DELTA bluesman Kent DuChaine is set for a return visit to West Cumbria this month.

The veteran guitar maestro is back at the Florence Arts Centre, in Egremont, on Friday February 24, a year after his previous visit.

DuChaine travels extensively from his home in South Georgia and is touring the UK once more, calling in on one of his favourite crowds from last time around.

A stellar live performer, he is renowned for interweaving his own compositions with covers of classics, which have regularly included songs from Muddy Waters and BB King.

In fact, in 2015, he had just finished a six-week tour in the UK in 2015 and was about to fly home when he was asked to cancel his flight in order to play in a BB King tribute concert in central London, together with a number of luminaries including music legends Bill Wyman and Elliott Randall.

The travelling man has lived the blues lifestyle, gigging across the world, with his trusty sidekick Leadbessie, a beat up 1934 National steel guitar, which he found and refurbished.

After performing across America, the musician decided to spread the blues across the UK and Europe in the early 1990s, and to date has well over 100 overseas tours completed and eight solo CDs and one DVD under his belt.

He has opened up for and performed with many of the greatest blues performers of all time, including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bukka White, John Lee Hooker and Margie Evans.

He performs at the Florence Arts Centre on Friday February 24, with doors opening at 7.30pm, and tickets are available from the venue.