BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3099@mariettaohio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T213000 DTSTAMP:20260521T144320Z URL:https://mariettaohio.org/events/peoples-bank-theatre-presents-kansas/ SUMMARY:Peoples Bank Theatre Presents: Kansas DESCRIPTION:With a legendary career spanning five decades\, KANSAS has firm ly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. Thi s “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after b eing discovered by Wally Gold\, who worked for Don Kirshner\, and have gon e on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.\n\nComposing a catalog ue that includes sixteen studio albums and five live albums\, KANSAS has p roduced 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\,’ an d another triple-Platinum single ‘Dust in the Wind.’ KANSAS appeared o n the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the ‘70’s and ‘ 80’s 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 Win d’ has been played on the radio more than three million times!\n\nThe su mmer of 2020 marked the release of “The Absence of Presence\,” KANSAS ’s sixteenth studio album\, which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Cu rrent Albums chart. The wide-ranging progressive rock album\, released by InsideOut Music\, follows-up 2016’s “The Prelude Implicit\,” which d ebuted at #14 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.\n\nThroughout 2016-20 22\, the band celebrated the anniversaries of multi-Platinum breakout albu ms “Leftoverture” and “Point of Know Return” with anniversary tour s for both albums. Both tours were commemorated with live album releases “Leftoverture Live &\; Beyond” (2017) &\; “Point of Know Retur n Live &\; Beyond” (2021).\n\nThe band\, which is currently comprised of vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt\, keyboardist/vocalist Tom Brislin\, guitarist Zak Rizvi\, guitarist Scott Bernard\, violinist/guitarist Joe D eninzon\, bassist/vocalist Dan McGowan\, original guitarist Richard Willia ms\, and original drummer Phil Ehart. Eric Holmquist performs on drums whi le Phil Ehart continues to recover from a major heart attack. KANSAS conti nues to energize audiences with their powerful live performances.\n\nAlong with constant touring\, KANSAS continues to remain a fixture of Classic R ock radio and popular culture. The band continues to reach a whole new aud ience through their unmistakable presence in various commercials\, live sp orts broadcasts\, popular video games Rock Band\, Guitar Hero\, and Grand Theft Auto\; the band’s documentary film “KANSAS: Miracles Out of Nowh ere\,” and a guest appearance on The CW’s television show ‘Walker. ’ The band’s songs have also been included in various television shows such as ‘Supernatural\,’ ‘Reacher\,’ ‘All Elite Wrestling\,’ ‘South Park\,’ ‘The Office\,’ and ‘The Simpsons\;’ as well as blockbuster films including ‘Old School\,’ ‘The Suicide Squad\,’ ‘Anchorman\,’ ‘Pitch Perfect\,’ ‘Happy Gilmore\,’ and ‘Happy Gilmore 2.’ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mariettaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026 /05/Peoples-Bank-Theatre.png CATEGORIES:Live Music LOCATION:Peoples Bank Theatre\, 222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, U nited States GEO:39.415852;-81.453433 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Peoples Bank Theat re:geo:39.415852,-81.453433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR