LONG BEACH, Wash. — Seven-piece folk orchestra Patchy Sanders will perform two nights at the Pickled Fish restaurant, located at the top of the Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive. You can catch this Ashland-based band’s musical storytelling, haunting lyrics and lively dance tunes live at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 and at 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19.

This is the first time Patchy Sanders will perform at the Adrift Hotel, and the band loves quirky, inventive, intentional venues with lots of character. “The Adrift has an added bonus with the revitalization of an old building into something beautifully new. We also love being by any body of water, and to play music by the Pacific Ocean will be a real treat,” the band said in an email. “We’re so excited to present our music to new folks in Long Beach at such a unique and gorgeous location.”

You can also catch the band on the air; Patchy Sanders will perform on KMUN 91.9 FM at 11 a.m. Friday, featured on Albert Smith’s “Friday Folk” radio show.

Patchy Sanders released its debut album, “& The Wild Peach Forest,” in the fall of 2013, produced by Sylvia Massy (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Tool) in Weed, California. The band plays at least 11 instruments at any one show, including the traditional banjo, guitar and mandolin, and the album features additional mystical instruments, such as the harp, pedal organ and Swedish nyckelharpa.

The group started as a 12-piece conglomeration of musicians attending a songwriter boot camp in the hills outside Ashland; the band has since consolidated into its current seven-piece formation. It’s is a true family band with sisters Danielle Aubert (banjo, harp, pennywhistle) and Jacqueline Aubert (vocals), their partners Ian Van Ornum (mandolin, bouzouki) and Dan Sherrill (guitar), and good friends Sara Wilbur (violin, viola), Eric Jones (upright bass), and Alex Patterson (drums, percussion).

While some find it easy to characterize Patchy Sanders’ music, others hesitatingly distinguish the group’s style as noir-grass, neo-folk, neo-Americana, or simply alternative.

“A Patchy Sanders show is a wonderful experience filled with whimsical, heartfelt sing-alongs with a back bone of Irish barn dance with a hint of community cafeteria rebellion!” say The Shook Twins, a Portland-based twin-sister duo.

With three distinct songwriters, Patchy Sanders takes the listener to a new genre with each song. The band’s musical intention is to bridge the traditions of old into the current of today’s folk.

The group has been compared to many Americana bands such as The Head and the Heart, Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom. Patchy Sanders’ influences stem from the likes of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Lumineers, Elephant Revival, Mumford & Sons and more.