8 p.m. Friday, Stargazers Theatre, 10 S. Parkside Drive; free; stargazers theatre.com or 476-2200

Fed by reeling banjo, fiery fiddle and smokin’ washboard, Whiskey Shivers’ high-octane hootenanny can be hard to contain once things get stompin’.

“We’re just going to have a good time and make sure everybody in the room has a good time,” says Bobby Fitzgerald, 27-year-old fiddle player and frontman for the Austin, Texas-based quintet. “We’re hoping something we’re doing makes you want to move and jump around a little bit. We get more excited as things escalate in the room and get hotter and hotter.”

For Fitzgerald, a Whiskey Shivers performance is more than five musicians, on stage, doing their thing.

“It’s everybody in the room. We try to bring everybody into the moment and get them to realize there’s no wall between us and the crowd. We’re all in this together, and we’re all here to have a good time,” he says.

Since emerging from a Craiglist ad – or, as legend holds, a “woodpile” – in 2009, the group has become known for its energetic live performances and a “trashgrass” sound that catalyzes old-world roots with the driving rhythms of punk.

“It’s bluegrass instrumentalization with an upright bass and fiddle, but a little bit faster, kind of dirty and raw with lots of shouting, hooting and hollering,” Fitzgerald says.

Popular players on the indie and Americana music scene in Austin and beyond, the band has warmed the stage for such acts as rockabilly legend Reverend Horton Heat and earned comparisions to Old Crow Medicine Show and Deer Tick; its 2014 self-titled release was no less than “a bluegrass record you can mosh to,” according to a review in “The Bluegrass Situation.”

“I like it when everybody’s dancing,” says Fitzgerald, who often performs barefoot.

Stephanie Earls, The Gazette, 636-0364, stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com