An English Cowgirl in BrooklynJan Bell performs solo and with her Brooklyn based band the Cheap Dates. She also tours with Old timey country Trio The Maybelles.\n\nJan Bell and the cheap dates set out playing in her neighborhood - d.u.m.b.o. by the Brooklyn Bridge as part of her Urban Cowgirl Cabaret Tribute Series, turning oldmaritime loading docks into Live Music Stages.\n\nPedal Steel, violin, banjo and upright bass would squeeze onto a pick up truck stage outside an iron workers bar that stood there for a century. Singing original country blues, and songs by their honky tonk heroes - three part harmony sailed up above the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, the roof tops, and nyc water towers.\n\nJan grew up in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, England, and spent several years on the back roads of north america, learning songs from the rural south and mountain towns. When she first heard the songs of women such as Mother Maybelle, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard - she felt right at home.\n\nWherever she goes, people always ask how come an english girl is singing so many american folk songs? Jan reckons the root of many of the songs she loves, are back in the coal mining country side where she was born and raised. Alternative, Country, Folk, Rock