KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since 2012, have announced the official date for the 2026 events. Friday March 13 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd) and miniBar (3810 Broadway Blvd) and Saturday March 14 at recordBar in Kansas City, Missouri.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
Outer Reaches Announces Three Night Festival with Headliner Negativland
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since 2012, have announced the official date for the 2024 events. Friday September 20 at miniBar (3810 Broadway Blvd), Saturday September 21 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd), and Sunday September 22 at Charlotte Street (3333 Wyoming St.) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the festivities of Outer Reaches 2024.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The marquee Saturday September 21 show at recordBar features performances by two legendary groups with their origins in the late 1970s. Experimental music ensemble Negativland headline the night, joined by live cinema artist SUE-C handling the visuals. Negativland’s self-titled sound collage debut was released out of California’s Bay Area in 1980 and over the next four decades the group have been steadily releasing uncommon concept albums combining original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture, along the way challenging convention (and American copyright laws). Athens, Georgia’s Pylon Reenactment Society feature members of legendary 1980s post-punk jangle pop group Pylon and pop rock group Casper & The Cookies. The group tours in support of their critically acclaimed new album Magnet Factory, while also performing classic Pylon tracks.
For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. Full three-day ticket is available here. Single day ticket for the Saturday recordBar show is available here. The wait list for the free Sunday film viewing is available here. The Facebook event is available here. Follow the Outer Reaches website or Facebook page for updates on Outer Reaches 2024.
Outer Reaches Announces Boundary-Pushing Music Festival Featuring Bombino & Sweeping Promises
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since 2012, have announced the official date for the 2023 events. Friday October 13 and Saturday October 14 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the festivities of Outer Reaches 2023.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The Friday October 13 headliner is the sound of Sahara’s next generation, Bombino. Omara “Bombino” Moctar is a Tuareg singersongwriter and guitarist from Niger. On a world tour for his new album Sahel, he continues the momentum of 2018’s Deran which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Friday’s lineup also features Kansas City psychedelic rock bands The Philistines and Saving Miles Lemon as well as indie-folk multi-instrumentalist Teri Quinn. XO Blackwater will provide the video projection and visuals for the evening.
The Saturday October 14 show is a two-stage event. The Les BonsBons Electrique stage features a headliner of Lawrence, Kansas post-punk / new wave duo Sweeping Promises. Their new album Good Living is Coming for You was released in June on Feel it Records / Sub Pop Records. They are joined by Wichita, Kansas neo soul group Keo & Them, Kansas City shoegaze / new wave / post-punk duo Static Phantoms, and Kansas City synth-tastic beat guru Alyssa Murray. The Kansas City Synthesizer Collective is a group of local synthesizer enthusiasts who enjoy sharing and performing what they have learned from their generated audio signal instruments. Their stage features performances by three local artists: Wrker, Agrekulture, and Bobcat Attack. A headlining slot is reserved for Detroit, Michigan post-punk bizarro-pop group Summer Like the Season.
For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. The show is 18+ (under 18 with a guardian). Advanced ticket options are available at the recordBar location and website. Friday 10/13 show is $20 (advanced) / $25 (day of show), plus fees – Friday Facebook event / ticket info. Saturday 10/14 is $15 plus fees – Facebook event / ticket info. Follow the Outer Reaches website or Facebook page for updates on Outer Reaches 2023.
