Jefferson Hamer is a guitarist, songwriter, traditional musician, and producer. He is best known for his work with The Murphy Beds, a harmony-rich folk duo with Irish musician and songwriter Eamon O’Leary, as well as other collaborations with Anais Mitchell, Sarah Jarosz, Session Americana, and other artists. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Steve Roy is a multi-instrumentalist from Eliot, ME who plays and teaches upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, and ukulele.  He is most often found performing with Old Hat Stringband, though he has previously toured and performed with a variety of other acts, including Laurie Lewis, Molly Tuttle, Joe K. Walsh, David Surette and many others.

For the past few years, Steve and Jefferson have been performing together as members of Dead To The Core: an acoustic celebration of the Grateful Dead.  They bring their shared knowledge of the Dead’s repertoire as well as their backgrounds in traditional acoustic music to their duo performances.