Outerspace Band to land at Northport benefit dance

An “out-of-this-world” dance party will land Saturday at the Blue Goose, Route 1 in Northport.

The Outerspace Band, a jam band that’s been performing for 32 years, will play at the benefit dance from 8 p.m. to midnight. Proceeds from the chem-free event at one of Maine’s best-known dance floors will support the work of the Film Farm, a film and video production company in Belfast.

“I’m really excited to be teamed up with such a talented, established group of musicians, who also happen to have an irreverent sense of humor,” said Nicolle Littrell, Film Farm’s founder.

Proceeds from the evening will go toward production costs of the company’s first short film. To be shot in the midcoast area, the film will tell the story, set in the 1920s, of a Maine native who is a hunter and trapper, and the Boston ballerina he marries.

“When the film opens, she’s tiring of backwoods life, and wants to return to Boston to dance,” Littrell explained. “The film is about the couple’s co-dependent relationship.”

Outerspace’s recent release of its CD “Rocket” finds the band setting its Grateful Dead-meets-the-Neville Brothers dance grooves to a broad range of original songs.

In recent years, allying themselves with community-based efforts seeking to raise both the roof and needed funds has become an increasingly common occurrence for Outerspace.

“For us, it means the sense that the gigs are doing something proactive within the communities where they occur,” keyboardist EliotOsborn said. “It works well for everybody and since Outerspace sightings are few and far between, it lends a kind of special quality to the evening.”

Admission is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Advance tickets are available in Belfast at The Belfast Co-op, Fertile Mind and Mr. Paperback; in Camden at Wild Rufus; and at the Grasshopper Shop in Rockland, Ellsworth, Bangor and Stonington. For more information, contact Nicolle Littrell at Film Farm at 338-0654.