This group was wonderful!!! It’s nine blokes in an Ireland pub singing a variety of pop, rock and jazz with a few basic instruments. Their voices are the main wonderful event. Carlsen Center has events most weekends. They have a variety of styles, and tastes in their presentations and at decent prices, so look at them on the weekend here in the southwest KC suburbs and see what they have.

The Carlson Center presents a wide variety of entertainment, really something for everyone, including classical, rock and jazz music. There are no bad seats for sight or sound. Parking is free and ticket prices are reasonable. We go about once a month. In addition to buying tickets to see familiar artists we often try something unfamiliar because of the venue and confidence from our excellent experiences there.

List is the first event we have attended at the smaller Polsky Theatre. Enjoyed at wonderful evening in an intimate environment listening to a great artist. Amazingly well ran event, everything was perfect. Highly recommend the venue.

JCCC provides us with top notch entertainment in good theaters. Free covered parking and easily accessible- right on College Blvd in Overland Park. Many choices of different types of entertainment.

This has become one of our favorite venues in the Kansas City metro area because they have some great shows, it’s usually easy-in and easy out, the prices are reasonable (especially compared to downtown venues), and it’s a nice place. They offer a great variety of arts events including concerts, internationally- and nationally-known artists, as well as some offbeat shows you won’t see anywhere else. There’s almost never any appreciable lines to get in, add-on service fees are low or nonexistent, and they occasionally even offer free shows. Located on the campus of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan., Carlsen encompasses two venues: 1,250-seat Yardley Hall, and the more intimate 400-seat Polsky Theatre. Both have comfortable seats and good views from about anywhere in the house. Parking is free and is mostly in twin two-story lots on either side of the front door at the north end of the building, and if you park on the lower level, you can enter underground and don’t even have to go outside. Once or twice when we’ve been there, they’ve had multiple campus events at the same time, and we’ve had to hunt parking further away, but that’s definitely been the exception. Here’s a money saving tip - for the past few years over the Black Friday weekend, the community college has run an online sale where all shows scheduled at Carlsen between January and April are half price. We’ve taken advantage of this not only to buy tickets for ourselves, but also to get some as holiday gifts, and they’ve been very well received. To wrap this up, we unreservedly recommend this venue, and already have tickets for future events!