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It was COOL to see Kool & The Gang and Starship at Wichita Riverfest!

Our Gen X Life | March 20, 2026



Join us for our city’s annual summer festival, Riverfest 2024 in Wichita, Kansas. We’re excited to see two legendary bands from the 1980s, Starship and Kool & The Gang, perform LIVE in our hometown! This weeklong festival on the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita is Kansas’ biggest outdoor party, and we’re bringing you along for all the concert highlights (without the crowds!)

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Music by Starship and Kool & The Gang

Additional music provided by Epidemic Sound:
Nomad’s Dance – Ludvig Moulin

Written by Our Gen X Life

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  1. @joswaltaudio

    March 20, 2026 at 8:47 am

    I've worked for Starship for a couple of years now. Usually I mix monitors for the band, but on this particular show, I head the pleasure of doing their FOH mix for the crowd, and it was one of the funnest shows I've gotten to mix with them. Glad you got to enjoy them!

  2. @bigalcincinnatikidadventur7692

    March 20, 2026 at 8:47 am

    AWESOME!!! I want to see Kool & The Gang myself. Fresh is one of my favorites from them along with a few other that I saw on this video, including Jungle Boogie!!! I saw Starship perform live twice at festivals in Cincy, and I actually got to meet Mickey Thomas and got an autograph CD from him. He was a very nice guy!!! You know, We Built This City gets a lot of hate, now what's up with that???? But at least we love it!!!

  3. @btetschner

    March 20, 2026 at 8:47 am

    x That Kool & The Gang concert looked awesome, very Kool! lol
    x Really cool you worked at the historical society, that is an awesome buidling!
    x Two of my favorite music videos of all-time are "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship!
    o Interestingly there is a point in "We Built This City" where the statue of Abraham Lincoln becomes alive…just like the mannequin coming to life in the music video "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" !
    o The largest city named after Abraham Lincoln is Lincoln, Nebraska, whose dollar theater (when it was running) was Star ship.
    † I went on a first date at Star Ship and we saw Dead Man On Campus, a film that starred doomed freshman Josh Miller.

  4. @SPTO

    March 20, 2026 at 8:47 am

    This is pretty cool. Kool and the Gang was a band that was pretty popular with my family. There was a period of 2-3 years where their song "Cherish" was the wedding song for my extended family.

    A couple years ago I re-listened to the album with that song and I got turned on to "emergency" after hating the heck out of it LOL

    EDIT Whoa the audio quality is NIIIIICE! Usually when ppl in the crowd record a concert you can't make out crap. Good job here.

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