They are completely at home with the music they love, and can switch comfortably from American to English songs and tunes… Both Dave and Pete have that rare gift of drawing you into a song.' They are all master musicians, but there is no sense of ego, no promotion of themselves as stars, although they certainly can dazzle. There is that same sweetness, ease, subtlety and good humour, every song and tune so well understood, so deftly played and so perfectly paced. This engaging trio inspires in me the same devotion that old Virginia musicians like Wade Ward and Uncle Charlie Higgins do. 'Whenever Rattle On The Stovepipe are booked to play at my local folk club I'm first in the queue to make sure I get my seat in the front row. The third member is the much younger multi-instrumentalist Dan Stewart… one of Europe's leading Old Timey banjo players.' Both have been members of leading bands and duos for decades now but never has either been heard to better effect than in this line-up. ' The trio brings together two of the British folk scene's most admired veterans, Dave Arthur and Pete Cooper. Dave Arthur (guitar, 5-string banjo, melodeon, percussion, vocals), Pete Cooper (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Dan Stewart (5-string banjo, guitar, fiddle, harmony vocals)
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