Jam band The Disco Biscuits show ‘Why We Dance’ at F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on March 28
From a press release:
While Camp Bisco seems to have had its last dance, Philadelphia jam band and festival founders The Disco Biscuits will be back in Northeastern Pennsylvania to perform at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday, March 28 as part of their 2024 Why We Dance Tour.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets, which are $34.50, $39.50, $44.50, and $49.50, plus applicable fees, go on sale this Friday, Dec. 8 at noon at the Kirby Center box office (71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre), online at kirbycenter.org and ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 570-826-1100. A Kirby Member pre-sale begins on Thursday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m.
Sold online only, a VIP experience package is also available for $144.50, plus fees, and includes one general admission ticket, early entry to the venue and access to merch, a pre-show soundcheck, a group photo with the band, a limited edition show poster, and a commemorative laminate and lanyard.
The Disco Biscuits are an entirely different band today than they were when they first broke out of Philadelphia in the mid-1990s. That’s not to say that they’ve abandoned their foundations, switched gears entirely, or set sail for distant shores.
They are still very much the trailblazers of “trancefusion” that they’ve always been, bridging the gap between electronic music and jam bands. They remain rock pioneers whose soul belongs as much to marathon dance parties as it does to live improvisational journeys. They still employ emerging technologies to help them create music that is 100 percent human, although perhaps not entirely of this Earth.
The Disco Biscuits’ annual music festival, Camp Bisco, came to The Pavilion at Montage Mountain and the adjacent Montage Mountain Waterpark in 2015 and made Scranton its home. 2020 would have been the 18th annual event, but it was canceled due to the pandemic, so they played back-to-back drive-in concerts in the Montage parking lot instead. Camp Bisco was canceled again in 2021; in its place, the band opted to bring their City Bisco event back to The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philly that same weekend. Camp Bisco has remained dormant since, though the band has returned to NEPA several times since.
See NEPA Scene’s Camp Bisco photos from 2019 here.
The F.M. Kirby Center is a historic Art Deco/Moderne-style performing arts center located in downtown Wilkes-Barre. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
