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Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
has had a vibrant
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and bluegrass scene. The
Country Stampede Music Festival The Country Stampede Music Festival is an outdoor country music and camping festival held at Heartland Motorsports Park, south of Topeka, Kansas. The festival has been held annually since 1996, historically on the last weekend in June (except in 2 ...
– one of the largest music festivals in the country – and the bluegrass/acoustic Walnut Valley Festival are testament to the continued popularity of these music genres in the state. Among current leading country artists,
Martina McBride Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material. McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocat ...
and Chely Wright are natives of Kansas. The state has also fostered some
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acts – the one that is most associated with the state is almost certainly the band called
Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
. Some famous and pioneering
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
musicians also had roots in Kansas.


History

The first music performed in the area that is now Kansas was that of the
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who lived there. The earliest documented music comes after settlement by Anglo-Americans in the 1850s. One of the first musical works relating to Kansas wa
"Ho! For the Kansas Plains"
a song written by James G. Clark in the 1850s, which mythologized the territory as the site of abolitionist battles during the Bleeding Kansas era. A representative lyric was "Ho! For the Kansas plains; Where men shall live in liberty; Free from the tyrant's chains." Along the same lines, some versions of the famous
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marching song " John Brown's Body" refer to John Brown's abolitionist activities in Kansas Territory during the same era. Following the Civil War, as Kansas became known more for its cowboys, saloons and wide-open spaces, another notable song written in and about Kansas was " Home on the Range". It was penned in the state in the 1870s, and then spread throughout the
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as an unofficial anthem. It is now Kansas's official
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. The song established something of a template for Kansas music, and over the next several decades, music coming from Kansas remained in a similar folk or
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style, while lyrics referencing the state tended to focus on its open countryside. Composer and musician
Nathaniel Clark Smith Nathaniel Clark Smith (often Major N. Clark Smith; July 31, 1877 – October 8, 1935) was an important African-American musician, composer, and music educator in the United States during the early decades of the 1900s. Born on the Army base at Fort ...
, born at
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, was an important music educator in the early 1900s. In the 1920s, the Kansas City jazz scene developed in eastern Kansas. Coleman Hawkins, who introduced the
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to jazz, was raised in Topeka, and began touring in eastern Kansas by 1918 (at the age of 14). Singer Ada Brown was born in Kansas City. Drummer
Kansas Fields Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields (December 5, 1915, Chapman, Kansas – March 7, 1995, Chicago, Illinois) was an American jazz drummer. Fields played in Chicago from the late 1920s, and worked with King Kolax and Jimmie Noone in the 1930s. In 194 ...
was born in
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. Pianist, singer, and bandleader
Joe Sanders Joseph L. Sanders (October 26, 1896, Thayer, Kansas - May 14, 1965, Kansas City, Missouri) was an American jazz pianist, singer, and band leader associated with Kansas City jazz for most of his career. Sanders was best known for co-leading the ...
was born in
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. Harpist
Betty Glamann Betty Glamann Voorhees (May 21, 1923 – September 3, 1990) was an American jazz harpist. She was born in Wellington, Kansas. Glamann learned to play harp at the age of ten. She attended a College or university school of music, conservatory a ...
was born in
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. Singer and composer
Nora Holt Nora Douglas Holt (November 8, 1884 or 1885 – January 25, 1974) was a singer, composer and music critic, who was born in Kansas and was the first African American to receive a master's degree in music in the United States. She composed more t ...
, a figure in the
Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the t ...
, was born in
Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of the ...
. Choral conductor Eva Jessye, a contemporary of Holt, was born in
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. In the following years, Kansas native
Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...
(d. 1955, buried near Kansas City, MO) also came to prominence in Kansas City. Around the same time, Kansan Stan Kenton likewise became notable as a jazz band leader and pianist. Pianist
Jesse Stone Jesse Albert Stone (November 16, 1901 – April 1, 1999) was an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres. He also used the pseudonyms Charles Calhoun and Chuck Calhoun. His best-know ...
was born in
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. Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson was born in Lawrence. Outsider musician and composer
Moondog Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his ...
was born in Marysville. Joe Walsh of
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and
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fame is a native of Wichita, although he spent his youth in Columbus, Ohio.
Melissa Etheridge Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist. Her eponymous debut album was released in 1988 and became an underground success. It peaked at No. 22 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and its lead ...
and
Katrina Leskanich Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich ( ; born April 10, 1960) is an American musician and the former lead singer of the pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Their song " Walking on Sunshine" was an international hit in 1985. In 1997, the band won the ...
(lead singer for
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) are also native Kansans.
Gene Clark Harold Eugene Clark (November 17, 1944 – May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best ...
, founding member of
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, attended high school in Bonner Springs and began performing in the state. Dawayne Bailey, a native of Manhattan, Kansas, toured and recorded with Detroit rock legend
Bob Seger Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, break ...
.
Stanley Sheldon Stanley Sheldon (born September 19, 1950) is an American bass guitar player best known for his work with Peter Frampton.Allmusic performance credits page/ref> He is notable as an early adopter of the fretless bass for rock music. Sheldon was ...
, a bassist from
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, played with UK rocker
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at the height of his career in the mid-1970s, including the top selling '' Frampton Comes Alive!''. Sheldon contributed as both bassist and songwriter on Frampton's instrumental album ''Fingerprints'', which was a Grammy winner in 2007. Sheldon went on to perform with Mid-west rocker
Warren Zevon Warren William Zevon (; January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. Zevon's most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and " Roland the Headless Tho ...
and other famous rock musicians.
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and
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winning guitarist
Phil Keaggy Philip Tyler Keaggy (born March 23, 1951) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 55 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. H ...
was a resident of Leawood in the 1980s.
Jennifer Knapp Jennifer Lynn Knapp (born April 12, 1974) is an American-Australian folk rock, and contemporary Christian musician. She is best known for her first single "Undo Me" from her debut album, ''Kansas'' (1998), and the song "A Little More" from her ...
, born in Chanute, is a Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning Christian folk rock musician whose first album, released in 1998, was certified gold. Finally, Shooting Star, notable for being the first American act signed by
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, hailed from Overland Park.


1960s

In the 1960s, R&B,
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, and
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bands became popular with acts such as the Fabulous Flippers,
The Blue Things The Blue Things (also known as The Bluethings) were a folk rock and, later, psychedelic band from Hays, Kansas that existed from 1964 to 1968, recording one LP and several singles for RCA Records in '66 and '67. The RCA recordings remain their ...
, the Red Dogs, The Serfs, Eric & The Norsemen, The Sensational Showmen of Concordia,
Wade Flemons Wade Herbert Flemons (September 25, 1940 – October 13, 1993) was an American soul singer. He was born in Coffeyville, Kansas to Samuel and Kathyrine Flemons. His father was a minister, who introduced him to gospel music. After his parents' mar ...
, and Mike Finnigan traveling the
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and releasing regional singles.


1970s

Hard prog rock band
Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
gained hits such as " Carry On Wayward Son"(1976) and "
Dust in the Wind "Dust in the Wind" is a song recorded by American progressive rock band Kansas and written by band member Kerry Livgren, first released on their 1977 album ''Point of Know Return''. The song peaked at No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 the wee ...
"(1978).


1980s

In the early 1980s, Wichita, Topeka, and
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, together with
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had a significant
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scene, centered at Lawrence's
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campus, and later at the
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. Among the most popular bands were
The Embarrassment The Embarrassment was an American quartet formed in 1979 in Wichita, Kansas, that was active from 1979 to 1983, but has reunited several times since then. The band consisted of guitarist Bill Goffrier, lead singer and organist John Nichols, bassi ...
, Get Smart!, and Mortal Micronotz.


1990s

In the 1990s, Kansas produced some bands that found regional and national success taking the predominant
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aesthetic and adding a
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or
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twang, a style sometimes grouped into
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. Paw, out of Lawrence became the most well-known of these bands following the 1993 release of their major-label album ''
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''. Truck Stop Love, out of Manhattan, Kansas, had a somewhat similar sound and was also signed to a national label, Scotti Brothers Records, with the well-received ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' being an appropriate swan song. The Moving Van Goghs, also from Manhattan, with a psychedelic/rock aesthetic, is also a notable band during the "pre-grunge" time period in the Kansas music scene. Finally, Kill Creek(band), a Lawrence band since the 1980s period was signed by Mammoth Recordings and achieved critical national attention with three full LPs and an EP. The sound of these bands was comparable to some
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and their out-of-state contemporaries
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Other bands from Kansas signed during the same period included Shiner, Sin City Disciples, Season to Risk, Everywhere, and Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers. Early contemporaries included The Pedaljets, a band fronted by Mike Allmayer who later formed Grither. The Pedaljets put out two LPs, ''Today Today'' (Twilight), ''The Pedaljets'' (Communion), and one 45 (Throbbing Lobster). Both albums received critical national attention. The Pedaljets toured the US extensively from 1984–1990, often opening for Hüsker Dü, The Flaming Lips, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Meat Puppets, and other well known alternative bands of the 1980s. Late contemporaries included Grither, Zoom, Vitreous Humor, Believe it or Nots, and Stick. Notable musicians of this time to come from Kansas are Mark Hart, Danny Carey,
Kliph Scurlock Clifton Thomas "Kliph" Scurlock (born June 16, 1973) is an American musician. He was the drummer and percussionist for alternative rock band The Flaming Lips from 2002 to 2014. Early life Scurlock was born in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Roger W. ...
, and Brody Buster. DVS Mindz was an underground hip hop group formed in Topeka in 1993.


2000s

Midwest hip hop artists XV from Wichita and
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from Topeka emerged in the early 2000s. Kansas bands that gained notoriety were
Ultimate Fakebook Ultimate Fakebook is an American three-piece power pop musical band, band from Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan, Kansas, United States. Albums and EPs Ultimate Fakebook has released five albums and an Extended play, EP: ''Electric Kissing Parties' ...
, Pomeroy, Frogpond, Paw, Mates of State, and
Appleseed Cast The Appleseed Cast is an American rock band from Lawrence, Kansas. The band was founded in the early days of emo by singer-guitarist Christopher Crisci and drummer Louie Ruiz. The Appleseed Cast has steadily evolved over the release of eight f ...
.


Musical venues in Kansas

The following are alphabetical lists of notable venues located in Kansas that regularly host musical acts.


Concert halls & theaters

* Century II Convention HallWichita * Lied Center of Kansas
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* McCain Auditorium –
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* Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) - Wichita, Kansas * Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts - Salina, Kansas * Topeka Performing Arts Center – Topeka * Yardley Hall - Overland Park, Kansas


Other notable indoor venues

* The Bottleneck – Lawrence * Bramlage Coliseum – Manhattan * Cotillion Ballroom – Wichita * D.J.'s – Concordia * Eighth Street Taproom – Lawrence * The Gas Light – Lawrence * Granada Theater – Lawrence * Grandmother's – Topeka * Bank Arena – Wichita * Jackpot Music Hall – Lawrence * The Jazzhaus – Lawrence * The Jolly Troll – Holton * Kirby's Beer Store – Wichita * Landon Arena/Kansas Expocentre – Topeka * Liberty Hall – Lawrence * Longhorn's Saloon – Manhattan * Manhattan Arts Center – Manhattan * McPherson Opera House (1889) – McPherson *
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* Red Dog Inn – Lawrence * Replay Lounge – Lawrence * The Stiefel Theater - Salina * The Wareham Opera House – Manhattan * The Wave - Wichita * The Yuk – Lawrence


Outdoor venues and festivals

* Muddy Water Music Festival – Anthony *
Country Stampede Music Festival The Country Stampede Music Festival is an outdoor country music and camping festival held at Heartland Motorsports Park, south of Topeka, Kansas. The festival has been held annually since 1996, historically on the last weekend in June (except in 2 ...
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
* Walnut Valley FestivalWinfield * Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone
Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...
* Lakefest Country Music Festival –
Atchison Atchison may refer to: Places In the United States: *Atchison, California, a former settlement *Atchison, Kansas, a city *Atchison County, Kansas *Atchison County, Missouri People with the surname * Bob Atchison (born 1941), Canadian drag race ...
* Riverfest Park – De Soto


Bibliography

* Blush, Steven (2001). '' American Hardcore: A Tribal History''. Los Angeles:
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. .


References


External links


Kansas Music Hall of Fame
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Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...