Beyond the Chiefs, this fall brings U2 to Arrowhead, Lady Gaga to Sprint — and just enough food, drink and cultural events to let you recover
Friday, September 1
Kansas City Irish Fest (through September 3)
Crown Center Square
Santa Cali Gon Days (through September 4)
Historic Independence Square
Saturday, September 2
Kansas City Renaissance Festival (weekends and holidays through October 15)
Bonner Springs
Indigo Girls
Becky Warren
Crossroads KC
Sunday, September 3
John Butler Trio
Nattali Rize
Crossroads KC
Ravyn Lenae
Smino and SZA
Uptown Theater
Monday, September 4
Lake Street Dive
Crossroads KC
Tuesday, September 5
Cherry Glazerr
RecordBar
Yes, featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Thursday, September 7
Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival (through September 10)
Various locations
Dancefestopia Music Festival (through September 10)
Tiësto, Breathe Carolina, Datsik, Liquid Stranger, Crizzly, Space Jesus, Puppet, PhaseOne
Berkley Riverfront Park
Friday, September 8
Local Runway
Fashion show benefiting Healing House
The Oliver Building (1321 West 13th Street, West Bottoms)
Jesse James Festival (through September 17)
Kearney, Missouri
Annunciation Greek Festival (through September 10)
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
Belton Fall Festival
Main Street, Belton
Snoop Dogg
Foster the People, Spoon, Marian Hill, K.Flay, Toadies, Hippo Campus
Children’s Mercy Park
Saturday, September 9
Independence Uncorked Wine Festival
Noon-6 p.m., Bingham-Waggoner Estate (313 West Pacific Avenue, Independence)
Dance in the Park
7 p.m., Roanoke Park (3600 Roanoke Road, north corner)
KC Beer Fest
Kansas City Power & Light District
Crossroads Music Fest
Walnut to Oak Streets between 16th and 19th streets
Kansas City Renaissance Festival (weekends and holidays through October 15)
Bonner Springs
Weezer
Run the Jewels, Gogol Bordello, PVRIS, Bishop Briggs, Chicano Batman
Children’s Mercy Park
Ying Yang Twins and Second Hand King
John Price, Lovergurl, Smitty the Kid
The Riot Room
Sunday, September 10
Kenny Broberg
Van Cliburn piano medalist
4 p.m., Folly Theater
Kansas City Jewish Culture Fest
Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City
Monday, September 11
Douglas Preston
Author, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
7 p.m., Unity Temple on The Plaza (707 West 47th Street)
Seu Jorge
Liberty Hall, Lawrence
Tuesday, September 12
U2
Beck
Arrowhead Stadium
Wednesday, September 13
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Uptown Theater
Thursday, September 14
The Mountain Goats
Kevin Morby
Madrid Theatre
Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal
Uptown Theater
Friday, September 15
Brush Creek Art Walk (through September 17)
Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
Kansas City Symphony
Season opening weekend: pianist Natasha Remiski plays Rachmaninoff
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, September 16
Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival
Screenland Armour, screenland.com
Riverside Music Fest
E.H. Young Riverfront Park
Waldo Fall Festival
75th Street and Wornall Road
Village West WineFest
Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark
Uncorked: KC 90+
100 wines rated over 90 points
Union Station
Tech N9ne
The Truman
Eli Young Band
Granada Theatre
Sunday, September 17
Banks
Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
Monday, September 18
Tove Lo
The Truman
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Beth Hart
Uptown Theater
Wednesday, September 20
Andrew W.K.
RecordBar
Thursday, September 21
Kansas City Wine & Roses
kansascityrosesociety.org/wine–roses.html
Jacob L. Loose Park
Friday, September 22
Liberty Fall Festival (through September 24)
Downtown Liberty
Lee’s Summit Oktoberfest (through September 23)
Downtown Lee’s Summit
Gorillaz
Sprint Center
Melissa Etheridge
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, September 23
Annual Fall Parade of Homes
11 a.m.–6 p.m. daily through October 8
Plaza Art Fair
Country Club Plaza
Overland Park Fall Festival
opkansas.org/events/overland-park-fall-festival/
Santa Fe Commons Park
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
Soul2Soul
Sprint Center
Sunday, September 24
Zach Lovely’s Wild West Showdown
11 a.m., lowrider show and hop contest
1217 Union Avenue, West Bottoms
Under a Harvest Moon: A Farm to Table Benefit Dinner featuring Vaughn Good of Hank Charcuterie
Powell Gardens
Rise Against, Pierce the Veil, and White Lung
Uptown Theater
Andy Mineo
The Truman
Tuesday, September 26
The Weeknd
Sprint Center
Sylvan Esso
Helado Negro
Crossroads KC
Lords of Acid
Combichrist, and Christian Death
Granada Theatre
Wednesday, September 27
Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty
Starlight Theatre
Thursday, September 28
Universal Film Festival
Cinemark Palace on the Plaza
Friday, September 29
Gladstone Gladfest (through October 1)
gladstonechamber.com/events/gladfest-copy
Oak Grove Park
Saturday, September 30
Eugene Onegin
Lyric Opera (through October 8)
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Green Dirt Farm Table Dinner featuring chef Carlos Falcon (Jarocho Mariscos y Pescados)
Green Dirt Farm, Weston
Weston Tobacco Festival
Weston Burley House
Busta Rhymes
Crossroads KC
Clint Black
Ameristar Casino Kansas City
Monday, October 2
Chiefs vs. Washington, with the Kansas City Symphony performing the national anthem
7:30 p.m. (ESPN broadcast)
Arrowhead Stadium
Between the Buried and Me
Granada Theatre
Tuesday, October 3
The xx
Perfume Genius
Starlight Theatre
Dawes
Madrid Theatre
Wednesday, October 4
Willie Nelson
Starlight Theatre
Thursday, October 5
Dan Brown
Author, Origin
7 p.m., Unity Temple on The Plaza (707 West 47th Street)
Mount Moriah
Angel Olsen
Granada Theatre
Saturday, October 7
Kansas City Japan Festival
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park
WaterFire Kansas City
Country Club Plaza
Sunday, October 8
Alison Krauss and David Gray
7 p.m., Starlight Theatre
Tuesday, October 10
George Saunders
Author, Lincoln in the Bardo
7.p.m. Liberty Hall, Lawrence, free
Thursday, October 12
Tim O’Brien
Author, The Things They Carried (2017’s Big Read book)
6:30 p.m., Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch
Friday, October 13
Romeo & Juliet
Kansas City Ballet, world-premiere choreography by Devon Carney (through October 22)
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Weston Irish Festival
O’Malley’s
Saturday, October 14
Botanical Brewfest
Overland Park Arboretum
Brew at the Zoo & Wine Too
Kansas City Zoo
Wednesday, October 18
Mark Bowden
Author, Hu 1968
6:30 p.m., Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch
Sunday, October 22
The B-52’s
Uptown Theater
The Afghan Whigs
Har Mar Superstar
RecordBar
Friday, October 27
Arcade Fire
Silverstein Eye Centers Arena
Walter Isaacson
Author, Leonardo da Vinci
7 p.m., Unity Temple on The Plaza (707 West 47th Street)
Cults
The Riot Room
Ministry
Death Grips
Uptown Theater
Pavel Haas String Quartet
Friends of Chamber Music
Folly Theater
Kansas City Symphony
Dvorák, Shostakovich
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, October 29
Missouri Barn Dinner Series featuring chef Carmen Cabia of El Tenedor
Powell Gardens
Regina Spektor
Uptown Theater
Tuesday, October 31
Gogol Bordello
Granada Theatre
Screenland at the Sympony: Nosferatu
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Thursday, November 2
Kristin Chenoweth
Lied Center
Friday, November 3
Empty Bowls
Harvesters fundraiser
ArtsTech Center (1522 Holmes)
Trio Solisti
Friends of Chamber Music
1900 Building, Mission Woods
Kansas International Film Festival
Glenwood Arts Theater
Descendents
Less Than Jake
Uptown Theater
Slowdive
The Truman
Sunday, November 5
Blues Traveler and Los Colognes
Uptown Theater
Tuesday, November 7
Victor Wooten
Madrid Theatre
Saturday, November 11
Everest
Lyric Opera (through November 19)
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
O.A.R.
Uptown Theater
Bret Michaels
Ameristar Casino and Hotel
Vienna Boys Choir
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday, November 15
Lady Gaga
Sprint Center
Thursday, November 16
Jessica Lea Mayfield
The Riot Room
Nick Offerman
Uptown Theater
Saturday, November 18
Brandy Clark
RecordBar
Sunday, November 19
St. Vincent
Uptown Theater
