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Harpers Ferry is an American-British folk rock band based in the Gloucestershire county of the Cotswolds. The band is made up of Benjamin Harvey, Christopher Rayner, Pia Varma, Simon Frankton and Oliver Court. Childhood friends Benjamin Harvey and Christopher Rayner, who had emigrated from New Zealand with his family, formed the group during their school days at Balcarras in Cheltenham and released an early album entitled "The Redemption of a Common Man." Ben was a Civil War buff and coined the name Harpers Ferry, after the famous Civil War town and home to John Brown's raid. In their late 20s the pair decided to look for other musicians to join Harpers Ferry, eager to create the same kind of musical collaborations as their favorite groups, The Band and Crosby Stills and Nash. In 2012, Pia was introduced into the group as a vocalist and songwriter. Ben and Pia began to write together as well.