When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Bridge
Cost: $5 cover at the door

The Columbia music scene, though small, is still notable. With so much activity in this town centered around MU, it is easy to overlook a group of guys trying to make a living playing music.

Triple P is a hard rock trio with gigs around the Columbia area and elsewhere. Guitarist Luke Offield, bassist Ben Drummand and drummer Mike Bonnot have been playing together for about three years. They share a bill with two other bands, Lunar Mansion and Just Free, for a concert at The Bridge on Friday night.

“I like to think that anyone who enjoys rock music will like our band,” Offield says. “We incorporate some blues/jazz passages in our music and draw from several different genres. It has more of an involved feel than typical rock music so that makes a person feel more like a participant.”

Kara Miller, media-relations director for The Bridge, said the band puts on an impressive show.

“We present all different types of music here at The Bridge, but we only book acts that we think are really good,” Miller says.

At 34, Offield says he still has aspirations to tour and move his band onto the national stage.

“At this point, we all have day jobs: I work at a music store, Ben is a chef at a restaurant and Mike works at the University Hospital,” he says. “I wish I could play to get paid enough to call this my profession, but the reality is you don’t make enough money to pay your bills. Though there are drawbacks to touring, being up on a stage every night of the week is something you get addicted to. I don’t have any delusions, but I hope in the future that one day I might be in the right opportunity to make it happen.”