The KANSAS Leftoverture Tour Comes to Poway Center for the Performing Arts

Rock band KANSAS performs Tuesday, September 19th at 8:00pm in Poway OnStage's 800 seat theater as part of their Leftoverture 40th anniversary tour. Leftoverture which sold over 6 million albums and includes "Carry On Wayward Son" will be performed in its entirety for the first time in 43 years.

"We are thrilled to bring this arena-scale rock show to our intimate theatre," says Michael Rennie, President and CEO of Poway OnStage. "KANSAS has a legendary career spanning more than four decades. We leapt at the chance to give our audience this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this iconic classic rock band up close. Every seat in the Poway Center is a premium seat!"

"We are having so much fun doing these Leftoverture 40th Anniversary shows, we just want to keep doing them," comments KANSAS guitarist and original member Richard Williams. "We had no idea when we started doing these, last fall, that they would be so popular. When we first started discussing this concept, we were just hoping to be able to do ten of these type shows. We would not have predicted we would end up doing nearly 70 of them. I can't think of a better way to wrap up 2017, before taking a break from the road at the beginning of 2018, to record a new studio album."

In 1976, KANSAS released the album Leftoverture. Containing the smash hit and million-selling single "Carry On Wayward Son," along with fan favorites such as "The Wall," "Miracles Out Of Nowhere," and "What's On My Mind," Leftoverture became the band's breakthrough album. The album peaked at #5 on Billboard's Album charts and reached sextuple-platinum status with more than six million copies sold.

This "garage band" from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Composing a catalog that includes fifteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), and two one million-selling gold singles, 'Carry On Wayward Son' and 'Dust in the Wind.'

The Prelude Implicit, the band's most recent album, which was released on September 23rd, marked KANSAS' biggest selling week in the Soundscan era, and the highest charting release since Power (1986). The album reached #14 on the Top 200 album chart, #41 on the Billboard 200, #5 for Rock Albums, #6 for Physical Albums, #17 on the Vinyl Albums chart and more.

Photo credit: Courtesy of KANSAS