Kansas Announces Massive 50th Anniversary Tour

Kansas 50th Anniversary Tour

Kansas is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a huge North American tour that will take them into 2024. The tour, which will be called “Another Fork in the Road,” will feature music from their entire catalog, including hits like “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind,” as well as deeper cuts.

“Our entire career has been a winding journey,” guitarist and original member Richard Williams. “Whether it’s been the ‘original’ lineup signing with Don Kirshner, years on the bus, touring with Queen, worldwide success peaking with ‘Leftoverture’ and ‘Point of Know Return,’ the valleys of the ’90s and ‘dinosaur bands’ losing steam, various lineup changes, to our most recent ‘rebirth’ and success of our latest new music over the last eight years; there have been several forks in the road of that journey. This 50th Anniversary Tour and release will represent that journey and the forks along that road.”

The tour will kick off in June following their “Classics” tour that wraps in May. Things begin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 2nd and will work their way all the way across the U.S. and circle back across the South to end in Florida in January.

The current lineup for the band features original drummer Phil Ehart, vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt, violinist/guitarist David Ragsdale, keyboardist/vocalist Tom Brislin, original guitarist Richard Williams, and bassist/vocalist Billy Greer. Greer first joined the fold during the band’s 1985 reformation and has stayed ever since.

Kansas Classics Tour Dates:

DateLocationVenue
MarTampa, FLBusch Gardens
MarShawnee, OKHeart of Oklahoma Exposition Center
MarWinterhaven, CAQuechan Casino
MarPala, CAPala Casino
MarQueen Creek, AZThe Good Life Festival
Apr 1Lincoln, CAThunder Valley Casino Resort with Blue Oyster Cult
Apr 20Marion, ILMarion Cultural & Civic Center
Apr 22Forrest City, AREACC Fine Arts Center
May 19Decatur, ILThe Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater
May 21Louisville, KYIroquois Amphitheater

Kansas 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Confirmed Dates*:

DateLocationVenue
Jun 2, 2023Pittsburgh, PABenedum Center for the Performing Arts
Jun 3, 2023Baltimore, MDThe Lyric Baltimore
Jun 9, 2023Glenside, PAKeswick Theatre
Jun 10, 2023Glenside, PAKeswick Theatre
Jun 16, 2023Fort Wayne, INEmbassy Theatre
Jun 17, 2023Detroit, MIFisher Theatre
Jun 29, 2023Toronto, ONMassey Hall
Jul 1, 2023Rochester, NYKodak Center
Jul 7, 2023Cincinnati, OHTaft Theatre
Jul 8, 2023Indianapolis, INClowes Memorial Hall
Jul 14, 2023Minneapolis, MNState Theatre
Jul 15, 2023Chicago, ILThe Chicago Theatre
Jul 21, 2023Wausau, WIThe Grand Theater
Jul 22, 2023Milwaukee, WIThe Riverside Theater
Jul 27, 2023Kansas City, MOThe Midland Theatre
Jul 29, 2023St. Louis, MOThe Fabulous Fox Theatre
Aug 4, 2023Des Moines, IAHoyt Sherman Place
Aug 5, 2023Omaha, NEOrpheum Theater
Aug 18, 2023Knoxville, TNTennessee Theatre
Aug 19, 2023Nashville, TNRyman Auditorium
Aug 25, 2023Denver, COThe Paramount Theatre
Aug 26, 2023Salt Lake City, UTEccles Theater
Sep 6, 2023Vancouver, BCQueen Elizabeth Theatre
Sep 8, 2023Seattle, WAThe Paramount Theater
Sep 9, 2023Portland, ORArlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Sep 12, 2023Boise, IDMorrison Center for the Performing Arts
Sep 14, 2023San Francisco, CAGolden Gate Theatre
Sep 16, 2023Los Angeles, CAThe Orpheum Theatre
Sep 17, 2023San Diego, CABalboa Theatre
Sep 20, 2023To Be AnnouncedTBA
Sep 22, 2023Albuquerque, NMKiva Auditorium
Sep 24, 2023El Paso, TXThe Plaza Theatre
Oct 12, 2023Worcester, MAThe Hanover Theatre
Oct 13, 2023Brookville, NYTilles Center for the Performing Arts
Oct 20, 2023San Antonio, TXTobin Center for the Performing Arts
Oct 21, 2023Sugar Land, TXSmart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
Oct 26, 2023Huntsville, ALVon Braun Center – Mark C. Smith Concert Hall
Oct 27, 2023Memphis, TNOrpheum Theatre
Nov 3, 2023Charlotte, NCOvens Auditorium
Nov 4, 2023Durham, NCDurham Performing Arts Center
Dec 1, 2023Savannah, GAJohnny Mercer Theatre
Dec 2, 2023Atlanta, GAFox Theatre
Jan 12, 2024Jacksonville, FLFlorida Theatre
Jan 13, 2024North Charleston, SCNorth Charleston Performing Arts Center
Jan 19, 2024Fort Myers, FLBarbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
Jan 20, 2024Clearwater, FLRuth Eckerd Hall
Jan 27, 2024Melbourne, FLMaxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts
Jan 28, 2024Fort Lauderdale, FLBroward Center for the Performing Arts

*Two additional dates to be announced

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