Moors & McCumber folk

Who: Moors & McCumber

When: Saturday night

Where: Motherloaded Tavern, Breckenridge

Where'd the name come from? Kort McCumber & James Moors (the last names of both people in the group)

Home base: Kort lives in Gold Hill, Colo., and James lives in Superior, Wis.

Type of music: Americana/folk rock

If your music were a tangible item, what would it be, and why? A winding mountain road because this music takes you places, and you're not sure what lies ahead but you know you're gonna like it.

Why do people love ya? Great energy on stage, great music and rich harmonies.

How do you keep it fresh? Writing great songs and only playing about two to three tours together a year.

What's the craziest thing you've done/weirdest experience? Too many to name — playing music all over the country pretty much explains.

Soul Patch at Snake

After a successful reunion show at Paramount Cafe in Denver in September, Soul Patch has decided to keep the “trans-am funk rock” music going. The band features members of the popular Denver funk band U.S. Pipe. Soul Patch plays at the Snake River Saloon tonight and Saturday.

“I always had a great time when we played at the Snake River Saloon with U.S. Pipe and thought it would be a great place to do Soul Patch reunion shows,” said Missy Gutreuter, lead singer in Soul Patch.

Soul Patch played from 1998 to 2007, when they broke up. They've played regionally, as well as at the Hard Rock Cafe and House of Blues in Los Angeles. The name represents how music can make you feel better, or patch your soul.

“We play good, heartfelt rock ‘n' roll, and just when you're least expecting, we'll make it funky and make you dance,” she said. “We just started playing with each other again, so everything is fresh again, and everyone has more experience to add.”

Transcendental folk

Who: Elephant Revival with Rojos Caliente

When: Wednesday

Where: three20south, Breckenridge

Where'd the name come from? In the spring of 2005, Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo decided to ship one of its two elephants to the Salt Lake City, Utah, Zoo. While the majestic creature was in transport, the elephant died somewhere upon a mountain pass in Wyoming. The very same day, the elephant's partner at the Lincoln Park Zoo passed away. The telepathic connection between these two elephants is quite evolved. Love is often beyond description. The Elephant Revival's mission is to close the gap of separation between us through the eternal source of song and dance (revelry). We are all participants in this eternal dance, the creation of this sacred song, creators of the world in which we live. This is our dream!

Home base: Nederland.

Who are you? The eclectic quintet plays a unique blend of original songs in an emerging new musical genre called transcendental folk. As music producer Dalton Frank elaborates, “There's this new paradigm of consciousness occurring, akin to the excitement that was going on in the mid ‘60s. There's excitement bubbling in the hearts of the people of this generation. Elephant Revival is helping to write the soundtrack of these changing times.

The group is currently finishing production of its second studio album in Lyons with a pending spring 2010 release date. Excitement is still fresh from the band's ‘self-titled' debut, which is still receiving radio play. As Boulder Weekly entertainment writer Dave Kirby says, “The album brims with poised folk ballads, modern Celtic fiddle dirges, hints of blues and Appalachia ... coaxing the spirit but slyly avoiding climbing fully into each form's body.”

If your music were a tangible item, what would it be, and why? A tree: The roots run deep. The branches expand outward toward the infinite.

Why do people love ya? People love us because we love people. It's a reciprocating relationship.

How do you keep it fresh? We keep it fresh by writing new songs and creatively integrating them into our sets. Also, by traveling to new places across the country. In 2010 we will begin to tour all across the world, as preparations are already underway for tours in Germany and Scotland. We also keep it fresh by maintaining a light footprint wherever we go, holding in high regards sustainable evolution in the lifestyle of the touring musician.

What's the craziest thing you've done/weirdest experience? Reality is quite often the craziest experience we've encountered, for it is all subject to the interpretation of the observer, of which we are five individual observers within an entity known as Elephant Revival. However, the time we rode in on the back of elephants at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee was quite intriguing; Bobo The Clown was there.

Knucka Breck and Frisco bound

Who: Knucka

When and where: Thursday at three20south in Breckenridge and Dec. 11 at The Moosejaw in Frisco

Where'd the name come from? Our harmonica player's dog.

Home base: Pagosa Springs.

Type of music: We are a rock band, influenced by blues, punk, metal, country and about anything else you can think of, all mixed into one big fat smoothie. We are five guys who just can't seem to stop playing music.

If your music were a tangible item, what would it be, and why? It would be a rock, a big lopsided rock, because we like to rock. We may even rock your socks off.

Why do people love ya? Because we rock their socks off.

What's the craziest thing you've done/weirdest experience? We would be in jail if we told.