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Trudgeon’s Trad Jazz Troubadours is a multigenerational assemblage of musicians from around the region. They’ve been together just a few years, but wield decades of experience between them: The eponymous [Joseph] Trudgeon plays bass in the Chris Barber Big Band. (Barber was one third of titanic trad triumvirate Barber, Ball, and Bilk—check them out in their heyday, here.) Drummer Paul Archibald is a lecturer in music at Cardiff University, a regular on the UK festival circuit and a member of Rob Heron’s Teapad Orchestra—undoubtedly the best and most successful Americana band out of North East England.