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Gary Allan
2025-10-24 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | The Stiefel Theatre, 151 S. Santa Fe, Salina, KS, 67401, United States
With the allure of a modern day outlaw, Gary Allan has won over fans, peers, and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals, rebellious lyrics, and raucous live performances. While becoming a force on the country music scene, Allan has remained true to his artistic voice each step of the way. The California native has released nine studio albums selling over 8 million albums, been certified platinum on three back-to-back albums, and been certified gold five times. Allan has five #1 hits on country radio and fourteen Top 10 hits to his credit. He has amassed over 2.8 billion total streams and has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart four times, along with his SET YOU FREE album debuting at the top of the Billboard 200 (Pop Chart). He is described as “dark and dreamy” in Entertainment Weekly, “soulful and rough around the edges” in Playboy, and deemed a “maverick” by Rolling Stone. He sells out venues as a headliner from NY to LA and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Live with Kelly and Michael, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also landed on the covers of Country Weekly, Pollstar, and People magazine.

Tyler Halverson
2025-10-23 20:00 - 23:00 | The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS, 66044, United States
More Hearts Than Horses Tour

Tracy Byrd
2025-10-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Prairie Band Casino & Resort, 12305 150th Rd., Mayetta, KS, 66509, United States
Tracy Byrd became a household name on the Country Music Scene in 1993 when his third single, called “Holdin’ Heaven”, off of his MCA Records, self-titled debut album, hit #1 on the Billboard Country Charts. Since that day Byrd has had 18 top ten hots, including songs like Don’t take Her She’s All I Got, Watermelon Crawl, I’m From the Country, Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo, and of course Academy of Country Music Song if the Year Keeper of the Stars, sold over 7 Million records, 4 Gold and a Double Platinum album, and played over 4000 shows.

Travis Tritt
2025-10-18 20:30 - 23:00 | Ameristar Kansas Ciy, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr., Kansas City, MO, 64161, United States
More than thirty-five years after Travis Tritt launched his music career, the Southern rock-influenced artist continues to sell-out shows and stay true and relevant to country music fans across the globe, live in the Star Pavilion at Ameristar Kansas City.

Marcus King Band
2025-10-14 20:00 - 23:00 | Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, KS, 66049, United States
With special guest Angel White

Molly Tuttle
2025-10-11 20:00 - 23:00 | Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, KS, 66049, United States
With support from Joshua Ray Walker

Deana Carter
2025-10-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64120, United States
Under 21 with Guardian

25th Anniversary Edition of the Groundbreaking 5X Platinum Debut Album
Did I Shave My Legs for This?
How many years has it been since you had your first taste of love? And how many years have you spent cherishing that love? It’s funny how those memories, they last.
For Deana Carter, who brought that very special kind of love to life in her debut single “Strawberry Wine,” it’s been 25 years. And now, she’s celebrating her 5X Platinum debut album from 1996 — Did I Shave My Legs for This? — with an anniversary reissue of remastered songs, plus two new tracks which Carter produced herself that feature country music’s brightest stars from several eras.
But before you can even think about that new release, you have to throw yourself back to the original one in the 90s, when women were all over the top of the charts, and newcomer Carter was able to waltz right in and reach No. 1 with “Strawberry Wine.” Her very first single off of her very first album went on to be named the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year and Song of the Year in 1997, as well as nominated for a GRAMMY and an Academy of Country Music award.
https://deana.com/

Keith Urban
2025-09-27 19:00 - 23:00 | CHI Health Center, 455 N. 10th St., Omaha, 68102, United States
The High and Alive World Tour With Special Guests Chase Matthew, Alana Springsteen and Karley Scott Collins.

Charles Wesley Godwin
2025-09-27 19:00 - 22:30 | Grinders KC, 1826 Locust St., Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
The Lonely Mountain Town Tour
w/ Kolton Moore & Clever Few
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
All-ages show

Shenandoah
2025-09-26 20:30 - 23:00 | Ameristar Kansas Ciy, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr., Kansas City, MO, 64161, United States
Shenandoah became known for delivering songs that celebrated the importance of faith and family while reveling in the joys of small town life. “Next to You, Next to Me” topped the charts for three weeks and “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart,” a beautiful duet with Alison Krauss, won a Country Music Association Award for Vocal Event of the year and a GRAMMY® for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Shenandoah also won the Academy of Country Music’s Vocal Group of the Year in 1991.

Jordan Davis
2025-09-26 19:00 - 23:00 | Cable Dahmer Arena, 19100 E. Valley View Parkway, Independence, KS, 640555, United States
With Special Guests Mitchell Tenpenny and Vincent Mason
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No oversized bags/backpacks permitted. (With the exception of Medical and Diaper Bags). https://cdarena.info/a-zguide
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Charles Wesley Godwin
2025-09-25 20:00 - 23:00 | The Cotillion, 11120 W. Kellogg St., Wichita, KS, 67209, United States
The Lonely Mountain Town Tour
With Special Guest Kolton Moore and the Clever Few
All Ages
Support acts subject to change.
Wear your Cotillion merch and jump to the front of the GA line. Coat check is open during events to check your coats, hats, merch and more. Coat check is located next to merch by the front doors. All sales are final. No exchanges or refunds unless a show is cancelled or postponed.
Following Charles Wesley Godwin’s 2023 critically acclaimed Family Ties — a highly personal, 17-song diary-like LP that was both universally praised and catapulted the West Virginian singer-songwriter to new heights in his career — the rising musician now returns with a stunning 7-track EP, Lonely Mountain Town, due out February 28, via Big Loud. A quieter, more contemplative affair than Family Ties, Lonely Mountain Town contains some of the most thrilling songs of Godwin’s career. Written principally on the road, Lonely Mountain Town is at its heart a collection of on-the-move snapshots and quiet moments in life set to tune: these are tales of a traditional country-songwriting mindset. Godwin worked on the EP with key collaborators, from his longtime producer, guitarist and bandmate, Al Torrence, to his Big Loud labelmate ERNEST (“Dead To Rights”), and even one of his musical heroes, Scott Avett (a cover of Jason Molina’s “Hammer Down”).
Godwin has been on a steady upward climb following his beloved debut album, 2019’s Seneca. Alongside his longtime band, the Allegheny High, the musician has developed a reputation as a thrilling and beautifully raucous live performer. In 2024, Godwin appeared on ESPN’s Sportscenter, performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS Saturday Sessions. He also made his Stagecoach and Bonnaroo debuts. This year, Godwin returns to the road for a slew of sold-out shows in conjunction with the release of Lonely Mountain Town.

Hailey Whitters with Special Guest Emily Nenni
2025-09-25 19:00 - 23:00 | Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64120, United States
Under 21 with guardian
Hailey Whitters has an endearing habit of suggesting she’s perennially late to the party. “I’ve always just felt like a late bloomer,” she says, with a sigh that turns into a laugh.
With the release of her debut album Black Sheep (October 2, 2015 via Carnival Music), Whitters proves she was well worth the wait. Produced by ace session guitarist Derek Wells, Black Sheep is a soulful collection that turns sad stories into bold celebrations of people society often shames, layered over honky tonk and rootsy rock.
“It’s been really therapeutic for me to put it out,” Whitters says of the album. “Just being able to know what I want to say and get that out to people has been cool on my end.”
Whitters grew up in Shueyville, Iowa, population just shy of 600. “It’s such a little town. It’s getting bigger, but we don’t even have a post office,” she says. “We have two bars, a wine cellar, and a church.”
The oldest of six children born to a large Catholic family, Whitters grew up a determined but unexpected artist, drawn to songs and singers but unsure why. “I didn’t grow up in a super musical family,” she says. “I just had a weird inkling to do music.” The Dixie Chicks, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, and other women who drove 90s country radio were her gateway heroines, which led to a deep dive into classic country, and ultimately, Americana storytellers such as Patty Griffin, John Prine, and Gillian Welch.
“I took my first trip to Nashville when I was 16 and fell in love,” Whitters says. “I immediately knew I wanted to move here.” A year later, she did. She also enrolled in college, and paid her proverbial dues as a nanny, waitress, and salon receptionist before signing with left-of-center lighthouse Carnival Music in 2012.
“When I was younger, I just mimicked people that I admired,” Whitters says. “I learned how to tell a story.” With an arresting voice effortlessly rooted in honky tonk’s long tradition of angelic sopranos who are equally comfortable mourning and raising hell, she has spent the last several years discovering that she has something of her own to say––along with a unique way to say it.
Whitters often writes and sings songs that detail the search for acceptance––of self or of others––sometimes dreamily, other times with rollicking irreverence. Features in No Depression and The Bluegrass Situation, a Daytrotter Session, several nods on 2016 artists-to-watch lists, and other praise have introduced her to a larger audience, who has responded with open arms. “I love to hear from people about how one of my songs has touched them. It just makes me feel like I’m doing something bigger than myself,” she says.
Black Sheep’s title track, written with the Wrights’ Adam Wright, moodily canvasses the rewards and frustrations of sticking out, and ultimately offers a defiant resolution keep going her own way. “I feel that way a lot, especially in this town,” she says. “To do what nobody’s doing…it’s kind of cool, fuel for the fire. It’s invigorating to be different.”
The guitar-soaked stroll “Late Bloomer” is an autobiographical ode to lollygagging in a variety of situations. “I was the oldest of six, so I was very naïve, I felt like,” she says. “But I finally came to accept that it’s actually okay to figure out who you are and what you want later in life.”
Whitters penned live-show standout “One More Hell” alone after her little brother was killed in a car accident. “He was 19. It was awful,” she says. “I went home to be with my family, and we went out West that summer. We had no plan, just got in the car and drove. It was really good being all together––we all just kind of disappeared for a month.” She sat down to write when she got back to Nashville, and “One More Hell” came quickly. “The first time I ever played it live, this stranger in the front row was bawling,” she says. “It’s a sad song, but it’s kind of a happy song, I always say––people just feel it.”
Whitters takes the only two songs on the album she didn’t write––“City Girl” and “Pocket Change”––and owns them confidently. Her blithe version of “City Girl,” written by the Wrights, was featured in the 2015 season ofNashville, while her interpretation of Mando Saenz’s indignant “Pocket Change” gives the song a droll feminine spin.
Written by Whitters alone, stunner “Low All Afternoon” takes pity on a jilted other woman. Forlorn but commiserative, the song tells a true story Whitters witnessed a friend endure. “I like to write without a hook in mind sometimes––to just let the song move toward what it’s trying to say,” she says. “That’s how I approached this one. For about three months, I’d work on it, leave it, and then come back to it. That was a luxury.”
Martina McBride heard “Low All Afternoon” and recorded the song for her upcoming album, gifting Whitters with the first cut of her career. When asked about song’s journey, Whitters is grateful and amazed. “They say this doesn’t happen much anymore––a song written alone, a waltz, a ballad––being cut,” she says. “I feel like I created something real and honest, and it’s been so rewarding.”
Lately, Whitters has taken to gigging all over the country. She joined the lineup at the 30A Songwriters Festival for the first time and makes her SXSW debut this spring. She’s opened shows for acts ranging from Randy Houser to Chris Knight, and is sincerely grateful for every opportunity. “I will play just about anywhere,” she says with a laugh. “There’s something about getting out on the road and traveling that I just love.”
Winning over a crowd delivers an inimitable high for Whitters, who relishes connecting live. “I love performing ‘One More Hell,’” she says. “You think no one’s listening, and then the middle of that song, you see them raise their beer glasses in the air and know that they’re listening and that you’re all on the same page.”
“I’m a risk taker,” Whitters says. “My friends always laugh because I’m kind of one extreme or the other. I’m not really a middle ground kind of person. You take these risks, and then the reward is just…” She trails off for a moment. “I feel like the part that feels so awesome about it afterwards is knowing that you were scared to do it, but then you did — and it paid off.”
https://haileywhitters.com/
Emily Nenni

Emily Nenni has a confession: she didn’t always plan on being a performing artist. “I thought I was just going to be a songwriter,” she admits. Clearly, life had something else in store. The singer and guitarist has emerged as one of the freshest and most electrifying voices in Nashville, with a sound rooted in classic honky-tonk and spiked with serious country, soul and rock ‘n’ roll fire, and sweet-and-sassy lyrics that chronicle hard living, hot nights, heartbreak and other universal truths about the human condition. Over the past several years she’s enraptured audiences across Music City with sizzling sets in smoky bars and clubs, honing her command of the stage, perfecting her skills as a band leader and sharpening an already astute world view, all of which are on full display on her newest studio album, Drive & Cry.The record is a marked departure from her previous full-length, 2022’s celebrated On the Ranch. Whereas that effort saw Nenni uproot herself to lend a hand – and write – while assisting at a ranch in southern Colorado, Drive & Cry drops the listener smack in the middle of her boisterous and bustling Nashville world. The album kicks off with “Get to Know Ya,” a honky-tonk rave-up that celebrates the end of the work day and the beginning of a music-filled, come-what-may night. Nenni busts out her biggest hoops, jumps into the jeans she can “really only stand up in,” and heads to the local bar. “Play ‘til the sun’ll come / when the daylight’s done,” she sings as the instrumental accompaniment races in step behind her.
From there, Nenni leads into “Greatest Hits,” a pedal-steel-inflected Dolly Parton-style number in which she tips her hat to underground honky-tonk venue Santa’s Pub, a dive bar squeezed inside a double-wide trailer that has become her home-away-from-home in Nashville. “When I first came to town, I was 21 and singing at clubs with folks who were twice my age,” Nenni recalls of moving to Music City from her native California. “Then a buddy of mine said, ‘There’s a place where people are making this music that are actually your age, and where you’d really fit in.’ And that was Santa’s Pub. It’s where I learned that music doesn’t have to be perfect – everybody is just having fun and there’s no judgment. You can show up however you’re feeling that night, have a good time and be surrounded by friends.”
A stellar cast of those friends stepped up to assist Nenni on Drive & Cry, beginning with producer John James Tourville of New West labelmates the Deslondes. “He brought in half the musicians and I brought in half,” Nenni says. “And he gave me so much space to make the record that I wanted to make.”
It’s a record that is her most personal to date. Save for an album-closing cover of Terry Allen’s classic “Amarillo Highway” (a staple of her Sunday-night sets at Santa’s), Nenni penned the remainder of the dozen tracks entirely on her own. “It’s the first time I’ve done that,” she says. “I had a few weeks alone at my house in Nashville, and I just sat with all my thoughts and feelings from the last couple years and put it all down. So this is an album that’s truly ‘me.’ ”
The results put the full range of Nenni’s singular musical voice on display, from the soaring “Changes,” influenced by her love of Sixties girl groups, to the swampy, strutting empowerment anthem “I Don’t Have to Like You,” in which she declares “I’m a grown-ass woman and I don’t trust a word you coo.” There’s also the Tina Turner homage “I Don’t Need You” (“Got my own boots to fill and you know I will,” Nenni assures), the wistful, late-night honky-tonk ode “We Sure Could Two Step,” and the playful title track, in which, over a tight country-funk groove, Nenni jokes, “Don’t you worry ‘bout me / I’m gonna have a bawl.” It’s a lighthearted lyric, but one that is, like everything on the album, true to Nenni’s life. “I do actually cry a fair bit, and I love to do it while I’m driving,” she admits.
Nenni will have plenty of opportunities for that in the near future, as she plans to take Drive & Cry on tour, far and wide. “I love to be on the road,” she says. “I love to be with my buds, I love to play shows, and I love to make people happy and make people cry with my music. That’s what truly makes me happy, too.”
Nenni laughs. “So I maybe never thought I’d be a performer, but I sure am glad that I am.
https://www.emilynenni.com/

Nittty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen & co-founder Les Thompson and friends "The Life I've Picked!"
2025-09-24 19:30 - 23:00 | Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64120, United States
Under 21 with Guardian

John McEuen, a Southern California Orange County high school student, he thought his teenage dream job in Disneyland’s Magic Shop (at 16 years old) was “as good as it gets”. He and lifelong high-school friend both got that 1963 job (magic shop co-worker, Steve Martin) and at 18 music came along. After seeing Missouri bluegrass group The Dillards, John headed towards his new dream: make magic with music, and get on the radio. Leaving Garden Grove for Hollywood, dream became a reality more than imagined it could be!
Continually performing since 1964, he joined Les Thompson in 1966 as they put together the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a relationship that would last 50 years – over 11,000 concerts, 300 television shows, 10,000 interviews.
In 1971, John initiated the landmark Will the Circle be Unbroken* album by asking musical mentors Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson to record with NGDB; then, his brother Bill (manager, record producer) invited Merle Travis. It grew, with Earl’s help, to inviting Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuff, ‘Bashful’ Brother Oswald, Vassar Clements, and Norman Blake to a Nashville studio, hooking them up with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, for 5 magic hot August days of recording. (John is featured in episode 6 of Ken Burns – Country Music). The now multi-platinum “Circle” is honored both by Library of Congress and the Grammy Hall of Fame. * “One of the most important records to come out of Nashville…” Chet Flippo, Rolling Stone
In 2010, Folk Alliance Organization presented McEuen the Best in the West Award solo performer; hia rich history preserving original and traditional folk music earned the 2013 Charlie Poole Lifetime Achievement Award.
NGDB was inducted in to Colorado Music Hall of Fame 2015. In addition to John’s numerous solo accolades, Multi-instrumentalist McEuen (banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, piano, dulcimer), recognized as a founding member and outstanding performer, departed the end of the 50th year anniversary tour Oct. 22, 2017. He covers it all in his highly praised book The Life I’ve Picked on Chicago Review Press, published April, 2018.
McEuen has made over 46 albums (7 solo) that have earned CMA and ACM awards, an Emmy film score nomination, IBMA record of the year award, five platinum and six gold records, multiple Grammy Awards and nominations, and performed on another 25 albums as guest artist. John’s production of Steve Martin – The Crow won the 2010 Best Bluegrass Album Grammy.
https://www.johnmceuen.com/

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
2025-09-19 20:30 - 23:00 | Ameristar Kansas Ciy, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr., Kansas City, MO, 64161, United States
Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy-winner, and AMA Lifetime Achievement honoree Marty Stuart picks up where he left off on Altitude, his first new album in five years, exploring a cosmic country landscape populated by dreamers and drifters, misfits and angels, honky-tonk heroes and lonesome lovers. While it would be easy for an artist as accomplished as Stuart to rest on his laurels, Altitude instead showcases the work of a searcher with an insatiable appetite for growth and reflection, one whose ambition, much like his keen wit and rich imagination, only seems to grow with each and every release.

The Red Clay Strays
2025-09-19 20:00 - 23:00 | Cable Dahmer Arena, 19100 E. Valley View Parkway, Independence, KS, 640555, United States
We are a cashless venue.
No oversized bags/backpacks permitted. (With the exception of Medical and Diaper Bags). https://cdarena.info/a-zguide
Pre Party Destination at Carmen’s Cantina and Mexican Grill
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Kolby Cooper
2025-09-18 20:00 - 23:00 | The Cotillion, 11120 W. Kellogg St., Wichita, KS, 67209, United States
Love You, Goodnight Tour
with Special Guest Luke Borchelt
All Ages
Support acts subject to change.
Wear your Cotillion merch and jump to the front of the GA line. A limited number of table reservations are available by calling 316-722-4201 or in person at The Cotillion. Coat check is open during events to check your coats, hats, merch and more. Coat check is located next to merch by the front doors. All sales are final. No exchanges or refunds unless a show is cancelled or postponed.

McCain Performance Series: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
2025-09-18 19:30 - 21:30 | McCain Auditorium, 1501 Goldstein Circle, Manhattan, KS, 66502, United States
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Marty Stuart got his start in bluegrass legend Lester Flatts’ band at the tender age of 13, and by 21, he was recording and touring with Johnny Cash. Across 40-plus years as a solo artist, he has released more than 20 major label albums, scoring platinum sales,hit singles, and a host of honors including five Grammy wins and membership in theCountry Music Hall of Fame. Known for their honky-tonk and rockabilly edge, Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives– guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and bassist Chris Scruggs — are Musicians Hall of Fame inductees.
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives are offering a limited exclusive VIP event open to any ticket holder of this show. This event requires a separate ticket purchase and is available as an add-on event on the ticket order form. The cost of this event is $150 plus sales tax and applicable fees. This event does not include a seat to the show.
“THE COUNTRY STAR” VIP PACKAGE includes:

Admission to a private pre-show event featuring a two-song performance by Marty and the Superlatives, along with a question and answer storytelling session with Marty and the band.
One (1) VIP laminate and lanyard.
Crowd-free merchandise shopping
One (1) special edition poster

Sara Morgan & Kelly Hunt
2025-09-12 20:00 - 23:00 | Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64120, United States
Under 21 with Guardian
Sara Morgan
Sara Morgan has been dazzling country music listeners “in the know” for nearly a decade, according to “Saving Country Music”. From the small town of McGehee, Arkansas all the way to WSM 650 AM in Nashville, TN, she has “taken the stairs” on her journey as she meticulously climbed each step while enchanting audiences across America along the way.
Sara emerged in 2018 with her first full length release “Average Jane” at #3 on the Billboard Heatseeker chart and a review of the lead single “The Boots” in Music Row magazine. A triple threat in that she can play, sing, and write, Rolling Stone’s senior editor, Joseph Hudak, dubbed her “one to watch” in 2019 with the release of her first Nashville single, “Church in a Bar” after seeing her perform the song at the Americana Music Fest that year.
“Church in a Bar” was produced by critically acclaimed mastering engineer, Eric Conn and recorded at the legendary Allentown Recording Studio (Garth Brooks’ studio formerly known as Jack’s Tracks) with legendary musicians Eddie Bayers, Steve Gibson, Dan Dugmore and the late, great Michael Rhodes. Her very first Nashville recording session was star studded and each of her tracks were recorded live right alongside each of those musicians.
The release of the live track, “American Hill”, in 2022, a tribute to her late sailor brother, resulted in her being requested specifically for veterans benefits, as she is as passionate about supporting American veterans as she is about country music.
Sara has opened for everyone from Ray Wylie Hubbard and John Michael Montgomery to the Eli Young Band, played theaters and arenas, personally frequented hundreds of radio stations, and is set to cement her place in country music this fall with the upcoming single “She Ain’t the Homewrecker (That’s You)”.

https://saramorganmusic.com/
Kelly Hunt
On the walls of any local used music shop there hangs a gallery of mysteries. Picked up and handed down across the decades, each instrument contains the imprints and stories of those who have played it before, most of which remain untold. For Kansas City-based songwriter Kelly Hunt, the most intriguing of these stories is the origin of her anonymous calfskin tenor banjo. “I really wasn’t looking for it,” she says, “but I opened up the case and found a note saying, ‘This banjo was played by a man named Ira Tamm in his dog and pony show from 1920 to 1935.’ It was unlike any banjo I’d ever heard…so warm and mellow, with an almost harp-like quality to it, very soulful”—apt words for the Memphis native’s debut album, Even The Sparrow, which was released in May 2019 and nominated for the International Folk Music Awards “2019 Album of the Year.”
The daughter of an opera singer and a saxophonist, Hunt was raised in Memphis, TN amidst a motley mélange of musical influences ranging from Rachmaninov to Joni Mitchell to Mississippi John Hurt. She grew up singing in choirs, poring over poetry books, and writing her own music as a matter of course, first on piano then 5-string banjo. After being introduced to the banjo in college while studying French and visual arts, Hunt began to develop her own improvised style of playing, combining old-time picking styles with the percussive origins of the instrument. After college, Hunt embarked on a rambling path through career pursuits in farming, French breadmaking, and visual arts, ultimately landing in Kansas City, where she would go on to write and record Even the Sparrow.
This debut work displays Hunt’s penchant for storytelling and intriguing arrangement, punctuated by articulate melodies and lyrical deft. While reminiscent of modern traditionalists such as Gillian Welch, Even The Sparrow reveals an ineffable quality that hovers beyond the constraints of genre, à la Anais Mitchell and Patty Griffin. Over the span of a dozen songs, Hunt’s penchant for storytelling and intriguing arrangement cast a spell which No Depression describes as “the musical equivalent of a book you can’t put down, one you’ll want to revisit again and again to catch every nuance and turn of phrase.”
In “Men of Blue & Grey,” what begins as a Reconstruction-era ballad about the repurposing of Civil War glass plate negatives in a greenhouse roof soon becomes a meditation on the hope that growth and life may one day be able to emerge from the ruins of suffering and haunting of violence. “Across The Great Divide” turns an otherwise traditional accounting of spurned love into a philosophical epic of the ethics offorgiveness and freedom, evoking the ideas of Søren Kierkegaard and Walt Whitman.
As for the original owner of Kelly Hunt’s mysterious tenor banjo, not much is known. “I’ve never been able to find anything about Ira Tamm,” she says, “I think he just had a humble little traveling show.” What’s clear is that the itinerant performer laid down his banjo at the height of the Great Depression, almost eighty years before it would be picked up by Hunt. “That banjo has stories. I wish I knew them all,” says Hunt, though the banjo’s most intriguing story may just be beginning with Even The Sparrow. “The marks of Ira’s hands are still in the calfskin head, so I can see where he played and left his mark,” she says. “Now my own marks are there too, in different places, like a kind of portrait.”
Production is currently underway on Kelly’s sophomore album “Ozark Symphony,” produced by Dirk Powell at his Cypress House Studio in St. Martinville, LA.
https://www.kellyhuntmusic.com/

Kolby Cooper
2025-09-12 08:00 - 23:00 | Power And Light, 13 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64106, United States
Doors Open 6PM | Show 8PM

Join us for a live performance from Kolby Cooper at PBR Big Sky in Kansas City on Friday, September 12.
Must be 21+ to attend.

Still hailing from East Texas, Kolby Cooper is raising his 3 children with his high school sweetheart and wife, Jillian. After releasing his critically acclaimed album “Boy From Anderson County To The Moon”, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut. Marking 4 years in the music business. In that time, he’s garnered millions of streams and sold out shows across the country. The prolific songwriter has an uncanny ability to turn his and his friends’ life stories into relatable songs his rabidly zealous fanbase can’t get enough of. Kolby’s latest release through BBR Music / Wheelhouse Records in partnership with Combustion Music “Kill Me” is an in your face anthem with epic vocals and fiery instruments. This is a new era of Kolby Cooper music.

Trey Lewis with Special Guest Hayden Haddock
2025-09-11 19:30 - 23:00 | Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64120, United States
Under 21 with Guardian
With a pair of homegrown hits behind him and plenty more in the tank,
Sony Music Publishing singer-songwriter Trey Lewis has emerged as the
straight-talking, salt-of-the-earth hero country fans crave. A Birmingham,
Alabama native known for breaking country’s unspoken rules, he’s spent 12
years on the road perfecting a gritty mix of contemporary country and
Southern rock—turning his call-it-like-I-see-it attitude into song.
After his breakout smash, “Dicked Down In Dallas,” went viral in 2020, the
cheating anthem with a modern punch became an organic Number One on
iTunes, amassing more than 500 million streams and making Lewis a
nationwide force. He followed up in 2022 with another self-made iTunes
Number One—the back-in-the-saddle anthem, “Single Again”—and has
continued building a reputation for fusing country horsepower with
refreshing honesty and a troubadour’s wit.
Now, that reputation expands as a bigger picture comes into focus. A
perennial underdog and relentless road warrior, Lewis showcases his true
character and artistry on his newest single Ain’t Sober. With each track he
puts out, he proves that country music could use a few more bold
storytellers like him.
Meanwhile, the rising star keeps his foot on the gas, maintaining a
relentless tour schedule. More information is available at
https://treylewismusic.com/

Bulls, Bands, & Barrels feat. Treaty Oak Revival
2025-08-16 18:30 - 22:00 | Intrust Bank Arena, 500 E. Waterman, Wichita, KS, 67202, United States
Bulls, Bands, & Barrels (BBB) is the ultimate fusion of western sports and live country music. Fans can expect a full-throttle evening featuring the best in professional bull riding, lightning-fast barrel racing, and the heart-pounding thrills of American freestyle bull fighting. Once the dust settles, the party kicks into high gear with a live concert featuring rising country star Dylan Wheeler followed by headliners Treaty Oak Revival, one of the hottest bands in the Texas/Red Dirt scene.

Hardy – The Jim Bob World Tour
2025-08-14 18:30 - 23:00 | T-Mobile Center, 1407 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64106, United States
Hardy – The Jim Bob World Tour @ T-Mobile Center
Hardy will make a stop at T-Mobile Center on Aug. 14 on his Jim Bob World Tour with special guests Koe Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr. and Sikarus. Fans can expect high-energy performances, intimate acoustic sets, and audience interaction during songs like “Truck Bed,” “Signed, Sober You,” and “Boots”.

Aaron Watson
2025-08-14 17:00 - 23:00 | Power And Light, 13 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64106, United States
