Stompin' Dave Allen performs American roots music on guitar, five-string banjo, fiddle, harmonica, vocals & tap dancing. Dave specializes in American roots music: old-time, bluegrass, blues, country blues, folk, vintage country & hillbilly. Traditional songs & tunes, originals & covers. 2008 promises to be a bumper year for Stompin Dave, he has performances scheduled at Banbury Blues Festival, Wessex Folk Festival, Foxstock Festival, The Dorset Steam Fair, Suffolk Bluegrass Day, Exmouth Festival, North Devon Fringe Festival, The Beaminster Festival, & Southsea Folk & Roots Festival.
Since beginning to perform as Stompin' Dave Allen in April 2006 Dave has recorded three CDs - Fake American Accent, Westwood Bound, and Like A Lotus Flower Growing In Muddy Waters, travelled across the USA, with impromptu performances in Chicago, New York, Charlottesville and New Orleans. Dave has also performed in pubs, bars, village halls, and art centres in Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Hampshire, Gloustershire & Surrey.
Dave also started a new project in November 2007 Stompin' Dave's Electric Band, recording the album Original Blues. Previously known as Dr. Stomp (1999-2006), Dave has performed at Glastonbury Festival 2004/5, The Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2005, Frome Festival 2005/6, Brampton Live Festival 2004, Bournemouth Music Live 2004/5 and won Falmouth’s International Street Entertainer's Competition in 2004, plus many hundred of other venues mainly in the South but across the U.K. and in Ireland, France, & Portugal. Dave produced eight Dr. Stomp albums & a video. Dave has stomped at pubs, music festivals, beer festivals, music clubs, folk clubs, parties, restaurants, weddings, arts centres, fun runs, band stands, gardens, public houses, markets, meetings, churches, clubs, barn dances, village halls, processions, fetes, nettle eating competitions, wakes, marathons, art class, and as a street entertainer.