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The month is in full swing – school’s out for most, pools are open, and summer barbecues and activities have all commenced. All venues seem busy and there’s already been several instances where you have to pick between several good live options – a good sign for area entertainment bookings.
Let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for the upcoming week, from June 7th-13th.
(ticket hyperlinks are embedded in each show's headline)
FRIDAY JUNE 7
Tom Segura Starlight Theatre, June 7, $59.50-$149.50
One of the biggest touring comedians, is out on the second leg of his latest global stand-up comedy tour Tom Segura: Come Together. His previous tour, I’m Coming Everywhere, sold out venues across the world with over 300 shows.
"This tour is bigger and blacker than anything I've ever done, but that name has already been used, but Come Together gets the point across. Let's all come together for a night. One way or another we're going to make memories on this one," said Tom Segura.
Segura will donate a portion of the proceeds from Platinum ticket sales to the World Central Kitchen, a non-profit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. For more information about WCK, visit: https://wck.org/.
Burning Spear, Grinders KC June 7, $59.50-$79.50
UPDATE: Moved to Uptown Theater due to possible storms
Spend a night under the stars with living legend Burning Spear, one of reggae’s most distinctive, esteemed voices. After over half a century of performing, this true roots reggae believer stills shares mystical messages of Rastafarianism and resistance using his perfectly fashioned rhythms. Celebrating No Destroyer, his first project in 15 years for which he received a Grammy nomination, he continues to excel with meaningful, socially engaged music.
SATURDAY JUNE 8
Tim McGraw w Carly Pearce, June 8, T-Mobile Center, $34.50-$184
The three-time Grammy® Award-winning superstar is on his Standing Room Only Tour, in support of single “One Bad Habit” from his EP Poet’s Resumé, available now on Big Machine Records.
The Standing Room Only Tour promises more unparalleled, high energy live shows from McGraw. Featuring a huge production, his biggest hits, and songs from his 17th studio album Standing Room Only, the tour promises the fun and memories of a lifetime.
Arrive early for opener Carly Pearce who wowed us when we saw her live on the Kenny Chesney tour a couple summers ago. The new album is called Hummingbird and comes out the day before this show, but she’s also revealed a heart condition which may make her slow down a bit from previous.
Michael Franti Spearhead w Stephen Marley, Trevor Hall, June 8, KC LIVE!, $30-$70
We’re longtime fans of Michael Franti and Spearhead and their irresistible messages of positivity and love, and their interactive live shows will leave everyone with a bright smile on their face On this Togetherness Tour, he’s teamed with a son from the most famous name in reggae Stephen Marley for a full evening of guaranteed good vibes.
Franti has earned three Billboard No. 1’s with hopeful hits “Sound of Sunshine,” “Say Hey (I Love You)” and “I Got You,” as well as six Top 30 Hot AC singles, 10 Top 25 AAA Singles and three Billboard Top 5 Rock Albums. Franti & Spearhead’s 13th studio album Big Big Love is available everywhere now, featuring 17 tracks cowritten by Franti, reflecting his tenacity, inclusiveness, and optimism.
One dollar from the sale of each ticket will be donated to nonprofit Do It For The Love, which brings those with life threatening illnesses, veterans, and children with severe challenges to concerts worldwide, fulfilling over 3,500 wishes and touching the lives of over 15,000 people to date.
Stephen Marley is a 8x GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer, on in support of latest album Old Soul, released last September. The record explores a musical palette that spans a variety of cultures and genres alike, with special guests furthering the spiritual journey that encompasses the album.
Randy Travis, June 8, Folly, $46-$81
This is a surprise! – the return of a Country legend to live stages! The Randy Travis: More Life Tour features the legendary country singer and his co-star in The Price, James Dupré. The Hall of Fame member’s long-time touring band, consisting of Steve Hinson, David Johnson, Lance Dary, Bill Cook, Joe Van Dyke and Herb Shucher will rejoin on the road for the first time since right before his stroke in 2013. The show will consist of Dupré and the band performing all 16 of his iconic number ones including “On The Other Hand,” “Forever and Ever, Amen” and “Three Wooden Crosses.”
“We are incredibly excited to be back on the road and give Randy’s fans a chance to hear his music live again, and who better to sing his many hits than James Dupré?” said Mary and Randy Travis. The long-time Grand Ole Opry star also recently released two never-before-heard singles, "One in a Row” and “Lead Me Home.”
SUNDAY JUNE 9
Sarah McLachlan w Feist Starlight Theatre, June 9, $35.50-$150.50
The Grammy winner and Lilith Fair co-founder is headed back on the road — for the first time since 2016 — for “The Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour.” “It’s going to be awesome,” she says of her upcoming 2024, 30-date tour celebrating her third studio album. “I spent my 20s and 30s on the road, so I’m no stranger to it. But I will say, I was a lot younger.”
“The Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour" began in late May in Seattle and ends on July 6 in Houston, so KC is fortunate to get an early date and outdoors too (fingers crossed for good weather). “It’s like seven weeks long and I’m so excited. It’s such a fun concept to play a record start to finish,” she adds. “I’ve never done that before and ‘Fumbling Towards Ecstasy’ is my favorite record. So super excited about that.”
Joining her on the tour is Feist and will also feature Allison Russell as support.
A Day To Remember w/ The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Militarie Gun, June 9, Azura Amph, $36-$69
A Day to Remember are back in a big way on their so-called The Least Anticipated Album tour, which leads fans to believe that the group will be confirming a new studio album imminently. They released their last album, You’re Welcome, back in 2021. The record performed well commercially, peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and also cracking the Top 5 on Billboard’s Top Rock, Top Hard Rock, and Top Alternative albums charts. In 2022, the band released a brand new single, “Miracle.“
The Story So Far released their fourth album Proper Dose way back in 2018 through Pure Noise Records. The album hit No. 19 on the Billboard 200. Recently, the band has been in the studio working on the long awaited follow-up, I Want to Disappear.
Four Year Strong released their last album, Brain Pain, in 2020.
Future Stages Festival, June 9, Kauffman Center, Free!
Join the celebration and experience the arts in Kansas City! The FREE one-day festival invites everyone to explore a diverse range of
performances and interactive arts activities. Futures Stages Festival is a community event that showcases youth in the performing arts and spotlights hundreds of young, talented artists throughout the day on multiple stages. Featuring a variety of performing arts organizations and arts activity partners – the festival provides fun for ALL ages!
MONDAY JUNE 10
TUESDAY JUNE 11
Excision, June 11, Cable-Dahmer Arena- Independence, $59-$79
Excision has embarked on his biggest, most ambitious tour yet, Nexus, bringing his signature bass music and cutting-edge stage technology all across North America. For the first time, fans in every city will be getting the full concert experience.
DJ, producer and festival creator Excision (aka Jeff Abel) resides at the epicenter of an ever-expanding realm of the Bass Music genre. Hailing from Kelowna, BC, Abel is a pioneer of the North American Dubstep scene with over 17 years of relentless touring, cultivating a huge, passionate community at shows and festivals around the world. His expansive discography traverses a wide range of bass sounds across five full-length studio albums, countless EPs and singles, 17 annual fan-favorite mixes and numerous live recordings, amassing well over 2 billion streams globally.
On the recording side, he founded Subsidia Records in 2020 as a followup to his previous imprint Rottun Recordings. Subsidia continues to release tunes from emerging artists with a goal of celebrating and pushing forward the wide breadth of subgenres that culminate in bass music.
Goose, June 11, The Midland, $45-$65
The jam band (not to be confused with Geese) is out making 15 stops in the Midwest, East Coast and Mountain states, culminating with a final date in its home state on June 30. This, along with the recent announcement of new drummer Cotter Ellis marks the first live dates for the current combination.
Ellis joins as a permanent fixture, assuming the percussionist role previously held by founding member Ben Atkind. Goose has also revealed a new full-length project, Ted Tapes 2024, out now. One dollar from each ticket sold will go to benefit Greenpeace.
Donny Osmond, June 11, Kauffman Center, $91-$111
He’s still a little bit Country and a little bit Rock n Roll and will bring his award-winning Las Vegas production to the elegant confines of the Kauffman Center. Throughout a six-decades long career, Osmond has earned 33 gold records, selling over 100 million albums and becoming a worldwide music legend.
He has made history by celebrating six decades in show business with the release of his latest album Start Again, the 65th album for the performer. The album was directly inspired by Donny’s own unique career journey of constant reinvention over the course of his run as a globally recognized performer.
Chosen by the public as winner of Best Show, Best Performer, Best Resident Headliner and Best Production in the Best of Las Vegas honors from The Las Vegas Review Journal, Osmond’s show is an exciting, energy-filled musical journey of his unparalleled life as one of the most recognized entertainers. The audience experiences a 90-minute spectacle as he performs his hits, shares stories of his greatest memories and introduces brand new music in a new and re-imagined song and dance celebration. The show also includes an interactive segment where anyone in the audience can request any song Osmond has ever recorded.
One dollar from each ticket sale will go directly to City of Hope to support their fight against cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 12
Chris Stapleton w/ Marcus King, Allen Stone, June 12, T-Mobile Center, $69.75-$159.75
Chris Stapleton continues his “All-American Road Show” tour with special guests on the tour, which is produced by Live Nation, Marcus King, and Allen Stone for this KC stop.
The 8x Grammy, 15x CMA and 15x ACM Award-winner, released his new album, Higher, last November on Mercury Nashville. Produced by Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton and Chris Stapleton, the album showcases his voice and musical versatility across 14 songs that defy any one genre.
Of lead single “White Horse,” Billboard praises it as “a hell-raising anthem, meant to be blared with windows down and enjoyed with ears ringing. ‘White Horse’ finds Stapleton pairing an outlaw swagger with some heaven-scraping vocals, going for the gusto throughout the chorus to try and match the guitar snarl.” Furthermore, Consequence declares, “‘White Horse’ certainly suggests that Stapleton is leaning into his strengths as a cross-genre act.”
Baroness w Portrayal of Guilt, Filth is Eternal, May 12, The Bottleneck-Lawrence, $32-$35
Baroness is back out on tour throughout the U.S. in support of last year’s album STONE and will also feature Portrayal of Guilt, and Filth Is Eternal. We caught the hard rock band live, two years ago at this same venue and they blend all kinds of sub genres of hard rock, but it’s all head-banging-ly good.
THURSDAY JUNE 13
The Chameleons, June 13, recordBar, $42.49
UPDATE: Vehicle breakdown- Show Postponed until November 4th
Some of the old, some of the new-- the iconic post-punk band The Chameleons have returned with a brand-new three-song EP, “Where Are You?”, just out now via Metropolis Records and represents their first new studio recordings in over two decades. This is all a follow-up to last year’s return to live stages alongside The Mission (UK), which we we saddened to miss at recordBar, but are glad there’s another chance to see the band play live in the heartland. “It’s exciting to finally be putting out fresh Chameleons material for the first time in over twenty years, although initially I found it quite daunting,” admits vocalist/bassist Mark Burgess, “The question about new music is one I had been asked the most from people coming to the shows, a great many of whom weren’t even born when those records were originally made but nevertheless were excited and inspired by the music enough to catch multiple shows on multiple tours.”
Coupled with the shimmery “Endlessly Falling” and the acoustic ballad “Forever,” the “Where Are You?” EP is a slight taste of an upcoming album titled Arctic Moon planned for later 2024. “At this moment, we’re halfway through, but already everyone in the band is excited by what they’re hearing,” he says. “We’ve managed to transcend the confines of our own legacy and finally forge something fresh.”
Also in the live show, the band will be celebrating their 1986 breakthrough album Strange Times, which spawned the singles “Tears” and “Swamp Thing.” “I initially wasn’t a huge fan of album performance tours,” Burgess admits. “I believed instead that they ought to have been confined to one-off, special events. Performing Strange Times changed my mind,” he says. “For one thing, the album marked a significant evolution by the band both in its sound and the maturity of the writing. Secondly, it’s a challenging album to perform live and thus, it’s much more fun to play.”
Say Anything, June 13, Uptown, $33-$60
Say Anything are on a 2024 tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, …Is a Real Boy. The record, which includes the single “Alive With the Glory of Love,” is considered a classic from the 2000s era of pop-punk. In 2019, bandleader Max Bemix said that the band was “retiring.” Nevertheless, Say Anything released the single “Psyche!” back in April, marking their first new material since they put out the album Oliver Appropriate in 2019. The band has also performed a handful of shows in 2023.
Niko Moon, June 13, KC LIVE! Sold Out
The buzzing country artist has been having a good time since breaking out as a solo act in 2019, after being a member for a couple of years of Sir Rosevelt alongside fellow artists Zac Brown and Ben Simonetti. His first single “Good Time” went No. 1 on country radio and his other hits continue to climb the charts, bringing a positive vibes message to all that listen.
Beyond singing, Moon has written eight No. 1 songs and over 40 major record label tracks for artists such as Morgan Wallen, Avicii, Dierks Bentley, Pitbull, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts and more. He also co-produced the Zac Brown Band albums, Jekyll+Hyde and Welcome Home, and was recently named a SESAC country songwriter of the year.
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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