Three big concert tours about to rock Wichita’s Intrust Bank Arena over a five-day span
Sometimes, Wichita has a blank space of weeks and weeks without a big concert.
Then, every once in a while, Intrust Bank Arena hits a period where it hosts a bunch of big concert tours in a row.
It’s about to be one of those weeks.
It all starts on Saturday, when country singer Jason Aldean returns to Wichita with his “We Back” tour. The very next night, hard rockers Korn and Breaking Benjamin will put on a show.
Then on Wednesday, classic rockers KISS will apply their famous face paint and take the stage.
Here’s a closer look at the three acts on their way over the next several days and how you can get tickets.
Jason Aldean, 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Country star Jason Aldean will return to Wichita on Saturday, and it’ll be his fourth performance at Intrust Bank Arena since it opened in 2010. Aldean also was here in 2012, 2014 and 2015.
He launched his appropriately titled We Back tour last month and Wichita is the ninth stop. The show will include opening acts Morgan Wallen, Riley Green and Dee Jay Silver.
On recent concert stops, Aldean has been performing about 23 songs including some of his biggest hits: “Dirt Road Anthem,” “Fly Over States,” and “Tattoos on This Town.”
He’s also performed songs from his newest album “9,” including “We Back” and “Dirt We Were Raised On.” The album was just released in November.
Aldean has apparently forgiven Wichita for his last visit in 2015, when one of the people in the 9,000-person crowd tossed a cup of beer at him and smacked him squarely in the side of the head in the middle of a song. The singer was displeased and pointed the offender out to security guards, who removed him from the concert.
Tickets to Saturday’s show range from $29 to $99 and are available at www.selectaseat.com, by calling 316-755-7328 or at the Select-a-Seat box office at Intrust Bank Arena.
Korn and Breaking Benjamin, 7 p.m. Sunday
Every time Breaking Benjamin comes to town of late, another big rock band is with them. In 2015, they performed at Intrust Bank Arena on a ticket with Shinedown. In 2018, they were back with Five Finger Death Punch.
This time, the band will share billing on its Winter Tour 2020 with Korn, a metal band from California that’s been around since the late 1980s and is known for songs like “You’ll Never Find Me” and “Here to Stay.” The group has won two Grammys.
Wichita favorites Breaking Benjamin, who hail from Pennsylvania and have been rocking since the late 1990s, will also perform from their library of hits, which includes “Shallow Bay.
The group Bones UK will open the show.
Tickets range from $39 to $69 and are available at www.selectaseat.com, by calling 316-755-7328 or at the Select-a-Seat box office at Intrust Bank Arena.
KISS, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19
It’s been more than 40 years since the famous December 1977 KISS concert at Wichita’s Henry Levitt Arena — a concert that those who were in attendance are still talking about to this day.
Yet the band is still touring, and Wichita is still buying tickets.
This is it, for real, though, the band says. Their End of the Road tour started in January of last year and is set to end in July of 2021, a show that a countdown clock on the KISS website is tracking in weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
Band members Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer still perform in their full makeup and costumes and are still delivering hits like “Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It Out Loud” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.”
Former Van Halen front man David Lee Roth will open the show.
KISS was last in Wichita in 2016.
Tickets range from $39.50 to $250 and are available at www.selectaseat.com, by calling 316-755-7328 or at the Select-a-Seat box office at Intrust Bank Arena.
This story was originally published February 12, 2020 at 10:25 AM.
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