WHAT else could flame-haired chanteuse Gabby Young call her record company but Gift Of The Gab. She is best experienced live and uncaged with her Other Animals, as observed in their natural habitat of the mirror-glassed Spiegeltent in Harrogate’s Crescent Gardens in late May.

For now, you must re-create your own Spiegeltent dance floor to accompany her latest exuberant Weimar-echoing album, One Foot In Front Of The Other. Joined by wild-bearded guitarist Stephen, a laconic tuba player, percussionist, drummer and flighty fiddler on the hoof, she encourages you to throw rather more moves than one foot at a time in response to Sur La Lune (...A French Ditty), I’ve Improved and Smile.

If you have lost faith in Paloma Faith, take the classically trained Young to your heart as she brings operatic drama to folk music, then beefs it up with Eastern European brass and all that jazz. She can be vulnerable too, especially on Fear Of Flying.