Old time vegetable string band King Courgette was raised in the Clifton Delta - a small, swampy patch of the flatlands of North Yorkshire.
The band comprises Poppa ‘King’ Courgette on guitar, String Bean Slim on banjo, Hot Chilli McGrath on mandolin, tenor banjo and harp, Bad Apple Two T’s on bass and guitar and Wild Zucchini Bill on washboard, bones and anything else he can bang together to make a noise.

The band’s sound can best be described as a mix of hokum hillbilly vaudeville ragtime blues - and in the best bluegrass tradition, all the members are related, though as banjo picker String Bean Slim points out: ‘the delta has a fairly shallow gene pool’.