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Name: Ace Frehley
Start: 2025-06-28T20:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-06-28T23:00:00-06:00
Location: Ameristar Casino

Follow the Live ’80s Kansas City concert blog featuring ’80s music performances of artists and bands appearing at Kansas City music venues and other live event locations in the surrounding area.

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Foreigner “Greatest Hits” Concert in Park City

By Live '80s Kansas City on August 12, 2021 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Foreigner Performed Live at Hartman Arena in Park City on August 7, 2021 It simply is not summer without seeing Foreigner live! It is tradition and something we just cannot do without. After all, we consider Foreigner as “our” band. With the music industry hiatus of 2020 behind us, the group finally returned to the road with its “Greatest Hits” tour hitting several cities for the first time ever. Hartman Arena in the Wichita suburb of Park City, KS hosted the charismatic rockers on August 7, 2021. The long-awaited night was the first post-pandemic concert for most of the fans…

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Steve Earle Live at Knuckleheads Saloon

By Live '80s Kansas City on July 10, 2021 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Steve Earle & The Dukes 2021 Summer Tour Came to Knuckleheads Saloon Country rock superstar Steve Earle & The Dukes brought the band’s summer concert tour to Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City, MO on June 11, 2021. The 3-time Grammy Award winner and recent Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee is out on the road in support of his new album “J.T.,” a tribute to his late son Justin Townes Earle with whom he regularly collaborated. Wielding his symbolic harmonica plus acoustic and electric guitars, he and the group ravished a sold out crowd with that unprecedented brand of outlaw…

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Styx & Collective Soul Live at Azura Amp

By Live '80s Kansas City on July 2, 2021 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Newly Named Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS featured Styx & Collective Soul on June 25, 2021 The long-awaited comeback of a major live ’80s music concert tour to the Kansas City area finally arrived when legendary rock band Styx strolled into Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS with Collective Soul on June 25, 2021. Promoted by Mammoth, it was the fifth showing of their 8-date trek together through the Midwest in promotion of the brand new “Crash of the Crown” album. Literally dubbed “The Return” tour, it electrified and surmounted any and all expectations that fans imagined. Towing alongside…

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Little River Band Live in Jefferson City

By Live '80s Kansas City on June 11, 2021 Concert Blog, Photo Review

New Riverside Park Amphitheater featured LRB on June 4, 2021 Live music is back and fervently prospering in Jefferson City, MO thanks to the newly renovated Capital Region MU Health Care Amphitheater at Riverside Park. Breaking ground amid the pandemic, the city decided to give the community exactly what it wanted, and right on time too. Upon reopening, legendary rock group Little River Band performed live in its second ever concert on June 4, 2021—now officially “Little River Band Day” in the River City as declared by Mayor Tergin. A staple on the Kansas City music scene, Little River Band…

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The Quireboys Live at Aftershock

By Live '80s Kansas City on March 20, 2020 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Aftershock Featured The Quireboys Live in Concert on March 8, 2020 A modest crowd of approximately 35 people got the show of a lifetime when iconic English rock band The Quireboys performed at the Aftershock live music venue in Merriam, KS on March 8, 2020. Fronted by founder Spike, the blues rockers tore the house down in celebration of the their 35th anniversary with everything from the late-’80s classics to tunes off the brand new album, “Amazing Disgrace” (2019). Just like three and a half decades ago, Spike was a ball of energy thrashing across the stage. Even with limited…

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Shooting Star Live at Star Pavilion

By Live '80s Kansas City on November 30, 2019 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Ameristar Featured Shooting Star at Star Pavilion on November 23, 2019 Kansas City’s very own legendary rock band Shooting Star performed live in concert for the second time this year at Ameristar Casino’s Star Pavilion on November 23, 2019. The band previously played the venue on January 19, its first show in three and a half years and the first since the passing Van McLain. Featuring founding member Steve Thomas (drums), classic member Dennis Laffoon (keyboards), frontman Todd Pettygrove, violin player Janet Jameson and guitarist Chet Galloway, the band continues to carry on the legacy of the late great singer-songwriter,…

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The Bacon Brothers Live at Folly Theater

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 23, 2019 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Knuckleheads Presented The Bacon Brothers Live at the Folly Theater on October 8, 2019 Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael—country and folk rock duo The Bacon Brothers—performed live at Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City, MO on October 8, 2019. In presentation by Knuckleheads, the concert featured the captivating duo on “The Shaky Ground” tour supporting their newly released eponymous record and its single, “Play.” Local favorite and Knuckleheads Saloon regular The Nace Brothers opened the night with a rousing stripped down performance to liven the crowd. The Bacon Brothers have performed together almost all of their lives, though it…

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Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin at Kauffman Center

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 21, 2019 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Kauffman Center Presents Featured Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin on October 10, 2019 Acclaimed singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin performed live in concert at the coveted Helzberg Hall inside of Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Kansas City, MO on October 10, 2019. Bestowing a 30-plus year friendship, the duo shared stories while treating fans to acoustic renditions of each others’ songs, as well as some of their favorites. Having played with her full band and the Kansas City symphony on separate occasions, Carpenter is certainly no stranger to the Kauffman Center. She was welcomed…

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Boyz II Men Live at Kauffman Center

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 9, 2019 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Kauffman Center Presents Featured Boyz II Men Live on October 2, 2019 The best-selling R&B group of all time returned to Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown KCMO on October 2, 2019. The renown trio last appeared alongside the Kansas City symphony on October 30, 2016 inside of the acclaimed Helzberg Hall. This time, however, Kauffman Center Presents featured Boyz II Men as a part of the pop series at the equally coveted Muriel Kauffman Theatre. It was a match made in Heaven. Built with absolute precision for the most perfect acoustics, the venue seemed as if it…

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Toto “40 Trips Around the Sun” at Uptown Theater

By Live '80s Kansas City on October 4, 2019 Concert Blog, Photo Review

Uptown Theater Presented Toto Live in Concert on September 27, 2019 As the “40 Trips Around the Sun” tour took its final turn, legendary rock band Toto made one last swing through Kansas City with a live concert performance at Uptown Theater on September 27, 2019. Blessing us with back-to-back stops in town after several years away, the crew delivered the most nostalgic night imaginable. The band and the music combined with the perfect setting transported multiple generations of fans to a whole other place and time. Led by the founders Steve Lukather (guitar/vocals) and Steve Porcaro (keywords), Toto featured…

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