Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band

The Hatstand Medicine Band are a travelling troupe of musicological minstrels, peddling the good Doctors unique good-time tonic to all four corners of the land. Formed from a secret combination of early blues and jazz forms, a sprinkle of ragtime, a dash of hot swing, the essence of sweet spiritual, a pinch of the oldest of old-timey melodies and a teaspoon of Vaudevillian and Music Hall showoffery. All whisked together with the most esoteric of folk rhythms.
The result is a morally good music which is replete with tones of joy and fulfilment. This harmonic medicine is a natural aid to titillation and when taken as directed is a guaranteed restorer of vitality, vim and vigour.
Dr Butlers Hatstand Medicine Band will present to you their good time rags and reels, show stoppers and sight stealers; music for foot stomping and toe tickling that joins hearts with flesh whilst invigorating the thinking mind.
Dr Butlers Hatstand Medicine Band stand before you as harbingers of gentility, bearers of ingenuity, possessors of conviviality, enhancers and champions of upright and virtuous behaviour and caretakers of chivalric honour.



"I think the most I've danced in the past 10 years is to that band. Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band are fantastic. Washboard, harmonica, double bass, beauty, they're just fantastic. I think you'd call it ragtime, I'm not sure but it's awesome music to dance to." - GUY GARVEY, MERCURY MUSIC AWARD WINNER.