Captain Dirt & The Skirt

Captain Dirt & The Skirt is the new musical collaboration between singer-songwriter-guitarist Kristin Sweetland and bassist-violinist Lyndell Montgomery. The two have recorded their debut album "The Adventures of Captain Dirt & The Skirt" with multiple Juno award-winner David Travers-Smith (Wailin' Jennys, Oh Susanna.)

Coming from their own independently successful music careers, Sweetland and Montgomery are seasoned road-warriors, having toured extensively nationally and internationally for more than a decade. Now they have joined forces with all their experience to create unique and original music together.

The new album is an entirely instrumental project, showcasing their skills as composers, arrangers, and instrumentalists. However, they still love to sing in their live shows, which combine masterful musicianship with a visually compelling and theatrical presentation. The songs are exceptionally diverse in style, drawing from genres such as traditional folk, Eastern-European folk, bluegrass, hymnal, Parisian café music, gypsy-jazz, and pop-rock. All this, united through the unparalleled prowess of their signature style, which combines the precision of classical music with the edge of rock 'n' roll, and the romantic flair of French cabaret.