pony”, “So Anxious”, and “Stingy”. The dancer-actor’s Three Kings garnered a Grammy nod for “Best R&B Album” and 100% Ginuwine won the 2000 Soul Train Award for “Best R&B/Soul Album.”
Roméo et Juliette, Kauffman Center, also on March 17, $38-$212
Shakespeare’s most famous play is transformed by giving it the French grand opera treatment. Charles Gounod’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet follows the classic centuries-old tale and brings this familiar tragedy to an epic crescendo. Romeo Montague has fallen for Juliet Capulet, a member of a rival family in Verona. They secretly marry, but family tensions come to a dramatic peak. A plan is hatched to keep them together; however, it plays out in all the wrong ways resulting in devastating tragedy. With librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré and conducted by Christopher Allen, the work is performed in French with English translations projected above the stage.
SATURDAY MARCH 16
Sir Chloe, Mar 16, Madrid, $23
The acclaimed project of singer/songwriter/guitarist Dana Foote has returned with an electrifying new single, “Seventeen,” which is out now via Atlantic Records. “Seventeen” follows Sir Chloe’s acclaimed debut album, I Am The Dog, which was released just back in 2023. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winner John Congleton (Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) with songwriting contributions from Teddy Geiger (Caroline Polachek, Sylvan Esso, Lizzo) and Sarah Tudzin (Weyes Blood, Amen Dunes, Slowdive), the album includes such paradoxical singles as “Should I,” “Salivate,” “Hooves,” and “Know Better.”
Barely Alive w/ Beastboi, Villa, March 16, The Truman, $23.50-$55
Since 2013, Massachusetts natives Willie Watkins and Matt Meier have had one goal: dominate the dubstep and bass music world. Currently residing in Long Beach, the two producers met in middle school and grew up together with a shared passion for music and are well known by listeners and fellow producers for their cross of heavy bass sound design with 80s-inspired synthwave musicality. They tour as a singular box-headed figure, the ever-angry anthropomorphism of the duo's logo.
Neil Rubenstein (comedy) March 16 (Don't Tell- NKC) and March 17 (Knuckleheads) $15-$25
Equal Vision Records and Neil Rubenstein are excited to announce the digital release of Have Some Dignity, the Long Island-bred comedian’s one-hour, debut stand-up special. To celebrate the release, Rubenstein has announced a number of performances across the spring, summer and fall in support.
Growing up in the punk rock scene, Rubenstein was both in bands (Sons of Abraham) and tour managed them (Taking Back Sunday). Having had some unusual life experiences outside of music — he ran an illegal poker room, owned a brothel, and had a stint as a gambling expert on TV — provides a solid bedrock for his stand-up.
SUNDAY MARCH 17
Hulder w Necrofier, Devil Master, Worm- Mar 17, Bottleneck-Lawrence, $20-$25
The longest-running metal tour in North America is back! The Decibel Magazine Tour celebrates the magazine’s 20th anniversary with its return
as Northwest black metal executioners Hulder headline the 11th nationwide expedition. Support comes from Philly vampunk warriors Devil Master, Floridian blackened doom swamp rockers Worm and Houston black metal earth-scorchers Necrofier.
“It is an honor to be given the opportunity to headline the 2024 Decibel Tour,” says guitarist/vocalist/founder Hulder. “The band will be playing a strong setlist with a number of twists and turns throughout and I am looking forward to this new chapter in the journey of Hulder’s live performance. I can only imagine that being joined by our brothers in Devil Master, Worm and Necrofier will be nothing but a display of power and force. We shall carry the torch of the old guard and blaze a pathway for the new era.”
MONDAY MARCH 18
TUESDAY MARCH 19
WEDNESDAY MARCH 20
Black Flag, Mar 20, Knuckleheads, $28.50-$43.50
The legendary punk band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, CA, by guitarist, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member Greg Ginn. Their discography includes seven studio albums and two live albums. The band has released all of their material on Ginn’s independent label, SST Records beginning with 1981’s Damaged. Vocalist Mike Vallely, first sang with the band as a guest vocalist in 2003, before becoming the band’s fifth vocalist in 2014.
THURSDAY MARCH 21
FRIDAY MARCH 22
Adam Ant w/The English Beat, March 22, Uptown, $46-$135
The New Wave icon and special guests The English Beat are set to embark on the “Ant Music 2024 North American Tour.” This extensive 40-date journey, celebrating Ant’s hit single “Antmusic." The English Beat, renowned for their fusion of ska, pop, and punk, brings classic hits like “Mirror in the Bathroom” and “Sooner or Later” to the tour. We caught Ant over a decade ago in Minneapolis and The English Beat live a bit more recently, headlining in 2017.
Shmuel Ashkenasi (Classical violinist), Mar 22, 1900 Building, $10-$30
Born in Tel-Aviv in 1941, Ashkenasi began his musical training at the Musical Academy of Tel-Aviv studying with legendary teacher Ilona Feher. He is a noted teacher, currently holding the post of Professor of Violin at the Curtis Institute of Music. Ashkenasi will be in concert at the 1900 Building and will be accompanied by Park ICM’s own Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano.
National Touring act coming to Kansas City, Lawrence, KS, Topeka, KS, or vicinity? Let us know so we can spotlight the appearance-email [email protected]
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