Alligator Gumbo have been playing together since the summer of 2011 and a firm favourite of Live at Grewelthorpe! Based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, they have played extensively around the country to rave reviews - from rowdy bars to some of the UK's most prestigious jazz festivals. Playing jazz from the hey-day of the New Orleans swing era, in particular the "roaring 20s", where Jazz music featured instruments such as the violin, clarinet and accordion particularly amongst the Creole musicians based in the city who helped to define this style. Before the time of the jazz big bands, swing music was raw and largely improvised with melodies and solos happening simultaneously which has now become defined as the 'New Orleans' sound. Alligator Gumbo strive to keep this style alive in their renditions of popular songs from this unique time and place. http://www.alligator-gumbo.co.uk/

Gary Stewart is a Scottish singer/songwriter who has carved out a strong fan-base in his adopted home of Yorkshire with songs about love & resilience. When not playing his own music, the left-hander plays drums for fellow Bandcampers Hope & Social, bass for Leeds-based Fleetwood Mac tribute Weetwood Mac and performs regularly up & down the U.K, performing Paul Simon's classic 1986 album Graceland with his seven-piece band. Influenced by the major singer/songwriters of the sixties and seventies, Gary writes, records and performs music in the Folk/Pop vein. The Scottish songsmith has released four albums to date his latest, Lost, Now Found, self-recorded, produced and released in June 2021. His debut record, Boy Cries Wolf, garnered much praise from Janice Long and was played on Radio Two courtesy of Steve Lamacq. Gary is also no stranger to the Festival circuit, having played Kendal Calling, Green Man and Shrewsbury Folk Festival to name but a few. For his visit to Grewelthorpe, Gary will be performing a set of his owns songs plus a set of Paul Simon songs. A " not to be missed" evening garystewartmusic.co.uk