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"One of the world’s great performers"  5/5 stars from Maverick Magazine (July 10)

 

"Never have I seen or heard an artist quite like Stompin’ Dave" 5/5 stars from Maverick Magazine (Oct 09)

 

"The pick of Dorset's home grown talent, Stompin' Dave undoubtedly is." The Dorset Echo (Aug 09)

 

"His style is mesmerising and infectious and he ought to be booked at every festival going"

Blues Matters! (Jul 09)

 

"Dave's spectacular talent leaves us less talented people open mouthed in amazement."

Blues In The South (Apr 08)

 

"A true treasure from the South Coast" Banbury Blues Festival  (Mar 08)

 

"Very fine indeed" Blues In Britain (Jul 08)

 

"Generates enough energy to illuminate Blackpool" Wessex Folk Festival (Jun 07)

 

"Stage show bordering on mania and his stamina bordering on the impossible"

Scrumpy & Western (Nov 07)

 

"A bluesy, rootsy, folky, dynamo" Suited & Booted (Dec 06)

Stompin' Dave Allen performs American roots music on guitar, five-string banjo, fiddle, piano, 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.    

In 2009 Stompin'  Dave performed nearly two hundred performances in the UK including Southsea Folk & Roots Festival, The Great Dorset Steam Fair,  Wessex Folk Festival,  Foxstock Festival, Exmouth Festival,  Ashburton Blues Festival, and the Boogaloo Blues Festival on the Isle Of Wight.  Dave performed in Ireland and also entered the American national flat picking guitar contest and banjo competition at Walnut Valley Festival, Kansas, U.S.A.
 
Since beginning to perform as Stompin' Dave Allen in April 2006 Dave has recorded four solo CDs One Foot Across The Pond, Fake American Accent, Westwood Bound, and Like A Lotus Flower Growing In Muddy Waters & produced a DVD Stompin' Dave on DVD. In 2006 Dave travelled across the USA with impromptu performances in Chicago, New York, Charlottesville and New Orleans. 
 
Stompin' Dave has performed in Dorset, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Surrey, Avon, Suffolk, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloustershire, London, Alderney, The Scilly Isles, The Isle of Wight & Ireland. 
 
Dave has been featured in Maverick Magazine,  Blues In Britain, Blues Matters, Blues In The South, in Scrumpy, The Dorset Echo and Western & Suited & Booted, on BBC Somerset Forest FM, BBC Suffolk FM, BITS Radio, and been named Artist of the Month on Lemonrock.com. 
 
Mainly playing solo Dave also started a band  in November 2007 Stompin' Dave's Electric Band. The band has now released five albums, Original Blues, More Original Blues, Piano Covered, Live At The RPA & Mystery Train. The bands music has been reviewed in Blues In Britan, Blues Matters, Blues In The South, featured on BBC Somerset, Wessex FM & BITS Radio. Named track of the week on Lemonrock.com 
 
In 2010 Dave also released an acoustic Country Blues album with award winning bluesman Dave Saunders who also performs in Stompin' Dave's Electric Band.      
 
Previously known as Dr. Stomp(1999-2006), Dave performed as Dr. Stomp 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.
 
Over 10 years working exclusively as a performer Dave has stomped at pubs, music festivals, beer festivals, music clubs, folk clubs, parties, restaurants, weddings, arts centres, hotels, fun runs, band stands, gardens, public houses, markets, meetings, churches, clubs, barn dances, village halls, street parties, processions, fetes, bikers rally's, palaces, goose fares, nettle eating competitions, wakes, marathons, and as a street entertainer.
 

Stompin Dave Extended Biog