Fresh off a west coast tour in July, New Orleans-based band, Tuba Skinny, made a weekend visit to Midcoast Maine, pleasing audiences from Montville to Damariscotta.

It is the third year that the Dixieland and traditional jazz band has visited Maine friends and fellow musicians. They played a benefit concert for the Water Street Learning Center in Montville on Friday, a wedding on Saturday, and a Sunday Party on Pier at Schooner Landing in Damariscotta before heading off to Detroit, Michigan.

Formed in 2009, the band played on the streets of New Orleans, graduated to small clubs, and then to the international scene touring to Europe, Australia and Mexico.

According to lead vocalist Erika Lewis, the band draws its influences from traditional spirituals, Depression-era blues and ragtime.

This January, the band was awarded Best Traditional Jazz Album at the Best of the Beat ceremonies at Generations Hall in New Orleans for their newest release “Owl Call Blues.”

According to Lewis, the band is putting finishing touches on its seventh album.

Album performers are: Todd Burdick (tuba), Jason Lawrence (guitar), Gregory Sherman (guitar, vocals) Barnabus Jones (trombone), Shaye Cohn (cornet), Robin Rapuzzi (washboard), Erika Lewis (vocals), John Doyle (clarinet).

CDs may be ordered online through the Louisiana Music Factory in New Orleans.