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3rd Appleby Beer & Blues Festival 2008
Appleby in Westmorland

Sunday
21st September 2008



   Hokum Hotshots
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Hokum is ‘blues with a smile on its face’ and the Hotshots do it very well indeed . . .
     Jim Mason and Pete Murray are Hokum Hotshots.
I   Instruments played include vocals (2), Steel National and Dobro Horizontal Guitars, Mandolin,
     Tiple (a 10 stringed South American instrument), ukulele, and acoustic 6 stringed guitars.
     A total of over 50 available strings, of which most are hit in the right order.

 

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The Last Gasp Spasm Band is said to be the only authentic Jug Band in the UK. The band features some of finest Blues and Roots performers around, consisting of Jim Murray and Peter Mason, better known as The Hokum Hotshots, alongside Lee Bates and Billy Newton; another excellent Blues duo from the Northeast. Joining them on Jug is the wonderful Michael ‘Fruit-Lips’ Watson.

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