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Styx, Kevin Cronin & Don Felder to Perform at Starlight

By Live '80s Kansas City on December 30, 2024 Announcements, Tours

Starlight Theatre Hosts the Styx 2025 Summer Concert in Kansas City Legendary rockers join forces as Styx announced its summer concert outing with REO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin and former Eagles member Don Felder. Dubbed “The Brotherhood of Rock” tour, the trek is set to make a stop at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, MO on July 2, 2025. Fans will endure a night filled with amazing classics, including “The Best of Times,” “Too Much Time on My Hands” and “Mr. Roboto” from Styx, REO Speedwagon’s “Keep on Loving You,” “Take It on the Run” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling”…

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Night Ranger 2025 Tour Hits Uptown Theater

By Live '80s Kansas City on December 30, 2024 Announcements, Tours

Uptown Theater to Host Iconic Rock Band Night Ranger in Kansas City Iconic and ever-beloved rock band Night Ranger is set to perform live at Uptown Theater in Kansas City, MO on February 27, 2025. An absolute favorite, the group is an act to never miss live in concert, especially up close and personal in a solo indoor performance. With the members’ high energy combined with all of the emblematic hard-hitting tunes and forever cherished love ballads, they are guaranteed to blow the roof off of every venue they play. Hear songs like “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” “The…

New Wave Bands Taking Over Ameristar Casino

By Live '80s Kansas City on July 9, 2024 Announcements

Ameristar to Host Four Iconic New Wave Bands in One Night This Summer Get ready for the ultimate concert lineup this summer as Ameristar Casino hosts iconic new wave and synth-pop bands A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Naked Eyes and Animotion live at Star Pavilion on August 16. Billed as “Pop Goes the ’80s,” it’s an action-packed evening full of hits that define the greatest era of all time. You will hear such tunes as “Space Age Love Song,” “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” and “I Ran (So Far Away)” from A Flock of Seagulls, Wang…

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Extreme Tour w/ Living Colour to Hit VooDoo Lounge

By Live '80s Kansas City on May 13, 2024 Announcements, Tours

VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino to Host Extreme Tour Stop in KC Iconic rock band Extreme announced a slew of late-summer/early-fall concert dates in support of its newly released “Thicker Than Blood” album. The trek will roll through VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Hotel & Casino in North Kansas City on September 1. Joining the group out on the road is another icon of the genre, Living Colour. Fans can expect to hear the greatest hits from both groups, as well as tunes from Extreme off of that recent record. Extreme hits include the chart-topping “More Than Words” plus songs such…

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Jenny Lewis Returns to The Truman

By Live '80s Kansas City on December 16, 2023 Announcements, Tours

Jenny Lewis Announces 2024 Winter Tour Headed for Kansas City Singer-songwriter, musician and actress Jenny Lewis announced tour dates for the 2024 winter season. The indie rock and folk artist kicks off her trek on February 27 at House of Blues in San Diego, CA and comes to The Truman in Kansas City, MO on March 5. Lewis launched her music career in 1998 with the band Rilo Kiley and has performed in The Postal Service, as a duo in Jenny & Johnny and is currently with the trio Nice As Fuck. She has also released five solo albums since…

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Bruce Hornsby BrhyM Tour Hits Kauffman

By Live '80s Kansas City on November 6, 2023 Announcements, Tours

Kauffman Center in Downtown KC Presents Bruce Hornsby Live in Concert Incomparable multi-instrumentalist and improvisational artist Bruce Hornsby and his band The Noisemakers are set to perform live in concert inside of Helzberg Hall at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Kansas City, MO on March 14, 2024. The contemporary classical ensemble yMusic will join them on stage for this performance, which will feature new collaborative pieces plus tunes from Hornsby’s enduring discography. He is well-known for playing a different setlist each and every night, but fans will have the chance of hearing many of those beloved songs…

John Waite Tour Hits Ameristar Casino

By Live '80s Kansas City on November 5, 2023 Announcements, Tours

Ameristar Casino’s Star Pavilion to Host Iconic Rocker John Waite Legendary British rocker John Waite is set to perform live in concert at Star Pavilion inside of Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, MO on December 8, 2023. As a solo artist in the 1980s, he released the No. 1 hit song “Missing You,” as well as other tunes such as “Tears” and “Mr. Wonderful.” Additionally, he previously fronted The Babys and landed in the Top 10 with “Isn’t It Time” and “Everytime I Think of You.” He also later went on to front hard rock supergroup Bad English in the…

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Temptations Tour Hits Ameristar Casino

By Live '80s Kansas City on August 25, 2023 Announcements, Tours

Ameristar Casino’s Star Pavilion to Host R&B Legend The Temptations Legendary R&B and soul group The Temptations is set to perform live at Star Pavilion inside of Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, MO on October 7, 2023. The Motown vocalists are no stranger to the Star Pavilion stage, but have not appeared at the casino in five years. They continue to feature founding member and baritone singer Otis Williams plus tenor singer Ron Tyson (The Ethics), Terry Weeks (USAF’s ensemble Tops in Blue), Larry Braggs (Tower of Power) and newcomer and bass singer Jawan M. Jackson (“Motown the Musical”). Named…

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Night Ranger Tour Hits Ameristar Casino

By Live '80s Kansas City on August 23, 2023 Announcements, Tours

Ameristar Casino’s Star Pavilion to Host Iconic Rock Band Night Ranger Iconic and ever-beloved rock band Night Ranger is set to perform live at Star Pavilion inside of Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, MO on October 20, 2023. The show at Starlight Theatre in 2016 is the band’s most recent venue show in KC. Its last local appearance was a performance at Old Shawnee Days in 2017, and the 2019 Missouri State Fair in Sedalia is the closest the band has played since then. An absolute favorite of ours, Night Ranger is an act to never miss live in concert.…

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Toto “Dogz of Oz” Tour Hits Uptown Theater

By Live '80s Kansas City on February 26, 2023 Announcements

Uptown Theater Set to Host Toto on the Band’s “Dogz of Oz” Tour Legendary rock band Toto returns to Uptown Theater in Kansas City, MO with its “Dogz of Oz” tour on March 29. The group last performed there on September 27, 2019 and was set to return last year, but the date was postponed when it joined Journey on tour and appeared at T-Mobile Center instead. As a Kansas City favorite, fans are thrilled to get Toto back in town up close and personal on the nostalgic Uptown stage. This time around, the lineup will still feature Steve Lukather…

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