Concerts That Changed Your Life | Amy Farrand

Eight One Sixty w/ Chris Haghirian

Every July on the Eight One Sixty, we do a deep dive into a month-long series of shows, and we're doing it again this year. Over the next four weeks, Chris will sit down with four different musicians (via Zoom) and they'll tell us about the concerts that changed their lives!

This week, we caught up with longtime KC musician Amy Farrand of Amy Farrand and The Like and so many different bands over the years. She was recently quarantined in Italy for several months and has just returned home to KC. We’ll hear a little about her time in Italy, and then we’ll jump into her list of five concerts that changed her life. She’s picked a song from each act to spin on the show.

Here are the dates of the shows from her list:
July 6, 1984 — Michael Jackson at Arrowhead Stadium
Sept. 13, 1991 — Paul Simon at Sandstone
Aug. 4, 2006 — Tom Waits at The Orpheum Theatre (Memphis)
Nov. 9, 2009 — Leonard Cohen at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
June 7, 2018 — David Byrne at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Over the next few weeks we’ll sit down with Marty Hilliard of EBONY TUSKS, Addie Sartino of The Greeting Committee and Isaac Flynn of Hembree and ask them the same question we asked Amy — what concerts changed your life?