Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman/Brown Boots

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Dave and Anni joined forces in 1985, after spending many years around the folk club scene, in which time they featured on several albums made by other performers.
Although Dave and Anni perform substantially at home in the UK they also make at least one trip each year to the United States, where they have an established following and have also performed in Holland, Denmark and Finland.
Anni has developed a specialist repertoire of songs originating from her native North East, and Dave has been writing songs in traditional vein since 1982 many of these are widely sung and have become part of the general song repertoire of singers all over the world.

Brown Boots features Martin Clarke on fiddle and Will Allen on box. They are both highly accomplished and musicians individually and together, equally at home playing tunes with friends in the pub as performing on a festival main stage.
They came together for a gig at the Man of Kent in Rochester, having previously met at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Musically it immediately seemed to click, and an audience member commented on their choice of footwear, so the duo’s name was set.
Since then Will and Martin have made two duo albums together, performed at all the main UK folk festivals, played for countless ceilidhs and have collaborated to form a multi-award winning partnership playing for Tower Ravens rapper sword dancers.