Following a sell-out concert at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts last year, Southern Tenant Folk Union return to the venue on Wednesday, January 28.

One of the most highly acclaimed folk/bluegrass bands in the UK, they have just released their sixth album The Chuck Norris Project.

The band was formed by five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey, who was born in Belfast.

They take their name from the multi-racial union of share-croppers and non-landowning tenant farmers that was founded in Arksansas in the 1930s.

Inventive, artistically successful and with an exciting live act worked around a single microphone, they sell out arts centres across Europe.

The Edinburgh-based roots collective’s new album is their sixth to be released since they formed in 2006 and contains a set of songs that build on some of the political lyrics and soundtrack-style atmosphere from the acclaimed fifth album Hello Cold Goodbye Sun as well as showcasing the growing songwriting, instrumental and vocal talent from within the band.

Artistically successful, their albums have been praised in The Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times, Mojo, Uncut and Irish Times.

Often heard on national radio shows across UK and Eire they have also performed live in session on The Andrew Marr Show, Radio 2, Radio 4’s Loose Ends, BBC Ulster and RTE One national TV (The Late Late Show) and on radio.

Their live show is exciting, engaging and in their hands bluegrass can effortlessly be blended with other genres – folk, roots, Americana – to make a potent, timeless sound.

The show starts at 8pm on Wednesday, January 28.