PUBLISHED: Mar 07, 2010
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Ben Paley and Tab Hunter at the Constitutional Club, Lewes, March 7th 2010
Playing energetic and beautiful Swedish, Irish, Klezmer and American traditional music (and more), Ben Paley (fiddle) and Tab Hunter (guitar) have worked with Damon Albarn, Channel 4 and the Levellers, among others.
BEN (described by Folk Roots as "just about the best folk-fiddler of his generation") has been playing the fiddle music of the USA, Sweden and Ireland since he was six years old. He has recorded with Bing Lyle, Mandragora, The Saw Doctors, Murray Lachlan Young and The New Deal String Band.
TAB has gained his breadth of experience as a guitarist (flat-picker and accompanist), songwriter and recorded jews' harpist as a soloist and in duos and bands in the tradition, from Irish music to death-blue-metal-grass, through klezmer, jazz, Old Time and Scandinavian folk music.