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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. |