YELLOWKNIFE - It's been just seven months, but Yellowknifers are ready for a second helping of the blues.

Calgary's Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir is making its return to Yellowknife, not long after stealing the show at last summer's Folk on the Rocks festival.

Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir member Judd Palmer is seen here during one of the group's performances at Folk on the Rocks last summer. The band returns to Yellowknife tomorrow night at the Top Knight for the Folk on the Rocks spring dance. - NNSL file photo

"We're looking forward to coming back," said bassist Vladimir Sobolewski.

"Is it cold?" he asked tentatively.

The quartet will bring its unique mix of Delta blues, Appalachian mountain music and punk rock aggression to the Top Knight Saturday at 8 p.m. for the Folk on the Rocks spring dance, sponsored by Canadian North.

But first, the group will stop by Sir John Franklin high school to talk to the next generation of musicians. Sobelewski said the band will talk to students, give a small performance, and, he's not sure what else.

"I have no idea," he said with a laugh.

After some thought, he said the band would, at the very least, have a lot of experience and know-how to pass on about the music industry.

"I've been playing music for 20 years," he said.

"There's some ins and outs, and some dos or don'ts we can share."

Sobelewski said the Choir was formed out of a bluegrass band featuring him and Agnostics member Judd Palmer.

"Both Judd and myself wanted to go a little darker and push the boundaries a little more," he said, which led them to team up with Calgary rock veterans Bob Keelaghan and Jay Woolley.

The result is a soulful, cacophonous mix of banjos, guitars, stand-up bass, homemade percussion, and a fair share of tuneful "hollering."

"It's somewhere between blues and punk, with a heavy, stomping-on-the-floor, hitting-people-with-a-bottle-of-whisky feel," Palmer said in a previous interview.

Folk on the Rocks' spring dances tend to be strong draws, as Toronto's Random Order sold out the Elks Hall last year.

Sobelewski is preparing for more of the same this time around.

"We're hoping there's going to be a good crowd from the festival," he said.

The band "lucked out" during Folk on the Rocks, he said, taking over K'Naan's headlining slot and performing for a packed evening crowd on the main stage.

"It'll be more of the same: high energy and lots of fun," he said of Saturday's show. "Come on out and have a good time with the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir."