BRATTLEBORO– Twilight Music presents an evening of lively, quirky, swingy, bluesy, old-time American music with Housetop, southern Vermont’s four-part harmony singin’ and swingin’ string band, at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery on Friday, August 27, at 8 pm.

If Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters had pulled out strings and horns and honked their own big band breaks like Benny Goodman and Stuff Smith sitting in with a hot backwoods jug band, they would have sounded something like Housetop. Peter Siegel, well known as a songwriter and space-age vaudevillian, contributes his chunking, bluesy archtop guitar rhythm and his enviable high tenor voice. Erica Morse drives the low end on the upright bass, while crooning in an inimitable sisterly blend with Naomi Morse, also renowned for her strong, fiery fiddling. Anna Patton rounds out the quartet, harmonizing with her smooth alto and deftly swinging on the clarinet.

Housetop has developed an original recipe: a bit of blues, a pinch of western swing, a large dose of humor, tunes penned by anybody from Fats Waller to the Roches and their own originals. They have been dishing it out in concerts and festivals all over the Northeast, including Jay Ungar’s Dancing on the Air, the New London Traditions Festival, and the Saratoga Dance Flurry. Keep an eye out for their debut album in the next year, and in the meantime, come catch them live at H-DT&G.

Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery is located at 139 Main Street in downtown Brattleboro. Tickets for this show are $15 for adults, $13 for students and seniors. For ticket reservations and information call (802) 254-9276. For more information visit www.myspace.com/onthehousetop and www.twilightmusic.org.