America’s Iconic Classic Rock Band “KANSAS” is Performing Live at Prairie Band Casino and Resort
Classic rock band “KANSAS” is performing live at Prairie Band Casino & Resort in Mayetta, Kansas,
on September 23, 2021.
With a legendary career spanning nearly five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one
of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album
in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to
sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Composing a catalogue that includes sixteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has
produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return,
Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), one quadruple-Platinum single
‘Carry On Wayward Son,’ and another triple-Platinum single ‘Dust in the Wind.’ KANSAS appeared
on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s and played to sold-out
arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. ‘Carry On Wayward Son’
continues to be one of the top five most played songs on classic rock radio, and ‘Dust In the Wind’
has been played on the radio more than three million times!
The summer of 2020 marked the release of “The Absence of Presence,” KANSAS’s sixteenth studio
album, which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart. The wide-ranging
progressive rock album, released by InsideOut Music, follows-up 2016’s “The Prelude Implicit,”
which debuted at #14 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.
Throughout 2016-2017, the band celebrated the anniversary of breakout album “Leftoverture” with
the highly successful KANSAS: Leftoverture 40th Anniversary Tour. That tour was released in 2017
as a live album, “Leftoverture Live & Beyond.” Since 2018, KANSAS has followed that tour with the
even more successful KANSAS: Point of Know Return Anniversary Tour. That tour was captured as
a 2021 live album, “Point of Know Return Live and Beyond.”
The band is currently comprised of original drummer Phil Ehart, bassist/vocalist Billy Greer,
vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt, violinist/guitarist David Ragsdale, keyboardist/vocalist Tom
Brislin, and original guitarist Richard Williams. With no signs of slowing down, KANSAS continues
to perform in front of large and enthusiastic audiences around the world.
Along with constant touring, KANSAS continues to remain a fixture of Classic Rock radio. The band
has reached a whole new audience through their unmistakable presence on the popular video
games Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Grand Theft Auto; the band’s documentary film “KANSAS:
Miracles Out of Nowhere” airing on AXSTV; and through their songs’ inclusion in various television
shows such as ‘Supernatural,’ ‘South Park,’ ‘The Office,’ and ‘The Simpsons;’ and with films including
‘Old School,’ ‘Anchorman,’ and ‘Happy Gilmore.’
