The Yorkshire Teabags are a Skiffle

Skiffle

Skiffle is a type of popular music with jazz, blues, folk, roots and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments. Originating as a term in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, it became popular again in the UK in the 1950s, where it was mainly...

 group, who play a broad range of popular songs in the style of the skiffle groups of the 1950s and are based in the Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

 area.

They are well-supported by Taylors of Harrogate, the makers of Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Tea is a black tea blend produced by Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate, one of the few remaining family tea and coffee merchants in the United Kingdom.The company was founded in 1886 by Yorkshire tea merchant Charles Taylor...

, and distribute promotional packs of tea at every performance, as well as wearing orange Yorkshire Tea caps during sets.

The band

The band comprises Dave Aspinwall, Christine Bellamy, Ken Lister, Keith Martin, and Adam Pemberton.

Venues

Venues played include two live performances on BBC Radio Sheffield, the Maltby Festival, Sheffield's "Festival of Light", and "Love 2B in Sheffield", as well as the Winter Gardens, in Sheffield city centre, Baldwin's Omega, and a selection of local pubs and private parties.