Sarah Jacober

Rollinsville

Elephant Revival will play at the Stage Stop, 60 Main Street in Rollinsville, at 
8 p.m., Sunday, October 21. The cost is $20 plus fees.

That simple line atop Elephant Revival's Facebook page contains only five words, but reveals volumes about the band's reason for being. Music unites us in ways that no other medium can. Even when we don't understand one another's languages, we can be moved by a rhythm or soothed by a song. Brought together by a unified sense of purpose, the spirit of five souls working as one, in harmony, creating sounds they could never produce alone.

The five souls in Elephant Revival are Sage Cook (banjo, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, bass and fiddle); Bridget Law (fiddle, octave fiddle); Bonnie Paine (washboard, djembe, musical saw, stompbox); Daniel Rodriguez (guitar, banjo, bass); and Dango Rose (double-bass, mandolin, banjo). All share vocals and write songs. Paine delivers additional beats via footstomps on plywood, her stockinged feet doing near jigs as her hands, encased in antique leather gloves, rub silver nickel against corrugated metal.

This Nederland quintet is, needless to say, quite a sight to experience, especially when they fall into the pocket of a groove containing elements of gypsy, rock, Celtic, alt-country and folk.

Ruff Shod/Network recording artists Elephant Revival are releasing “It's Alive,” a seven-song EP, plus an illustrated hardcover songbook containing lyrics from the Colorado quintet's first two albums and the EP. For more information call 303-258-0649 or go to www.elephantrevival.com.