Train rolls into Riverside's brand-new Morton Amphitheater on Wednesday, bringing a 25th-anniversary celebration of “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” to a Kansas City-area stage that only opened its gates two months ago. The San Francisco-based pop-rock band, formed in 1993, is on a 39-city run dubbed the Drops of Jupiter: 25 Years in the Atmosphere tour, and frontman Pat Monahan says the crowds keep getting younger.
According to The Kansas City Star, Monahan, 57 and the band's only original member remaining, has noticed teenagers and young adults filling out audiences, including fans who learned Train from their parents or in childhood. The Star reports Monahan wants to keep writing songs that Train fans want to hear, even as he leans into nostalgia for the album that made the band a household name. That balancing act is on full display this summer, as Train mixes career-spanning hits with brand-new material from an album still weeks from release.
A New Home for Big Shows in Riverside
The venue itself is part of the story. Morton Amphitheater cost $120 million to build and spans 135 acres in Riverside, Missouri, according to architectural design profiles published by Generator Studio. Its signature feature is a 100,000-square-foot canopy roof that shelters 12,000 of the venue's 16,000-person capacity, giving Kansas City its largest live music venue built in nearly two decades.
According to Starlight Theatre’s official history, the Kansas City venue opened in 1950 and became a nonprofit organization in 1951, offering an earlier local example of a major outdoor performance venue.
Tickets for Wednesday's show remain available through Ticketmaster, per the Star's reporting, with prices ranging widely depending on location. General admission lawn seats start at $24.75, while covered general admission lawn tickets run $40.50. Seated options climb from $78.25 to $100.45 for 200-level seats, $100.45 to $122 for 100-level seats, and $115.83 to $122 for front-of-stage seats.
A Family Milestone on the Road
Monahan's 14-year-old son, Rock Richard Monahan, has been joining the band onstage during the tour, the Star reports. Just five days before the Riverside stop, on Aug. 7, the younger Monahan played alongside country music icon Keith Urban during Train's Chicago show — a moment that's become part of the tour's own narrative about generational continuity within the band.
The current lineup mixes longtime members with a recent addition: bassist and vocalist Hector Maldonado, keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Becker, and drummer Matt Musty round out the group alongside guitarist and vocalist Butch Walker, who previously produced albums and co-wrote songs with Train. Wednesday's setlist is expected to draw on the band's deep catalog, including “50 Ways to Say Goodbye,” “Drive By,” “Hey, Soul Sister,” and of course “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” itself — though Train has not disclosed whether the Kansas City show will include any special surprises.
New Music Meets a Milestone Anniversary
Train's album “Drops of Jupiter” is three-time RIAA-certified, a commercial run that has made it one of Train's defining songs. The band is set to release its 12th studio album, “Mad Dog in the Fog,” on Aug. 28 — its first full-length release since 2022. Monahan has said he's received great feedback on new songs including “The Weekend,” “Pennsylvania Turnpike,” and the title track “Mad Dog in the Fog,” all of which are shaping up to give this anniversary tour a forward-looking edge alongside the nostalgia.
Kansas City audiences will get a rare mix Wednesday: a band marking a quarter-century milestone while previewing songs from its forthcoming album. For longtime fans who've followed Train since “Drops of Jupiter” first hit radio, and for the younger crowd Monahan says keeps showing up, the Morton Amphitheater, which already hosted its first show on June 1, 2026, offers a chance to see both eras collide under one very large canopy.
