Me & Jim backstage at Daryl's House.

Happy August!

First off I want to thank everyone who voted for me in the Blues Blast Awards, you're the best! I'll keep you updated when the winners are announced!!

It's been a busy summer, and we've felt lucky to be out there doing shows again – and finally getting to do some album release parties for MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE! It's been really great to see some of you friends & family in NY, CT, VT, MD & ME – we missed you!! Here we are a couple recent snapshots: above with our friend Harpo, who played harmonica with us at our very fun Delta Swingers show at the Red Square in Burlington, VT recently (photo by Orah Moore); and below is a snap of Lovewhip onstage at Harry Brown's Farm by Sam Davis!

There's just a few more days left to VOTE for my album MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE for best Acoustic Blues Album in the Blues Blast Music Awards! We're up for Acoustic Blues Album of the year, and we could use your help. Click the link below and vote for Erin Harpe before the end of the week (voting ends August 7th)! Thanks!!

🗳️ CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

THANKS A MILLION!!! And wish me luck!🤞😊🍀

 

🏆 I'm so excited to be nominated for a 2021 Blues Blast Award!!! 🏆

Happy July 🎆

Hope you had a nice 4th of July weekend! We had a big one, with a whopping three shows! We capped it off yesterday with a mini-festival in Plymouth where we got to play with our friends Gracie Curran and Barrett Anderson. It was great to see so many of you! (More pics on Facebook!) We've got lots more shows coming up, so check out our updated schedule below to see if we're coming your way!!

We've also got a great stay-at-home/watch anywhere option this Saturday, July 10th with our CBD show at Daryl's House! You can purchase a "donation" ticket, which helps us as well as the club (though the concert will actually be live-streamed on Facebook and Youtube for free). Click the link below for more info. (IN PERSON TICKETS are also still available, just scroll to the bottom and choose Dinner Reservation or General Admission.)

Daryl's Tickets & Donations

BLUES BLAST AWARDS!!!

And... I promised you some BIG NEWS! Well, I've been nominated for something big, my first Blues Blast Award! My latest album, Meet Me In The Middle (featuring Jim Countryman), has been nominated for best Acoustic Blues Recording in the Blues Blast Music Awards, and you can vote to help us win!!!

Vote for ERIN HARPE in the “Acoustic Blues Recording” category, and wish me luck!

VOTE NOW!

The wait is over, live music is back!

Photo by Kevin Umlauf.

Happy June,

Summer's here! After a long year of Zoom meetings, being at home, and watching music almost exclusively on our screens, we're happy to say that live music is finally returning!! (And don't we all deserve some live music in our lives?!)

We're excited to announce that we have quite a few in-person shows booked for the summer(!!), with stops all around Massachusetts, and also in Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont! And for those of you that live farther away, we have some online shows you can enjoy, too!

Online Events:

• Daryl's House on Saturday 7/10 – you can attend either in person or online, just buy a ticket on their website!
• Facebook Live Concert on Sunday, June 27th – join us for our next livestream concert! (More info below + RSVP link.)

Join us this Sunday for our Mother's Day Livestream!

Happy May!

This month we are excited to have slightly more things going on than last month! (See below for more info!)

• First, some very exciting news, our album Meet Me In The Middle was nominated for an Independent Blues Award, and you can help us win by voting! 
• Then this Sunday, 5/9 is our Mother's Day Livestream Concert!
• Also, Jim and I just got our vaccines(!), and with venues slowly opening we have actually booked a few in person shows starting this month!
• And there's still time to book a backyard concert with us!

This weekend – don't miss the Vila do Conde Blues Festival!

Tune in April 16th at 5pm (Eastern US Time) for Erin Harpe CBD's appearance at the Villa Sessions - Vila do Conde Blues Festival in Portugal! The three-day festival is free and online this year, and you can watch it from anywhere in the world on the festival's YouTube channel! (See the fest's Facebook event for the full lineup!)

Click here to Subscribe, so you get the notification!

We'll also be sharing the livestream Friday on our Facebook page, where you'll be able to write comments, and we will be commenting back!

Our next Facebook Live Concert is on 4/11!

Sunday, April 11th, join us for the next installment of our monthly free Facebook Live concert, featuring our Country Blues Duo! Join us from 2-3:30pm (EDT) for Erin & Jim’s April Livestream! We've got an hour and a half of music, news, and catching up to do! Bring your dancin' shoes!!

Watch at our Facebook Pages & on Boxford CableTV!

CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

We can't wait to see you there!

 

Sound Waves Magazine Cover Story!

I'm a cover girl!!! It's a big honor to be gracing the cover of the April 2021 issue of Sound Waves Magazine! Thanks to Bill Harriman for a fun interview – and a fabulous article!

“Erin Harpe has a timeless quality about her. Maybe it is her signature look with a flower in her hair and the fishnet stockings, a look that would have worked in any decade over the past century. Or maybe it is her virtuoso finger picking guitar style or the way she can play the slide guitar like some of the recent greats such as Bonnie Raitt or Rory Block. Or maybe it is her beautiful singing voice, especially when she is covering the old-time blues music of Memphis Minnie or Sippie Wallace with a confidence and sass that might remind you of Maria Muldaur. Her style is both endearing and enduring. ...”

Click to read the full article!

 

Our next live-stream concert is coming up Sunday, March 14th at 2pm!

March Merch Madness Sale!

This month we're having a special MARCH MERCH MADNESS SALE! Check out our store to get 30-70% OFF until March 31st! Get great deals on all our albums CD's & LP's, as well as all t-shirts, masks, hats, kazoos, posters, stickers, koozies & all other merch!

Save on Erin Harpe Merch here!

Spring Forward with us Live on 3/14!

Sunday, March 14th – the day the clocks spring forward – we're celebrating with a special Facebook Live concert featuring the Country Blues Duo! Join us from 2-3:30pm (EST) for Erin & Jim’s Spring Forward Livestream. Just don't forget to set your clock forward before bed the night before, or you might miss it! To be safe, be sure to RSVP at our Facebook event, that way you'll get the reminders!

CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

We can't wait to see you there!

MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE Album News:

“One can play the roots country blues differently, louder or faster, to try to impress and dazzle. But nobody today plays and sings it better.”
-Frank Matheis, Living Blues

“‘Meet Me In The Middle’ is one of those albums that has bags of quality, a generally cracking range of tracks and an old-school, acoustic blues mastery that is seldom found these days.”
-Iain Patience

“⭐⭐⭐ Erin Harpe is an unmannered singer and assured guitarist, with an assertive touch and a firm grasp of country blues idiom”
-MOJO

Click here to see all of our full album reviews!

More exciting album news: writer Frank Matheis, who is both a friend and a great scholar of the Piedmont blues, has reviewed MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE in the January issue of Living Blues Magazine(!!!) – and he has some very nice things to say! (He also co-wrote a fantastic book about “DC's Homemade Blues”  with Phil Wiggins called Sweet Bitter Blues.) Here's the review, including some background, and his judgement that this album is HOT!

From Living Blues:

“One can play the roots country blues differently, louder or faster, to try to impress and dazzle. But nobody today plays and sings it better.”

Whatever is going on here is hard to capture in words. It’s genuine, passionate, totally convincing, and outright joyous, a pure listening pleasure, today’s country blues at its very best. Afficianados of the raw, true, and deep acoustic blues can rejoice: Erin Harpe is back and she can sing the tattoos right off your arm. 

The acoustic blues is not typically defined as “hot,” and adjective usually reserved for jazz from the early 20th century. Any poor writer destined to review her new CD, Meet Me In The Middle, will have to grapple for descriptive verbiage that does not seem to overly gush accolades, no matter how well-deserved. Words of praise from the usual music critic vocabulary could fit, but none muster it quite perfectly to summarize the album. Old clichés “lightning in a bottle” or “you’ll need a cold shower” would be too easy. “Hot” does it.” 

🎉Happy New Year to You!🎉

I want to thank you very much for being there with us this year! This week, I found myself looking back at this nutty year, a historic one, and I wanted to share my musical year in review with you. A little warning, it's long, but hey, it was a longgg year (and lots happened)!

PS. If you don't have time to read it now, see you Thursday 12/31 at 7pm EST for Erin & Jim's New Years Eve 2021 Livestream!) 

And now, for an interesting read, here are my highlights from the past 12 months...

Our 2020 Year In Review!

2020, what a crazy year, and I’m sure we can all agree – it’s good to see it end! But it wasn’t all bad... Despite the pandemic, the lock-down, and the many other unpleasantnesses including losing all our gigs, we still found ways to continue to make music and create a sense of connectedness and community. We started live streaming (and did over 60 online shows!), we recorded our first CBD album (quarantined at home) – both of which got us wide attention and support all over the world! We look back at the year that was 2020 with a lot of gratitude, some sadness, and a lot of love. Here’s our 2020 Year in Review! 

Big news!

Not only did our new album, Meet Me In The Middle, get reviewed in the latest edition of MOJO magazine – we got 3 out of 4 stars! Not bad, for our first time appearing in this fantastic global music mag!! Check that off my bucket list! Here's what they said:

⭐⭐⭐

“Erin Harpe is an unmannered singer and assured guitarist, with an assertive touch and a firm grasp of country blues idiom, revealed in performances of Memphis Minnie’s What’s The Matter With The Mill and Lucille Bogan’s I Hate That Train Called The M&O. Among her original compositions, One Fine Day is set to the gorgeous melody of the old parlour guitar piece Spanish Fandango.” 

I immediately thought, “they're right, I don't have any manners”, but then I looked up unmannered (we don't really use that word over here...), and I guess it's a compliment, meaning “not affected or artificial in style.”