Claude Arthur

Washington DC based upright and electric bassist Claude Arthur has performed with Keller Williams, Rounder Records artist Slaid Cleaves, former Commander Cody guitarist Bill Kirchen and with Dave Chappell and Friends, The DC Roots Quartet/Swinging Daves, Pete Fields and the World Jam Club, saxaphonist Scott Ramminger and former Rotoglow and Modern Yesterday singer Andrew Hellier.

A professional musican for over 25 years and a graduate of the Music Department of The University of Mary Washington, Claude Arthur has played electric or acoustic bass, guitar or mandolin, flute, drums or banjo everywhere from symphony orchestras to honky tonks, street corners to coliseums, from Europe to San Francisco, the Kennedy Center and Philadelphia Folk Festival. He has also performed with, or on the same bill with Chris Isaak, They Might Be Giants, Cracker, The Stray Cats, NRBQ, Tom Waits, Steve Wariner, Rodney Crowell, Maria Mckee, Joe Ely, Iris Dement, Nils Lofgren, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Dan Hicks, Mark O'Conner, David Grisman, Jonathan Richman, Arlo Guthrie, Slaid Cleaves, The Clancy Brothers, Ritchie Cole, The Clancy Brothers, Elmo and Patsy, and members of Counting Crows, The Attractions, Little Feat, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna, The Dead Kennedys, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Tubes, Dr. Hook, The Robert Cray Band, and It's A Beautiful Day, pianist George Michaelski (featured on the San Francisco based TV show "Nash Bridges"), and former Oakland Raider Marv Hubbard.