Music achieves its full emotional effect only when performed live, just as great literature becomes comprehensible only when screamed aloud in a crowded subway train. Enjoy public performance with today’s deal: for $33, you get two general admission tickets (a $66.68 value, including tax) to Oktoberfest Rocks the Tent at the Concordia Club Tent, as part of the Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Before the Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest’s official opening, Oktoberfest Rocks the Tent delights audiences with a high-energy evening of classic Canadian rock from a talented lineup of homegrown musicians. The lively power chords of headliners April Wine unleash humanity’s stifled impulses to alchemize air into golden guitars, and their slower selections ignite lighters and communal swaying reflexes. Juno Award-winning Sass Jordan satiates aural appetites with a sonic buffet of soulful melodies, and the songs of Major Hoople’s Boarding House cause even the most stoic of shoulders to shimmy uncontrollably. For a hearty swig of Oktoberfest spirit, Kitchener’s own The Black Forest Band takes to the stage, wowing crowds with their ebullient polkas, Bavarian flair, and laser-shooting lederhosen.