Roseville’s Humble Wolf thrives on momentum: live music, bustling creativity and constant pairings of sound and ideas for its sonic brew are the course du jour for its members. Humble Wolf recently played at Sacramento’s ‘First Festival,’ a grass-roots local music celebration held Father’s Day weekend that featured 40 local music acts spanning genres from acoustic indie-folk to grimacing death metal and everything in between.

While the festival became something of a regional controversy, Humble Wolf is keeping on its upward trajectory and pushing for more musical output; the band has already played Sacramento’s widely popular Concerts in the Park series, and has an upcoming E.P. slated for release at a Roseville show July 29. It’s also hoping for a full-length album launch the next year.

Despite First Festival’s lackluster turn out, Humble Wolf brought the same presence and power to the stage that they put into all the work they do.

“Humble Wolf will play the same regardless of if it’s five people or five thousand,” said lead vocalist Jayson Angove. “I think it’s an energy thing. It’s nice to play to larger groups who are excited, but it’s also good to play to smaller groups who are excited.”

At the Father’s Day show the band was included alongside a plethora of Sacramento area favorites including The Nickel Slots, Drop Dead Red, Whiskey & Stitches, and Be Brave Bold Robot. Three stages, art displays, local vendors, food trucks and craft beer created an inviting atmosphere for a weekend music festival that was challenged by poor timing and miscalculation. Ignoring the drawbacks, Humble Wolf made the most of the day; howling notes off of crunchy rock n roll guitars over South Side Park, and embodying to many who were there what live music is all about.

“More than anything I love a good live band,” Angove said. “There are a lot of bands who record great music — there’s lots of tricks you can do in the studio to make you sound better than you are. There’s no right or wrong way to do it. I think I just really enjoy the challenge of a live show because it’s multiple people working together to achieve one goal, which is to perform a song and have fun with it.”

Next on the horizon for Humble Wolf is its E.P. release show, July 29 at the Opera House in Roseville. The E.P. will have five songs, and is tentatively titled “Fiction for Liars,” according to bassist David Albertson.

“We’ve been going back and forth on the title,” Albertson observed. “We’ve been recording it locally at Fat Cat Studios. (The release show) will be the last Friday in July. We’re playing the whole night, 9:30 to 12:30 p.m. We’re going to play new music, we’re going to play some covers and we’re going to raffle a guitar. That’s our big end of summer show.”

More information on Humble Wolf and access to their music can be found at www.humblewolf.com.