The Crabshell Inn, Kingsbridge, continues to attract some of the very finest American traditional musicians.

They love being close up and cosy with the audience without the distancing banks of amplifiers more usually required on their busy tours.

Jeff Warner delighted a Crabshell audience here last May. He's the son of the eminent collectors of early American music, Anne and Frank Warner, and continues to expand and build on their work.

He has a most engaging and warm stage presence and is a fine interpreter of the old songs and an excellent player of the banjo, guitar and concertina.

Jeff tours extensively around the world and has recorded many albums. He especially likes to work with children and his CD, Two Little Boys: More Old Time Songs for Kids received a Parents' Choice Award.

He will bring you songs drawn from the Outer Banks fishing villages of North Carolina, the lumber camps of the Adirondack Mountains, the whaling ports of New England and from the coal mines and smallholdings of the Appalachians.

And he's likely to sing Crossing the Bar from the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, believed to have been about the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary at Salcombe.

Jeff will be appearing at the Crabshell on Sunday 1 June at 8pm. Tickets are £8 on the door or £6 in advance from the bar or booked from Neil White on 01548 856 601.

For more information about Jeff, visit www.jeffwarner.com.