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Martin Appleby has played bass guitar for English Country Dance for over twenty years. He fell in love with the music as a teenager in York, and decided to pursue it full-time when he heard the classic John Tams/ Phil Pickett line-up of the Albion Dance Band in the late seventies. He formed Stömp with Sheena Masson in 1994 to push country-dance in new directions, taking on Scandinavian influences and jazz, as well as traditional English Folk forms.
He now divides his time between Stömp and BBC Radio 3, where he works as a Studio Manager on music as diverse as Andy Kershaw and Late Junction sessions, through to the Proms. His twin passions remain bass guitar and English traditional dance music.
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