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Local History

Kansas (7/25/1979)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Kansas w/ Night
Date: 25 July 1979
Tickets: $8.50 (general admission)
Attendance: (unknown)
Notes: Opening act was “Night,” a Los Angeles-based band that included Manfred Mann’s Earth Band alumni Chris Thompson and Stevie Vann, and piano great Nicky Hopkins.
Setlist (Kansas): Dust in the Wind, People of the South Wind, Carry On Wayward Son, Stay Out of Trouble, How My Soul Cries Out for You, On the Other Side, others.

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Kansas-Gazette-23-24-June-7-14-22-23-July1979 — Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 24 June 1979, (lower left) 23 June 1979, (left center) 7 July 1979, (right center) 14 July 1979, (top right) 22 July 1979, (lower right) 23 July 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 1 July 1979, (right) 8 July 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 15 July 1979, (right) 22 July 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 July 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 25 July 1979, (right) 26 July 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 June 1979, page 43

“Wings adds three more rock concerts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 24 June 1979, page 20

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 July 1979, page 26

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 July 1979, page 43

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 July 1979, page 21

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 July 1979, page 46

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 July 1979, page 24

“Pop, rock, jazz and folk”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 July 1979, page 17

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 July 1979, page 18

“Kansas’s music escapes easy definitions”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 July 1979, page 18

“No snapshots, please”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 July 1979, page 18

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 July 1979, page 36

“The arts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 July 1979, page 1

“A new standard in rock concerts”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 July 1979, page 41