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Conservatory Artist Series: Carmina Burana
Dates: Mon., Feb. 20 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108
Carl Orff's popular "Carmina Burana," conducted by Robert Bode and is an audience favorite for its diverse offerings of love, lust, and the evocative moods of spring. Choreographed by Paula Weber, the dancers evoke the poetry of spring and the Carmi...
Admission: $20 general; $10 all UMKC faculty, staff and students with UMKC ID
Type: Music & Dance
Sweetheart Saturday
Dates: 1/27/12 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: 2100 Walnut St. Kansas City MO,64108
Join Red Star Studios for a pre-Valentine's Day Shopping event. Gift experts will be on hand to help select the perfect surprise for that special someone. ...
Type: Special Events
Arts Advocacy
Dates: Fri., Feb. 10 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
Please join us for complimentary appetizers and drinks Friday, February 10, from 5:30-6:30PM at the H&R Block Artspace for our next Arts Advocacy Hour. Guest Speaker,Jacqueline Chanda, President of the Kansas City Art Institute, will be presenting. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Now Showing Winter Happy Hour!
Dates: Fri., Feb. 17 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, 906 Grand Blvd., Ste. 10B, Kansas City, MO 64106
Join us for cocktails, light appetizers and amazing art featuring artists Jon Freeman and Deborah Drake Huff from the Now Showing portfolio. This event is free to attend and open to the public so bring your friends, family and co-workers!
This i...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
The Mystery Train presents "Quay to a Crime"
Dates: Feb. 18, 25; Mar. 2-3, 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: The Golden Ox, 1600 Genessee, Kansas City, MO 64102
Interactive murder mystery comedy--The River Quay is going through a face-lift in 1976 to attract the family business. But, it's more like a face-off when a killing happens on the train and the Family is called to defend their honor....
Admission: $64 each
Type: Theatre
"Defrost in Time"
Dates: Feb. 3-Mar. 3 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: Weinberger Fine Art, 1800 Baltimore St., Kansas City, MO 64108
A group gallery exhibit featuring new works from nationally known artists Mark English and Hunt Slonem. Also featuring works by Jodi Lightner, Barry Eisenhart, Steve Bonham, Paul & Kate Lindholm, Teresa Saluzzi, and Brady Legler. ...
Type: Exhibits
Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship
Dates: Mar. 7-10 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Municipal Auditorium, 301 W 13th St., Kansas City, MO 64105

The 2012 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship returns to Kansas City's legendary Municipal Auditorium for the eleventh time in Conference history March 7-10. Municipal Auditorium has hosted nearly every type of event from U.S. presiden...
Admission: All Session Reserved $90-$72
Single Session Reserved $20-$15
Type: Sports,Top Events
Kansas City Remodeling Show
Dates: Feb. 10-12 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., Kansas City, MO 64102

The Remodeling Show is Kansas City's only consumer show dedicated to the remodeling and home improvement industries. For more than twenty years, hundreds of thousands of consumers have shopped the Remodeling Show for the leading contractors, product...
Admission: $TBD adults, free for children 12 and under.
Type: Special Events
Metropolitan Lawn and Garden Show
Dates: Feb. 10-12 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., Kansas City, MO 64102

The Metropolitan Lawn & Garden Show is Kansas City's premier consumer Show dedicated to the green industry. Products and services exhibited include landscaping, power equipment, statuary, lawn maintenance, water gardens, decks, seeds, plants and bul...
Type: Special Events
The World's Greatest Rock 'N Roll Dueling Piano Show
Dates: Ongoing | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Howl at the Moon, 1334 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106

Howl at the Moon, "The World's Greatest Rock 'N Roll Dueling Piano Show", is partying 5 nights a week in the heart of Downtown at the Kansas City Power and Light District. Howl at the Moon's talented musicians will have you singing and clapping alo...
Admission: No Cover
Type: Nightlife,Ongoing
2012 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship
Dates: Mar. 7-10 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106

The Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship returns to Kansas City for the eleventh time, more than any other city in the conference.
This special event will be held at the Sprint Center for the fourth time, showcasing one of the region'...
Type: Sports,Top Events
Monster Jam
Dates: Feb. 10-12 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106

Feel the intense roar of each car crushing pass as the best drivers and trucks in the world battle for supremecy in Kansas City
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Admission: $15, $25, $30, $45
Type: Sports,Top Events
The Roasterie Factory Tour
Dates: Every Saturday (Except Holidays) | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Roasterie Cafe, 1204 W 27th St., Kansas City, MO 64108

We go to great lengths to bring you the best coffee in the world. And to this day, nobody does it like we do. Come by for a free tour every Saturday at 10 a.m. and learn all about our cupping, roasting and blending process. Plus, you'll find out how...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events
Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour By Cirque Du Soleil
Dates: Feb. 21, 22 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106

Cirque du Soleil will be bringing Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, written and directed by Jamie King, to Kansas City on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 at 8pm. In partnership with the Estate of Michael Jackson, this once-in-a-lifetime electrifying p...
Admission: $50, $80, $125, $175
Type: Concerts,Top Events
Karaoke Sundays
Dates: Every Sunday | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Fran's Restaurant and Bar, 11 E 14th St., Kansas City, MO 64106

Karaoke with DJ Dreux. 2 for one drinks and appetizers. Enter to Win Free beer for a year...
Type: Ongoing
Broadway Across America presents "Riverdance"
Dates: Feb. 24-26 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Music Hall, 301 W 13th St., Kansas City, MO 64105

Few shows have touched audiences like RIVERDANCE. A celebration of Irish music, song and dance, the show focuses on the evolution of Irish dance and its similarities with, and influences on, other cultures. The phenomenon of RIVERDANCE draws on Iris...
Admission: $40.00 - $60.00
Type: Theatre,Top Events
Kansas City Symphony presents "Tchaikovsky & Strauss"
Dates: Mar. 2-4 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108

The Kansas City Symphony is honored and thrilled to welcome one of the greatest conductors of our time, Christoph von Dohnányi, to the podium of Helzberg Hall. Maestro Dohnányi has received the acclaim of audiences and critics from his many appearan...
Admission: $58, $55, $45, $35, $25 and $18.
Type: Music & Dance,Top Events
"My Romance: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart"
Dates: Jan. 20-Feb. 19 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W 10th St,, Kansas City, MO 64105

One of the American Songbook's greatest songwriting partnerships gave us timeless classics like "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Blue Moon" and "Isn't it Romantic?"...
Admission: $29- adults, $26- seniors/students
Type: Theatre
"Make Someone Happy: The Songs of Comden and Green"
Dates: Mar. 2-Apr. 1 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W 10th St,, Kansas City, MO 64105

Betty Comden and Adolf Green made lots of someones happy with their scores (Bells Are Ringing, Wonderful Town) and screenplays (Singin'in the Rain, On the Town)....
Admission: $29-adults; $26-seniors/students
Type: Theatre
Kansas City Symphony Presents "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy"
Dates: Feb. 24-25 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108

Whether you are an original swing kid, a new rockabilly convert, or just a big fan of the fedora, grab your zoot suit and picture yourself in the 1940's. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy takes you back to the nights of big bands, rockin' rhythms, and jump blues...
Type: Concerts
National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic
Dates: Feb. 17-19 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Bartle Hall, 301 W 13th St., Kansas City, MO 64105

Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic is a trade show that will focus on wildlife conservation, upland game bird hunting (pheasant and quail), dog training, and wildlife habitat management and restoration. In connection with the trade show, Pheasants Foreve...
Admission: $10/day (for trade show and seminars only)
3-Day Pass: $35 (includes 1-year PF or QF membership and cap) available at the show
Type: Special Events
Harriman-Jewell Series presents Juan Diego Flórez, tenor in recital
Dates: Sun., Feb. 19 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108

Patrons will remember that top-of-the-world tenor Juan Diego Flórez sang his American recital debut in 2002 for the Series and returned for thrilling concerts in 2004 and 2008. The Peruvian star was a favorite discovery of the Series' late founder, ...
Type: Music & Dance
Folly Jazz Series Presents: Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
Dates: Sat., Mar. 6 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Folly Theater, 300 W 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64105

16 of New York's finest jazz musicians, the legendary Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will take the Folly stage March 3rd. The very best of modern big band Jazz....
Admission: $18-$35
Type: Concerts
Tie The Knot!
Dates: Tue., Feb. 14 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: The City Market, 20 E 5th St., Ste. 201, Kansas City, MO 64106
Thinking about getting married? Want a very unique and affordable way to celebrate your love? Come "Tie The Knot" at the City Market on Valentine's Day! Every 15 minutes, FREE wedding ceremonies will take place, complete with flowers and cake! B...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events
George Strait
Dates: Sat., Feb. 25 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106

Superstar George Strait kicks of his 2012 tour on Jan. 27 and Sprint Center, Kansas City's award winning arena, will again welcome the King of Country on Feb. 25. Year after year, night after night, Strait shows fans a good time whether on the road ...
Admission: $69.50, $79.50
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance,Top Events