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While most people associate the steel guitar with country music, it has in fact been used in House of God Keith Dominion churches for 60 years. On their ’97 debut, Pass Me Not, the Campbell Brothers and Katie Jackson show off the exhilarating power of this Pentecostal approach. Using a modified steel guitar with E-bow, wah-wah, and fuzz pedal, Chuck Campbell serves up wailing distortion that seems to meld B.B. King and Funkadelic with traditional Sunday morning gospel colorings. Aided by his brother Darick on lap steel and two more relatives in the rhythm section, Chuck and family conjure up sounds that echo both the husky-voiced, sanctified vocals of Katie Jackson and the roar and whistle of a train bound for the promised land. At 6 p.m. in the Kennedy Center’s Grand Foyer. Free. (202) 467-4600. (Steve Kiviat)