Kansas City

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (nine counties) and Kansas (five counties). The 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) 2024 estimated census calculated a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

We♥KC! June 22-30, 2024 Upcoming concerts / shows (Kansas City / Lawrence, KS)

Taking through the end of June, with a good variety of shows below. The Tony Awards recently aired, to give an idea of what Broadway touring shows might hit the road in the future (The Outsiders, Merrily We Roll Along) and veteran Country artist George Strait just broke the concert attendance record, playing to almost 111,000 fans in Texas, with his new album, Cowboys and Dreamers out Sept 6.

Missing at recordBar, Kansas City MO (2024-06-13)

New Orleans Gothic rock support band Missing had traveled separately and were in town and set up, so took the stage to perform their thirty-five-minute set, as they normally would have. To the crowd that remained despite the bad news of the headliner, it was a positive experience to see the band play live, for their first time in Kansas City.