Zoso brings its Led Zeppelin show back to Wichita, at Wave in March

The long-running Zeppelin tribute hasn't played Wichita since a 2022 TempleLive date; it returns Sunday, March 14 at Wave in Old Town.

Somewhere in Wichita there is a person who has been waiting four and a half years to hear "Kashmir" played loud by four guys in the right clothes. Their night is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when Zoso – The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Tribute plays Wave. The show starts at 8 p.m., tickets run $29–$40 through See Tickets, and the date was announced Oct. 19.

It's the band's first Wichita show since Oct. 28, 2022, when it played TempleLive Wichita downtown. That's a long gap for a band that tours as much as this one does.

And Zoso tours a lot. Venue and promoter listings trace the band back to 1995, when it was founded by Matt Jernigan and Adam Sandling, and a Montana promoter marked 2025 as the group's 30th anniversary with more than 4,800 shows behind it. This year's listings put the count past 4,900. The 2026 calendar alone ran from the Orpheum in Flagstaff in March through Colorado Springs in April, Memphis in August and a pair of Wisconsin dates in October. Promoters like to quote old press clips — the Chicago Sun-Times calling Zoso "the closest to the original of any Led Zeppelin tribute" turns up on more than one listing — but the more telling number is the show count. A band doesn't get to nearly 5,000 nights by being a novelty.

A band doesn't get to nearly 5,000 nights by being a novelty.

What has changed in Wichita since 2022 is mostly the room. TempleLive is a big converted Masonic temple; Wave is a different animal. It sits at 650 E. 2nd St. N. in Old Town, just west of St. Francis and right under the railroad overpass, and it opened in 2018 as a hybrid indoor-outdoor "backyard" stage — KMUW reported the first show was the Toadies that Sept. 1. In summer the backyard carries the big shows; a Sunday night in mid-March points to the indoor side, which holds about 500. That's a much tighter fit for a Zeppelin set than a temple ballroom, and a better one: these songs were built in clubs before they filled stadiums.

Practical notes: Wave's own FAQ points to a large parking lot directly across 2nd Street, and Old Town's restaurants and bars are a short walk if you want to make an evening of it. It's a Sunday, so the 8 p.m. start means a work-night finish for most people — plan accordingly, or take Monday slow.

There's no new album to promote here and no pretending otherwise. The appeal is simple: the catalog, played straight, by people who have spent three decades getting it right. If you never saw the real thing, this is as close as Wichita gets in a 500-cap room. If you did, you already know whether you're going.

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