About Brown Boots

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.