Deep Purple and Kansas Set to Rock Pine Knob Music Theatre This August

Deep Purple will perform with Kansas at Pine Knob Music Theatre on Friday, August 21 at 6:15 p.m. Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 2 at 10 a.m.

Fans can buy tickets at 313Presents.com, LiveNation.com, and Ticketmaster.com. Pine Knob Music Theatre is presented by Proud Partners United Wholesale Mortgage, Trinity Health, and Ally.

Deep Purple has sold more than 100 million albums. Stadiums and arenas have welcomed them for decades. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the group in 2016. At the 2008 World Music Awards, they received the Legend Award.

The British rockers have put out music spanning seven decades. The MKII lineup of Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, and Ritchie Blackmore created Made In Japan, one of the most important live albums of all time.

Since 1968, they've kept making albums and touring. Over two million albums sold in the past 10 years. Four straight number one albums in Germany during that same stretch.

Kansas has a career spanning five decades. Wally Gold discovered the Topeka garage band, and they put out their debut album in 1974. Gold worked for Don Kirshner.

The American rock act has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Their catalogue includes 16 studio albums and five live albums.

Kansas has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums, one platinum live album, one quadruple-Platinum single and another triple-Platinum single. Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, and Best of Kansas all reached sextuple-Platinum status.

They showed up on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe, and Japan welcomed them.

Carry On Wayward Son continues to be one of the top five most played songs on classic rock radio. Dust In the Wind has been played on the radio more than three million times.