Kansas at Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center — July 17, 1996

Thirty years ago, two titans of ’70s arena rock shared the bill at the Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua. Kansas brought the symphonic muscle of “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind”; Styx countered with “Come Sail Away,” “Renegade,” and “Mr. Roboto.” It was a double dose of the era’s grandest, most ambitious rock — soaring vocals, virtuoso musicianship, and singalong choruses — under the summer sky at one of the region’s signature amphitheaters.