CANADIAN old-time Americana band Sheesham & Lotus & Son will make their first visit to Britain in August and September on the back of their Spiegeltent residency at next month's Tonder Festival in Denmark. Selby Town Hall awaits on September 6.

"This is lovely sepia-tinted music and I absolutely love it," said BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris on hearing the Ontario trio's album 1929.

The follow-up, High Stepping Music, will be out in time for the tour, featuring such highlights as Sales Tax Toddle, Up The Wooden Hill, the intriguing Salt & Pepper Drag and self-penned jug band number Swimming Blues.

Meanwhile, traditionalists will be drawn to their take on the crusty old fiddle tune The Blackberry Blossom and their version of Dallas Rag.

"Sheesham & Lotus & Son are a vaudevillian visual delight with beautiful instruments and period costumes," says Selby Town Council arts officer Chris Jones.

"The band transport audiences to rumbustious times when self-proclaimed quacks flogged snake oil as a miracle cure, taking tunes from the old fiddlers on the Lomax collections and drawing inspiration from Memphis jug bands.

"Singing and playing horns and objects of antiquity, their combinations of bass harmonica, jaw-harp and sousaphone, in tandem with cello-banjo and fiddles, are performed with relish and skill, producing an astounding mix of ragtime, fiddle tunes, old-time sibling harmony and good time blues."

Doors open at 7.30pm for the 8pm start. Tickets cost £11 in advance on 01757 708449 or at selbytownhall.co.uk or £13 on the door.