Biography

 
If there was a natural soundtrack to the comfortably worn hills of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Dave Eakin would be singing and Steve Hoke would be picking lead. The duo’s blend of original, traditional and contemporary string music pays tribute to some of the great songwriters and pickers of the rural music tradition while remaining wholly unique.
  

Dave was born in raised in Rockbridge County, long-known for having far more than its fair share of world class musicians. Dave is no exception. He grew up singing and playing around Virginia in a variety of country, rock, and acoustic groups. His tremendous voice is an assortment of contradictions: worn but smooth, expressive but understated, lonesome but hopeful. When Dave sings and plays, it reflects the mastery that comes only from having played thousands of shows.
 
 
 
 
Likewise, the soulful and virtuosic playing of multi-instrumentalist Steve Hoke comes from a lifetime of playing. As a deeply respected and oft-sought out music teacher, Steve is responsible for a generation of musicians in Rockbridge County and beyond. For years, he played nearly any instrument with strings in the wildly popular country-rock band Ironhorse. In the late 1990s he helped formed the experimental bluegrass band Walker’s Run. His playing, brilliantly skillful while always tasteful, is the perfect accompaniment to the simultaneous depth and simplicity of Dave’s original songs.