NIGEL Burnham has been presenting great names in Cajun music at The Band Room in Low Mill, beyond Farndale, near Kirkbymoorside, for more than 20 years now.

"Christine Balfa – fiddle player Dewey Balfa's daughter – launched our Cajun connection when playing our debut show in August 1995 as a member of Balfa Toujours, along with demon fiddler Kevin Wimmer and banjo virtuoso Dirk Powell, who went on to work with Jack White, Joan Baez, T-Bone Burnett & Loretta Lynn," recalls Nigel, ahead of Monday's gig by Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & The Cajun Country Revival.

"Since then we’ve had various incarnations of The Savoy Family Band, featuring Cajun legends Marc and Ann Savoy with their sons Joel and Wilson; The Pine Leaf Boys, featuring Wilson Savoy and accordion star Cedric Watson; Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys and The Magnolia Sisters, Ann Savoy’s other great band."

Looking forward to Monday's 7.30pm concert, Nigel says: "Cajun superstars Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége & The Cajun Country Revival are right up there. Spanning generations from across the US nation, The Cajun Country Revival is a bona-fide supergroup of American roots musicians. Comprising Cajun musicians Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy and two members of Portland Oregon’s Foghorn Stringband, they have blown away audiences around the world, celebrating, rather than merely ‘performing’, the music that brought them together: Cajun and early country."

Already this season, The Band Room has played host to the remarkable guitar playing of Illinois folk singer-songwriter Ryley Walker in a sublime solo performance, in the absence of the indisposed Danny Thompson, on February 27, when Meg Baird provided quietly magical support.

Six nights later, Louisville folk singer-songwriter Joan Shelley enraptured an equally full Band Room with her sad songs of poetry, history, mystery and nature in the company of guitarist Nathan Salsburg.

Still to come in 2016 are The Weather Station, alias Canadian Tamara Lindeman, with her otherworldly songs and slow-burning vignettes on August 27, and American guitar slinger Johnny Dowd with Park Doing on October 22. For tickets, phone 01751 432900 or book online at thebandroom.co.uk