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Steamboat Springs — Whitewater Ramble will tour in style this year. The self-described "high-octane, Rocky Mountain dancegrass" band is traveling in a new RV its members bought last month to accommodate their growing concert schedule.

"They are bigger and further away," said Joe Turman, Whitewater Ramble's fiddle player. "We were very antsy about it and have to be really careful. The first week of touring around, we put a couple dents in it."

The new RV will be featured alongside the band's music in a concert DVD to be released in February.

"It's a nice live concert DVD with all sorts of stuff from a series of four shows we played in October," said Brian Coddington, acoustic guitarist and vocalist.

Like all of the band's CDs, the DVD is of a live performance.

"A lot of bands have been our predecessors that laid the foundation. The first seven albums Yonder Mountain String Band recorded were all live," Coddington said. "We are planning to go into the studio eventually, but the studio takes a lot of time and effort, which gets us off the road."

It's at their concerts that Whitewater Ramble creates most of its original songs.

"When something happens during a show, it makes the best song," Turman said. "If you look at all the people who have written songs over all of time, the songs reflect what happens in people's lives, and people seem to enjoy hearing what happens to the band on the road."

After its Steamboat show, the band embarks on a 10-day tour at the end of the month. And the new RV likely will be home for the band well into the future.

"Everything works out when you do what you love to do," Turman said. "The way I gauge if things are going well is if we have a week or two-week break, and we get to the point where we want to be on the road again. I don't know anyone in the band that wants to stay home all the time."