by Lorraine Gibson.

There’s nothing like a rousing, old-time country music hoedown to cheer up a winter’s night, and there’s certainly nothing quite like a Buffalo Gals’ version of one.
Specialists in the original grass-roots, hard-life sounds of America, the six-piece’s visual and melodic antics, combined with the joshing, joyful rapport they build with audiences, have made them one of the UK’s most sought-after acts on the US roots-inspired circuit.
Now they’re heading to Dorset to perform three concerts for rural communities, through the Artsreach arts charity.

Led by champion USA fiddler and funny-gal Kate Lissauer, pictured right, they deliver string-band tradition ballads, rags and work songs and the spiritual numbers of Appalachia, bluegrass and early country.

Driven by fiddle, banjo, double-bass, ukulele, guitar, and soaring harmonies, the Buffalo Gals’ style is punctuated by stunning, syncopated traditional Appalachian ‘step-dancer’, aka stomping and ‘body-percussion’ – to toe-tapping tunes in what’s billed as ‘an irresistible and uplifting show’.
Stalbridge (01963 362978), Thursday, December 1.
Corfe Castle (07590 352219), Friday, December 2.
Powerstock (01308 485730), Saturday, December 3.
Further information and tickets from artsreach.co.uk.