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Thursday, November 15, 8 p.m.
Jam Band Night: Blue Sky Mission Club, with People of Earth at the Kent Stage

General Admission tickets are $15

This night is all about that simplest of musical impulses: playing music that just makes people love to dance. Blue Sky Mission Club combines soul, country, zydeco and rock traditions with pointed social commentary and jumping-zydeco-pop beats. Their three-part vocal harmonies, combined with powerful lap steel guitar, roaring accordion and old-time fiddle, provide music that shakes, bumps and makes you want to two step all night long.

They’re joined by People of Earth, a western Pennsylvania-based quartet that combines creative instrumentation and genre-transcending arrangements and melodies with elements of funk, jazz, disco, bluegrass and improvisation. Their original lyrics are thought-provoking, if you can stop dancing that long.