Blue Sky Mission Club
Zydeco/Soul-Grass/Americana/Reggae
'practicing the age-old tradition of playing music people want to dance to'

LIVE @ THE HEMPEN HILL BBQ - Hagerstown, MD
JULY 26, SATURDAY - 9pm
http://www.myspace.com/blueskymissionclub
http://www.hempenhillbbq.com

As an original Zydeco/Soul-Grass/Reggae band BSMC's instrumentation includes Lap/Pedal Steel, Fiddle, Accordion, Scrubboard, Bass and Drums. BSMC covers a wide audience demographic and as is guaranteed to have the entire crowd partying and dancing throughout the show.

-Blue Sky Mission Club has/will be performing at the following venues;
House of Blues -FL
The Hickory Blue Grass Festival -PA
The Great Blue Heron Festival -NY
Skippers Smokehouse-FL
Hempstock, FreedomFest, HarvestFest -ME
Edinboro Arts & Music Festival -PA
Sterling Stage Folkfest -NY
Ithaca Fest -NY
Nelsons Ledges Quarry Park -OH
Kent State Folk Fest -OH
The Purple Fiddle -WV
Hempen Hill -MD
in addition to many other great festivals and club dates...

A festival band by nature, we work with our local community to host a festival in Ithaca NY, known as Musefest ( http://www.musefest.org ). The Musefest has been gaining popularity since its humble beginnings in the year 2000, and works to benefit many performers and organizations local to Ithaca NY and beyond.

Blue Sky Mission Club has shared the stage with a number of international artists including Old Crow Medicine Show, Donna the Buffalo, Rusted Root, Peter Rowan, Tony Trischka, The Avett Brothers, Buckweat Zydeco, and The Campbell Brothers, Big Leg Emma.. to name a few.

Blue Sky Mission Club
http://www.myspace.com/blueskymissionclub
Jeff Tripoli - drums/booking
JeffTripoli@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/TripsTraps
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Blue Sky Mission Club Live Video Link:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=16215953
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More Press:
Syracuse drummer, Jeff Tripoli has caught on with a hip band. Ithaca-based Blue Sky Mission Club has been making music under the guidance of founder London McDaniel since 2004. In fact, the band’s 2006 CD “Riding the Horizon” is a happy, rollicking debut album that will undoubtedly get the feet moving. But the roster has changed in the past year. Besides the addition of Jeff Tripoli on drums, McDaniel’s strong voice and guitar work also leads Tonya Byham on vocals and scrub board, Rob Delphus on accordion and scrub board, Coleman Smith on fiddle and Frank Henry on bass.
They just finished a three song EP that takes the roots rock vibe to neat places. “Dance with me Sister” adds horns and a light jazz feel to Byham’s lovely vocals. “Down and out” throbs like a swampy love song as she sings, “You may think I’m Dreaming/But I couldn’t love you any deeper than I do”. And “Run Away Tonight” is a sweet march that strides into a pop-friendly feel. Trip, as the drummer is called, brings the rest of the Mission to Central New York this month. Get ready to groove with roots, rock, zydeco, soul and the blues.”
By Mark Bialczak
The Syracuse Post-Standard
February 3, 2008

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