Music: Patchy Sanders bring avant-folk to Boundary Bay

Seeking to broaden modern folk’s traditionalist approach, the Patchy Sanders band out of Ashland, Ore., performs new material in a free gig from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 24, at Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro, 1107 Railroad Ave.

The band, which will be returning from Canada on their first international tour, bends toward avant-folk, with folk-orchestral arrangements that blend diverse genres and musical styles. They play a contemporary, independent, eclectic and eccentric folk music that critics have been trying, with effort, to categorize.

More on the band: patchysanders.com.

This story was originally published July 22, 2015 at 6:52 AM with the headline "Music: Patchy Sanders bring avant-folk to Boundary Bay."