Whiskey Shivers and Lyndsay Nissen will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at DG’s Tap House. Admission is free.

The night will be dedicated to bluegrass music as the Austin, Texas-based group Whiskey Shivers will headline the show.

One of the group’s inspirations is a great audience, and banjo player James Bookert explained how the members can get a crowd pumped up during a show.

“It’s almost like the eighth-grade dance effect,” Bookert said. “From our point of view, when we’re performing it’s like before everyone really gets into the dance you have the girls and the guys on different sides of the room and you make that first initial ice breaker thing. Then everyone’s involved, and the energy’s so much better.”

Below is a video of Whiskey Shivers performing a cover of “My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” uploaded by LiveandBreathing on YouTube.

Along with its live shows, the band has also released two albums and has been mentioned in articles in publications such as Rolling Stone and The Washington Post.

The band takes its music to places all around the country, and Bookert explained how fans of the band contribute to the touring experience. 

“It’s surreal,” Bookert said. “People are surprisingly supportive of musicians, and I hope that we give the same thing back to them.”

Below are some of the group’s songs on its Reverb Nation page.

Along with the group’s passion for the audience comes a love for the music itself. 

“There is something that is so cool about the immediacy of that [bluegrass music] that to me is important,” Bookert said. “It’s like a way of communication; it’s so raw and it’s just happening right in front of you.”

Bookert also mentioned the similarities bluegrass has in common with other genres. He explained that the songwriting process is similar to rock and blues.

“Blues, punk rock and rock ‘n’ roll, structurally, they are really similar,” Bookert said. “We’ve all played in rock bands, and to me, the song writing is the same.”

To find out more about the show, visit the DG’s Tap House website.