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Weekend Roundup ☀️
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Happy Friday! Here are 11 ways to cure your boredom this weekend:
All Weekend Long
🧑🌾 Farmers Markets - Sunday kicks off National Farmers Market Week (August 2-9), so be sure to visit one of the many great weekend markets throughout the metro!
🤠 KC Invitational Black Rodeo - The Kansas City Invitational Black Rodeo returns to Hale Arena for its second year, celebrating the legacy and modern excellence of Black cowboys and cowgirls through bull riding, barrel racing, steer wrestling, team roping, and bulldogging.
🎌 AnimeVerse Fest - Kansas City's anime and gaming convention takes over the KCI Expo Center with 100+ vendors, cosplay contests, panels, celebrity guests, TCG tournaments, and collectibles galore.
🎭 High School Musical Jr. — First Act KC - First Act KC closes out its summer season with Disney's High School Musical Jr. Troy, Gabriella, and the Wildcats take the stage at MidAmerica Nazarene University, performed by KC's next generation of theater talent.
Friday
🎸 Darius Rucker: Songs of Summer Tour - The Hootie & the Blowfish frontman turned country superstar brings his Songs of Summer Tour to Starlight — "Wagon Wheel," "Alright," "Hold My Hand," and more under the stars.
Saturday
🍸 Social House Grand Opening - The premium neighborhood cocktail bar in North Hyde Park opens to the public from 4-12pm, with food provided by Devoured Pizza.
🎶 Celebrate Ameri'Kana Music & Arts Festival - Now in its fourth year, Celebrate Ameri'Kana brings Grammy-winning artists to Concourse Park in KC's Historic Northeast: Making Movies, Radkey, Gina Chávez, Rosie Flores, and more.
🪄 Sporting KC vs. Houston Dynamo — Harry Potter Night - A magical night at Sporting Park, it’s Harry Potter Night! Kickoff is at 7:30pm, with a limited-edition Harry Potter scarf included with promo ticket packages.
🎸 Turnpike Troubadours - The beloved Red Dirt country band brings their anthemic Oklahoma sound to Starlight Theatre at 7pm, with Muscadine Bloodline and Dexter and the Moonrocks opening.
⚽️ KC Current vs. Angel City FC - Fresh off their 5-1 victory on Wednesday, the Current welcome Angel City FC to CPKC Stadium at 5:30pm for Educator Appreciation Night.
Sunday
🪕 Mumford & Sons - The British folk-rock giants bring their sweeping sound and full-throttle live show to the Morton Amphitheater starting at 7:30 pm, with Medium Build opening.
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Arts
What’s On Stage in August Across Kansas City?
Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman
The following column is graciously provided by Mark Edelman, the founder and president of Theater League. Mark is a playwright who loves writing about theater.
As back-to-school rolls around again, KC theater companies begin their upcoming seasons and finish off the summer’s fun! Try one of these theater experiences before the Fall falls upon us all:
Wicked
August 12-30 | Music Hall
Stephen Schwartz’s magnum opus and one of the most successful Broadway musicals (and now a two-part film) lands in downtown Kansas City, just east of where the whole Dorothy saga started in Kansas. L. Frank Baum had no idea how far that balloon would travel.
Legally Blonde
July 2 – September 6 | New Theatre Restaurant
Overland Park’s own Broadway star Hayley Podschun—so great as Galinda in “Wicked” in NYC and on tour—trades in her Emerald City wardrobe for the smart attire of a Harvard Law School grad student. Dumped by her high school boyfriend who thinks she’s a dumb blonde, Hayley as Elle Woods follows the cad to Cambridge, where the Malibu princess turns out to be one smart cookie.
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House Hunch 🏠
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The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium is hosting its Wine Walk for Wildlife, an after-hours party throughout the zoo with 40 different types of wine to sample.
Pending city approval, Duff’s Irish Golf will bring a 9-hole Irish Golf course, a wiffle ball field, and a pub to Parkville.
KC Bier Co. has opened its second location in Lenexa, with a massive bierhalle and biergarten at 18030 W. 98th St.
The Excelsior Springs Chamber Trolley is offering wine tours, taking you along a guided tour to some of the region’s top wineries.
Panther’s Place, the beloved Westside bar decked out with greenery and good vibes, will relocate “a few miles west” at the end of October.
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— Nick Hageman | Co-Founder @ KC Daily
