Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas

Opera Kansas presents Purcell's devastating baroque masterpiece in an intimate, contemporary staging. When a Carthaginian queen falls for a shipwrecked hero and witches conspire to destroy them both, love becomes a battlefield. Featuring 20 Midwest artists. Friday,...

KNOB New Music Festival 2026

KNOB New Music Festival 2026

January 29-31, doors at 7:30, shows start at 8. We've switched from November to January, but the festival is still the knobfest you love: three days of experimental, ground-breaking, unique, occasionally challenging but always thought-provoking music and...

an evening with Nick Jaina

an evening with Nick Jaina

Nick Jaina is a musician and author originally from Sacramento who has lived in Portland, New York, and New Orleans. He was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 2015 for his memoir Get It While You Can. His writing has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, McSweeney's Quarterly...

Paul Elwood memorial concert

Paul Elwood memorial concert

Join us to remember and celebrate beloved musician (multiple KNOBfest alum) and friend Paul Elwood on Sunday, October 12th, at 3pm. PROGRAM Jerry Scholl, Dan Moore, Courtney Long, Sue McKenzie, Susan Mayo, Tim Snider, Kelly Werts, John Harrison, Rob Loren, Joe Emery,...

Music is The Best

Music is The Best

Music Is The Best: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Frank Zappa. MUSIC IS THE BEST uses Frank Zappa to narrate the evolution of my musical identity and the integral role my father has played in shaping this journey. Zappa, affectionately known as “Uncle...

MSSV

MSSV

MSSV, composed of guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges on drums and Mike Watt on bass, creates music that is a heretofore unimagined hybrid of a punk power-trio, noir-tinged adventure music and a dreamy experimental rock band, though they prefer the term...

KNOB New Music Festival 2024

KNOB New Music Festival 2024

KNOB rises again, and it wants your brains! Doors at 7:30, shows start at 8. Admission is by a suggested donation of $10 per night. Thursday, 11/7Chase Hampton dance pieceMolly WenzelJacob MashakMike Unruh Friday, 11/8Courtney Long/Susan MayoTorin AndersenFlowerbot...

Nimbus New Music Concert

Nimbus New Music Concert

Wednesday, May 29th The second Nimbus New Music concert features multi instrumentalist Colin Fisher from Toronto/Montreal; vibraphonist Jackson Graham from Lawrence, KS; and a solo guitar set from local guitarist David Lord. Fisch Haus, 524 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS...

Woven

Woven

Friday, December 15, 2023 - 6:00pm Guest event curated by Skyler Dew WOVEN: a term for the interlacing and connectedness of all things, places and time-- no matter the difference or distance of one's experience, we embody a living memory called Earth. She emanates...

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