Kansas books Spokane Live at Spokane Tribe Casino for Jan. 23

The prog-rock veterans open their 2027 calendar in Airway Heights, in a 3,400-capacity room, with Ronnie Platt still out front.

Plenty of Spokane rock fans have Kansas records that are older than the casino on the west edge of town. On Saturday, Jan. 23, the band plays there anyway, and it's one of the first dates on their 2027 calendar.

Kansas plays Spokane Live at Spokane Tribe Casino in Airway Heights on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale through AXS. The show was announced Oct. 23, and the room holds 3,400.

Kansas has been touring hard. In August the band expanded its fall 2026 headline run, and the early 2027 dates now coming out continue it. Ultimate Classic Rock's list of new-year shows includes Pensacola on Jan. 31, Orlando on Feb. 12, Immokalee, Fla., on Feb. 13 and Rockford, Ill., on Feb. 19, plus a Cruise to the Edge sailing out of Miami. A band spokesperson told the outlet that more 2027 dates will be announced in the coming weeks. Right now, Airway Heights is one of the earliest stops on the list.

Phil Ehart still runs the business; the band keeps carrying on.

The lineup has changed since the band's 1970s records. Ronnie Platt has fronted Kansas for years now; he sang on the band's 15th studio album, *The Prelude Implicit*, and on 2020's *The Absence of Presence*, which came out July 17, 2020, on Inside Out. Founding drummer Phil Ehart had a serious heart attack in February 2024. Eric Holmquist has played drums since, and Ehart is still the band's manager and runs its business. Late last year, Platt told an interviewer that Ehart "sounds great these days." Ehart has also put out a book, *I AM PHIL*.

The catalog keeps returning too. The band's *Point of Know Return Live & Beyond* release revisited one of its best-known albums onstage. That's mostly what a Kansas show is at this point: a band that has outlasted almost every lineup change, playing songs people have known for decades, for an audience that brings its kids now.

The room fits that. Spokane Live holds 3,400. That's big enough for a full production and still small enough that the violin carries without the echo of an arena.

Tickets are on AXS now. Kansas fans in the Inland Northwest don't get many chances like this, so don't count on another one soon.

Sources: Ultimate Classic Rock: Kansas new tour dates 2027 (ultimateclassicrock.com); No Treble: Kansas Expands Fall 2026 Headlining Tour (notreble.com); Classic Rock Bob: Ronnie Platt and Kansas Keep On Carrying On (classicrockbob.com); Wikipedia: The Absence of Presence (en.wikipedia.org); Classic Rock Revisited: Kansas – The Prelude Implicit (classicrockrevisited.com); Blabbermouth: Kansas to release Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond (blabbermouth.net); AXS tickets (axs.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com); Spokane Tribe Opens Airway Heights Casino (ggbnews.com); Kansas announce new violin player Joe Deninzon (loudersound.com)