The Hatstand Medicine Band are a travelling troupe of musicological minstrels, peddling the good Doctors homemade 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 folk tradition, the essence of old-time religion, a pinch of music hall wit and a teaspoon of vaudevillian showoffery.

 

The result is a morally good music which is replete with harmonic tones of joy and fulfilment; a natural aid to titillation and 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 mind benders. Music for foot stomping and toe tickling that joins hearts with flesh and invigorates the thinking mind. ​​

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The 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.