Here's a look at ongoing music and dance events taking place in Kansas City. Search our events calendar for a full list of activities planned throughout the city.

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Live Music

Dates: Every Thu.-Sat. | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Benton Steak & Chop House, One E. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.

Stephanie Laws is the featured vocalist every Thursday through Saturday. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Music & Dance

Live Music Nightly

Dates: Thu.-Sun. | Location: Northeast | Venue: Harrah's Casino and Hotel, One Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, Mo.

Live entertainment and music every Thursday thru Sunday. ...

Type: Music & Dance

Maker's Mark Live Music Fridays

Dates: Every Fri. | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Maker's Mark, Bourbon House & Lounge, 1333 Walnut St, Kansas City, Mo

Enjoy live music by Jayson Kayne and celebrate the beginning of the weekend with a complimentary bourbon toast at 11 pm. ...

Admission: Free
Type: Music & Dance

Abel Ramirez Big Band

Dates: Jan. 6-Dec. 22 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Ari's Greek Restaurant, 2049 E. Santa Fe Rd., Olathe, Kan.

The Abel Ramirez Big Band perform every Tuesday classic big band jazz in the same Kansas City tradition that made this town famous with his 17 piece band, come and have dinner and dance or listen to great dance music. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Music & Dance

Fall Opera: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel

Dates: Nov. 19-22 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

UMKC Opera Theatre performs Humperdinck's magical work set in the Missouri Ozarks with the UMKC Dance Division and a children's chorus from the Community Music and Dance Academy. Sung in German. ...

Admission: $12, $10 seniors, UMKC faculty, staff, and all students free with UMKC or student ID.
Type: Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents Stern Conducts Sibelius

Dates: Nov. 20-23 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Lyric Theatre, 1029 Central St., Kansas City, Mo., Fri.-Sat.; Johnson County Community College, Yardley Hall, College Blvd. & Quivira Rd., Overland Park, Kan., Sun.

Two major patriotic works surround an exciting world premiere. Avner Dorman's new piano concerto is preceded by Béla Bartók's homage to a great Hungarian patriot, the revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who led an attempted revolution against Austria in 18...

Type: Music & Dance

Thanksgiving with The Schwag

Dates: Nov. 25 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Gayland Titus

Dates: Wed., Nov. 25 | Location: Northwest | Venue: Crazy Olives, 777 NW Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, Mo.

Listen to live music at Crazy Olives each Wednesday night....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Black Friday with Black Knights

Dates: Nov. 26 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Admission: $45
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Kansas City Celebrity Classic 2009-Black Friday

Dates: Fri., Nov. 27 | Location: Northeast | Venue: Harrah's Casino and Hotel, VooDoo Lounge, One Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, Mo.

It's time for Kansas City to rival Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles as a nightclub destination. VooDoo hosts the hottest parties in the Midwest. Nationally-known DJs are flown in each week to work their magic using one of the most sophisticated sou...

Admission: $15-35
Type: Music & Dance

Neon Blue

Dates: Nov. 27-28 | Location: Northwest | Venue: Casino Bar Stage, 777 NW Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, Mo.

Listen to live music on the Casino Bar Stage each Friday and Saturday night....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents "Handel's Messiah"

Dates: Sat., Nov. 28 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Community of Christ Auditorium, 1001 W Walnut St., Independence, Mo.

This mosaic of the scriptures remains Handel's most famous work and is one of the most triumphant choral pieces ever written! Warm your holiday season with an enduring favorite, Handel's Messiah, performed by the Kansas City Symphony and Chorus, alo...

Admission: $10 and up
Type: Music & Dance

Michael Lasser & Company: Music of World War I

Dates: Nov. 28 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, J. C. Nichols Auditorium, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Michael Lasser, along with performers Cindy Miller and Alan Jones, will present a lively concert of popular songs from World War I. Featuring patriotic, sentimental, and martial music of the period. Lasser, a Peabody Award-winning lecturer on Americ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

DJ Bobby Keys

Dates: Sat., Nov. 28 | Location: Northeast | Venue: Harrah's Casino and Hotel, VooDoo Lounge, One Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, Mo.

It's time for Kansas City to rival Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles as a nightclub destination. VooDoo hosts the hottest parties in the Midwest. Nationally-known DJs are flown in each week to work their magic using one of the most sophisticated sou...

Admission: Cover Charge
Type: Music & Dance

Swell Season

Dates: Nov. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Admission: $20
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Yifan Wu, cello

Dates: Mon., Nov. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Junior Recital...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Elton John and Billy Joel

Dates: Tue., Dec. 1 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Elton John and Billy Joel, the most successful and longest-running concert pairing in pop history, will bring their wildly successful Face 2 Face tour to Sprint Center on December 1, 2009 at 7:30pm. Since kicking off the 2009 Face 2 Face tour in Mar...

Admission: $52, $97, $177
Type: Concerts,Major Events,Music & Dance

Chamber Choir and MadRegalia

Dates: Wed., Dec. 2 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Polsky Theatre, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, Kan.

Classical Music...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

"Christmas at My House-Melodies and Memories"

Dates: Dec. 3-4 | Location: Northeast | Venue: Corbin Theatre, 15 N Water St., Liberty, Mo.

Nostalgic look at "Christmas Past" as Dick Brown, Bill Grace and Larry Harman reminisce about their favorite Christmas memories....

Admission: $10
Type: Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents "A Tchaikovsky Holiday"

Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Visitation Church, 5141 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Christmas in the Czech Republic is contagious and steeped in tradition, from cookies and cakes to caroling and Christmas trees. Our Chamber Players have captured this Old World enchantment in an intimate holiday program featuring "Saint Wenceslas," ...

Admission: Adults $20, Youth $10
Type: Music & Dance

Heartland Men's Chorus presents "Fruitcake"

Dates: Dec. 4-6 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Folly Theater, 300 W 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Join Kansas City's 150-voice gay men's chorus for a confection of sugar and spice, both naughty and nice! Soaked in spirits and steeped in nostalgia, the men of HMC are cooking up a holiday treat that runs the gamut from sentimental to silly. You'll...

Admission: $15-$30
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Beer Pong with Country Club DJ

Dates: Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Dec. 4 | Location: Northeast | Venue: Harrah's Casino and Hotel, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, One Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, Mo.

Named after Toby's hit single "I Love This Bar," this exciting venue has it all. Sample some down-home cooking straight from Toby's kitchen, like fried bologna sandwiches or the Toby Keith burger with sweet potato pecan pie. You can also sit back, e...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

The Republic Tigers

Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Polsky Theatre, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, Kan.

"It's a sound that's half organic and half synthetic, kind of like how all of our lives are now," says singer/multi-instrumentalist Kenn Jankowski. "It's the common theme throughout all of the songs and we tried to approach it audibly well." With...

Admission: $5 for JCCC students with valid ID, $10 for general public
Type: Music & Dance,Special Events

KU Vespers on the Road

Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Yardley Hall, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, Kan.

Chorus, orchestra, and soloists. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents "TubaChristmas"

Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Lyric Theatre, 1029 Central St., Kansas City, Mo.

Among the downtown events going on at holiday time, one of the most unique is TubaChristmas, where many dozens (we hope hundreds this year!) of tuba and euphonium players come together to play Christmas carols and celebrate the season. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

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