The band name is Morgan Rattler and what you get is folk with soul.

Morgan Rattler are Mike Hall, vocals, guitar and mandola, and Sharon Martin violin, viola and vocals.

We are a pair of experienced musicians who have played together in various bands for over 6 years and as a duo we play a diverse range of tunes and songs. Our manifesto below outlines our interests and aims.

 Influences: Alcohol, Altan, Julie Andrews, The Band, Tony Benn, Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Raymond Carver, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Julian Cope, Crystal Gayle, Dean Martin, Karl Marx, Ewan MacColl, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Joni Mitchell, Kelly Joe Phelps, Cole Porter, Mark Rothko, Elaine Showalter, Frank Sinatra, The Smiths, Stiff little Fingers (the early stuff), Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III 

Objectives: To strip folk music back to its emotional core. It has been over-intellectualised to the point where gigs have become like lectures. Not to stop people from thinking, but to let them feel as well. To not play every slide and note as it has been written down or how it ought to be played. To reserve the right to change, improvise and reinvent any piece of music, in the tradition of interpretation. To be proud to get tunes wrong.

To reclaim this music which comes from and belongs to ordinary people. It's not the preserve of the star or the virtuoso and technically gifted.
Anyone who plays, and feels it, should play it.  
To not set musical boundaries. 

From traditional to Sinatra, country to show tunes, soul to punk, it all falls into folk. To create a big sound playing acoustic instruments with no effects, just sweat, frets, bows, notes and passion.
 
Finally, we aim to annoy cliques, snobs and purists, and with a drunken swagger and a clutch of wrong notes to force both fingers into their ears.