THE Selecter’s Pauline Black and Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson will be the special guests at Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra’s November 14 concert at York Barbican and on the following night at Harrogate International Centre.

At 7.30pm each night, boogie-woogie pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and host Jools Holland will be performing songs spanning his solo career, including from last November’s duets album, Sirens Of Song.

Black and Hendrickson, from Coventry ska band The Selecter, will be joining Holland for 17 of his 34 autumn and winter dates, while Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall will be the guest on 19 dates, including a Yorkshire gig at Sheffield City Hall on November 22. A then-unknown Tunstall famously made her television debut on BBC2’s Later...With Jools Holland in 2004, when she brought the house down with Black Horse & The Cherry Tree; a decade later, she sang Night And Day on Sirens Of Song.

As ever, Holland’s line-up will include singers Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall and his daughter Mabel Ray – plus the tireless drums of his fellow Squeeze member Gilson Lavis.

Tickets for Jools’s York show can be booked on 0844 854 2757 or at yorkbarbican.co.uk; Harrogate, 01423 502116 or harrogatetheatre.co.uk