THE Band Room promoter Nigel Burnham reckons "we're at a new crossroads in folk and Canada's Tamara Lindeman, aka The Weather Station, is blazing a trail".

So much so, he has booked Tamara for, not tomorrow, but Saturday at 7.30pm at The Band Room in the North York Moors beyond Kirkbymoorside. "Her mesmerising otherworldly songs, slow-burning vignettes and intense intimate portraits recall the finest work of compatriots Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen," says Nigel.

"And we can’t think of a better way to kick-start the August Bank Holiday weekend when anyone who sticks around until Monday will also be able to take in the 109th Farndale Show, celebrated for the peculiar orange Texel sheep, ferocious Terriers, cattle, hens, pigeons, ducks, ferrets, rabbits, hounds, hunters, ponies and pygmy goats appreciated in previous years by rock'n'roll luminaries Willy Mason, Megafaun, et al."

Tamara's third and finest album yet, Loyalty, was recorded at La Frette Studios in France in the winter of 2014 with Bahamas' Afie Jurvanen and Feist's Robbie Lackritz for release last year. Earlier she made The Line in 2009, All Of It Was Mine in 2011 and the EP What Am In Going To Do With Everything I Know in 2014.

The Canadian singer and actress featured in a July 28 article in the Guardian on the new wave of Cosmic Americana musicians, much to Nigel's delight. "By my reckoning, we've already had six of the acts featured in the piece at The Band Room: Hiss Golden Messenger, William Tyler, Joan Shelley, Phil Cook, Megafaun and Ryley Walker, who played here twice before he played York this summer. Now there's a seventh, Tamara Lindeman."

Tickets are still available for Tamara's Band Room debut at thebandroom.co.uk/gigs or on 01751 432900. "As always with our Band Room gigs, I've asked her if she'll play a Bob Dylan song...and she's learning one."