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Kansas

at Appell Center for the Performing Arts

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Downtown York's grandest room isn't one room — it's two. The Appell Center runs the 1,262-seat Strand and the more intimate 450-seat Capitol, a pair of restored 1920s movie palaces on North George Street that have been the city's big stage for a century (the Strand just hit its 100th birthday this season). One night it's a national touring act or a comedian, the next it's the York Symphony or a classic on the big screen through the CapFilm series. It's the kind of place with real history in the walls — it reopened in 1980 with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill and hasn't stopped booking since. Grab tickets, dress up a little if you feel like it, and remember that a proper night out doesn't always start at a bar. Sometimes the best seat in York has a curtain in front of it.

September 29, 2026

One-time

When

7:30 PM

Where

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Few classic rock bands have a résumé quite like Kansas: five decades together, more than 30 million albums sold, eight gold records, three sextuple-Platinum albums, and sold-out arenas across North America, Europe, and Japan. The Topeka garage band brings all of that history to the Strand Theatre on Tuesday, September 29 at 7:30 PM. Formed after being discovered by industry figure Wally Gold and releasing their debut in 1974, Kansas has stayed a genuine radio-rock institution ever since, and a room like the Strand — 1,262 seats, restored to its 1920s splendor, on the same North George Street block that's hosted live music since reopening with Ella Fitzgerald in 1980 — is exactly the kind of setting that lets a band with this much catalog stretch out. Tickets start at $59.

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