JCCC Welcomes
The Republic Tigers 
with special guest Ad Astra Per Aspera

Friday, December 4, 2009
7 p.m. in the Carlsen Center Polsky Theatre
Tickets are $5 with a valid JCCC student I.D.
and $10 for the general public

Ticket sales are October 26, 2009 through November 6, 2009 for JCCC students only. Available at the Student Activities Desk (SC 106). Hours: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

General public ticket sale begins November 9, 2009 at the Student Activities Desk (SC 106) and the Carlsen Center Box Office (913-469-4445).

"It's a sound that's half organic and half synthetic, kind of like how all of our lives are now," says singer/multi-instrumentalist Kenn Jankowski. "It's the common theme throughout all of the songs and we tried to approach it audibly well."

With their Chop Shop Records debut album, Keep Color, The Republic Tigers have arrived with an impressive breadth of vision that instantly marks them as something extraordinary. Epic yet intimate, tracks like "Made Concrete" and the towering "Buildings & Mountains" see the Kansas City-based quintet weaving future folk, euphoric psychedelic, and exuberant symphonic pop with intricately crafted electronic textures and uncommon emotional depth. The result is a bold and beautiful collection of strikingly human music that holds an aural mirror to our ever more technologically integrated society.

Opening for Republic Tigers will be Ad Astra Per Aspera. Good music lasts and good bands evolve. After seven years and over two hundred shows, Ad Astra Per Aspera is more than music: it's an all-ages, open-invitation collective dedicated to all things small, epic, lakeside and beautiful. It's a collection of inside jokes, broken down vans, mix tapes, prank calls, histories and pre-histories that snowballs through all seasons.