ALLEN is excited to continue the relationship that started with Ray and Randy Cramer in the band "Shucks", the band that garnered much country music attention in the late 80's and early 90's.  

Allen plays both bass guitar and string bass, and provides back-up vocals.  He started playing bass in high school and went on to major in music at Lebanon Valley College.  After college he started a widely varied music career, in which he has toured extensively in much of the U.S., Europe and Puerto Rico.  His start in country music was with a Central PA band, "Cole Train."  He was a member of the "Younger Brothers Band" who had two hits on the national charts.  After the Younger Brothers broke up, he helped form "Shucks" with the Cramer Brothers and Terry Gehman (of Anjoli Productions.)  Shucks was a tremendously successful band, scoring a #1 song on the national independent record charts with the song, "I Love to Dance", winning the state championship of the Wrangler Showdown in 1989 and attracting scores of fans.  

You might have caught Allen lately playing in groups as "Blitz Dynette", "Maxwell", "Curbstone and the Rock Hard Horns" and "Chris Woodward and Shindiggin", or in various area theatres such as Mt. Gretna, Allenberry, and the Harrisburg Community Theatre at Whitaker Center in Harrisburg.  Allen has played for Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Robert Goulet, the Platters, and the Smothers Brothers.  He also appeared with Sally Struthers in the show "Always, Patsy Cline."  He is currently a middle school band director at Carlisle School District and leads the jazz, concert, and marching bands. 

Allen resides in central PA with his wife, Cindy, a middle school teacher and photographer; daughter, Abbi, who is a sophomore commercial music major at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee; and Autumn who is graduating high school and will be attending Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida in the fall.