tag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:/blogs/erin-harpe-the-delta-swingers?p=2Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers2018-10-17T09:24:05-04:00Erin Harpefalsetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54922011-08-07T13:00:00-04:002021-06-17T06:37:12-04:00Erin, James Montgomery, and Doug Bell at the Onset Blues Festival, 8/6/11!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5638237281690065793%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54912011-08-02T07:40:38-04:002021-10-05T06:41:12-04:00Red photo shoot by Greg Shea!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5630465923106338321%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br>
We did this photo shoot right after our set at ArtBeat (the theme was Red, can you tell?) Which ones do you like? Comments please!!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54902011-08-02T07:38:15-04:002020-09-12T03:00:47-04:00ArtBeat photos!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5630452273228743105%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54892011-07-17T17:19:22-04:002011-07-17T17:19:22-04:00Pics have come in from the NY State Blues Fest!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5630476365950118833%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54882011-07-13T15:15:00-04:002021-10-25T14:42:44-04:00Syracuse New Times review of our NY State Blues Fest set! "Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers opened Saturday’s festivities with their charming, old-timey, swinging blues. Harpe displayed a cute contradiction with a Gibson Les Paul devil-horned guitar hanging around her dainty little body in an off-the-shoulder sheer black dress cinched with a tight black belt around her waist, black fishnets, short heels and a flower headband. She sweetly told the audience how much she loved them and sang her songs with equal sincerity."<br><br><br type="_moz"><a href="http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/newyork/article-5107-blues-fest-2011.html">Read the whole review!</a>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54872011-07-13T06:50:13-04:002017-02-01T14:06:02-05:00New York State Rhythm & Blues Festival video!<iframe width="640" height="390" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8jCXPa4bv-o"></iframe><br><br>
Here's a video from our performance last weekend at the New York State Rhythm & Blues Festival in Syracuse NY. Featuring Erin Harpe guitar/vocals, Jim Countryman bass, Bob Nisi drums/vocals, and special guest Cliff Spencer organ! Video by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jack.o.bocchino">Jack O Bocchino</a>.Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54862011-06-28T19:53:07-04:002022-03-05T18:41:34-05:00The real king of Delta blues-Tommy Johnson<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/4753c133214650f5136ee2a8f5a16bbc06e2c3cd/original/tommyjohnson.jpg?1376658852" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="" height="297" width="300" />Here's a great article I found about my all-time favorite guitar player and blues musician, Tommy Johnson, and how the Robert Johnson myth at the crossroads may in fact have been taken from Tommy Johnson's life. From <a href="http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=7109&current_edition=2010-02-24">Frost Illustrated (click here for original article)</a>.<br><br>
“He said the reason he knowed so much, said he sold hisself to the devil. I asked him how. He said, ‘If you want to learn how to play anything you want to play and learn how to make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a road crosses that way, where a crossroad is. Get there, be sure to get there just a little ’for twelve o’clock that night so you’ll know you’ll be there. You have your guitar and be playing a piece sitting there by yourself. You have to go by yourself and be sitting there playing a piece. A big black man will walk up there and take your guitar, and he’ll tune it. And then he’ll play a piece and hand it back to you. That’s the way I learned how to play anything I want.’ And he could. He used to play anything, don’t care what it was. Church song. You could sing any kind of tangled up song you want to, and I’ll bet you he would play it.”—the Rev. LeDell Johnson<br><br><i>By Strings</i><br><br>
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss.— So, you think you know your blues lore back and forth and heard the above story a thousand times. And, you’ve seen the Coen brothers film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” featuring Chris Thomas King as a wandering blues musician named Tommy Johnson who recites that same story. Of course, you can’t help but guess this famous tale of a blues guitarist selling his soul to the devil is about the legendary Robert Johnson, belatedly called the “King of the Delta Blues.” Well, if you guessed all that, you’d be wrong.<br><br>
In fact, the above quote, taken from a brilliant and telling book by David Evans, is the Rev. LeDell Johnson talking about his brother Tommy Johnson. And, the character in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” really is modeled after Tommy Johnson—not Robert. In what many blues aficionados a huge miscarriage of historical injustice, the powers-that-be in the country’s early recording industry appropriated Tommy Johnson’s legacy and used it to market Robert Johnson for a number of reasons. But, people in the know, such as acclaimed blues musician Bonnie Raitt and members of the ’60s boogie band Canned Heat, know the truth. Fortunately, a dedicated group of folks, including relatives of Tommy Johnson have made a concerted effort to set the record straight and tell others the truth.<br><br>
Just a few facts:<br><br>
First, Tommy Johnson, born in around 1896 in Terry, Miss., was definitely a forerunner of the other Johnson the history books seem to mention more. Tommy Johnson had finished his formal recording career nearly a decade before Robert stepped in front of microphone. Tommy Johnson made a series of beautiful and influential recordings for the Victor and Paramount labels from 1928 to 1929. One of the Victor recordings was “Canned Heat Blues,” the said tale of the joys and dangers of drinking sterno, a staple of the poor during prohibition. And, yes, that’s where the band got the name. By comparison, the other Johnson didn’t record until 1936. (Tommy Johnson’s complete “official” recordings are available as “Tommy Johnson: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order 1928-1929,” Document Records DOCD-5001.)<br><br>
Second, even a cursory listen will tell you that Tommy Johnson had perfected the haunting vocal style of mixing straight vocals with strategically placed wailing falsetto to produce a spine-tingling, emotional effect on listeners—again, long before the other Johnson thought about recording, although the latter often is cited for that innovation to the style.<br><br>
Third, according to family sources and other musicians who survived late into the 20th century, Tommy Johnson was part of a group of musicians who worked together and exchanged ideas. That group included Charlie Patton and Willie Brown—two men considered to be prototypes and mentors of Robert Johnson. Again, Tommy Johnson was there long before. In fact, it’s more likely that he honed his skills playing with those two legends rather than having got them through some supernatural means. Tommy had met the men after running away from home and spending two years away in places such as Rolling Fork, Miss., and Boyle, Miss., before returning to Crystal Springs, Miss., where the family was living in 1914.<br><br>
LeDell said Tommy taught him the style of music he had learned while away and eventually introduced him to Patton and Brown. It was then that he recognized his brother had learned a lot of his music from then as well as having developed an individual style of his own, which included some smooth, innovative guitar playing, with hints of early jazz, that many consider more sophisticated than his more famous antecedent.<br><br>
Four, a reading of Evan’s well-researched book, which consists primarily of first hand accounts from family members, including brothers LeDell and Mager (pronounced “Major”) Johnson, who both were incredibly fine players, and numerous musicians Tommy taught give credence to Evans’ assertion that:<br><br>
“For about thirty years Tommy Johnson was perhaps the most important and influential blues singer in the state of Mississippi. He was one of the few black musician to whom the epithet ‘legendary’ rightfully applies.…”<br><br>
Famed rock and blues musician the late Cub Koda of Brownsville Station and who later replaced the great Hound Dog Taylor in the seminal House Rockers, writing for All Music Guide put it this way:<br><br>
“Next to Son House and Charley Patton, no one was more important to the development of pre-Robert Johnson Delta blues than Tommy Johnson.….”<br><br>
So, why is it in this day and age that so much credit for Tommy Johnson’s work has been given to others? Johnson’s niece, Vera Johnson Collins, has a number of ideas. According to Collins, daughter of Tommy’s brother Mager, money and politics had a lot to do with what happened to her uncle’s legacy.<br><br>
“I think what happened with Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson, is they got little pieces of the story and they didn’t read that much about Tommy Johnson,” said Collins.<br><br>
Tommy’s story about selling his soul to the devil and the truth of his traveling made a good story for marketing purposes. But, even though he officially stopped recording in 1929, Tommy, who didn’t die until 1956, was still around, along with his relatives, where as Robert Johnson, who died in 1938, just two years after his recording debut, appeared to have no heirs (though one son Claude did surface later) and it was easier for record companies to push his music and exploit him after his death, explained Collins. And, she said, they used her Uncle Tommy’s accomplishments and stories to market Robert Johnson’s music.<br><br>
“They took Tommy’s story and knew that they could take that story and make Robert huge and they ran with it,” she said. “And they had to keep on telling that lie because they had no one else to challenge them.”<br><br>
Fortunately, Tommy Johnson, had hundreds of family members and friends in Mississippi, who knew the truth, among them, Collins’ dad Mager, who by all accounts was just as good, and maybe in some ways a stronger musician than his brother Tommy. She said her dad and her uncles LeDell and Clarence were all family men, so they weren’t able to travel and roam like her Uncle Tommy to find work and fame as a full-time musician.<br><br>
“My dad ‘n’ them was bad. They were so bad they were registered in the war (World War II) and white folks wouldn’t let them go because that was their entertainment. If that had gone to the Army and played those guitars, they would have been famous all over the world,” said Collins.<br><br>
In fact, said Collins, the whole family was imbued with remarkable musical talent. Of the 13 children born to Idell and Mary Ella Johnson, sons Tommy, Mager, LeDell, Clarence and George and daughters Idella, Pearlie and Viola all played some. And, the family had a long musical pedigree. They were related to the famous bluesman Lonnie Johnson on their dad’s side, but also to the famed Wilson family on their mother’s side, which boasted 16 children, nearly all, except Mary Ella herself played.<br><br>
Collins said those skills really went back to Africa.<br><br>
“Grandaddy was a black French African off the northern coast of Africa. Grandma was a white African, Caucasian,” said Collins. “If you listen to Uncle Tommy’s music, you can hear it in the playing. You can hear it in the singing. You don’t know anybody who could go from that howl to a low baritone. That comes from across the sea. My daddy could sing like that.”<br><br>
In 2005, Collins started the nonprofit Tommy Johnson Blues Foundation in Crystal Springs to ensure that her uncle’s legacy is not lost and that his story is spread throughout the world so that history can be corrected. The foundation already has undertaken a number of projects including organizing an annual blues festival in Tommy’s honor and conducting a successful campaign to have his gravesite at a nearby church cemetery declared a historically significant site by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.<br><br>
In October of 2001 a headstone was provided for Tommy Johnson’s grave by the Mount Zion Memorial Fund, thanks in part to contributions from musicians like Bonnie Raitt, a non-profit group that helps to restore the gravesites of Mississippi musicians. Unfortunately, a controversy over road access to the cemetery has prevented the Tommy Johnson Blues Foundation from placing the marker at the grave. The gravestone is kept at the Crystal Springs Public Library until access to the cemetery is reopened. Collins likened the problem to the general problem of getting Tommy Johnson’s legacy restored to its rightful place.<br><br>
“There’s a lot of politicking in it, just like what they’ve done with the cemetery issue. It shouldn’t be taking ten years to get the marker at the grave,” said Collins.<br><br>
Meanwhile, she said she’s determined to spread the word about Tommy Johnson’s impact on the music world.<br><br>
“There’s a lot of people that do know but he hasn’t gotten is due. He should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.… he should have gotten a Grammy because if it wasn’t’ for him there wouldn’t be any blues. He hasn’t gotten his due when it comes to our traditional country blues and blues as a whole,” said Collins. “It’s like they wanted to keep Tommy Johnson hid because they didn’t want him exposed because he’s been dead over 50 years.<br><br>
“These people have tried to steal everything that my uncle had. They came to Crystal Springs and recorded Howlin’ Wolf—Chester Burnett. But that sound that he got, they got from Uncle Tommy. My daddy said that sound that they got on that record, they got from Uncle Tommy. I went to the West Point [Mississippi] Howlin’ Wolf Museum and talked to the man there. He said, ‘Everybody knows your Uncle Tommy was a great influence on Chester Burnett.’”<br><br>
Collins said others, such as John Lee Hooker, Bessie Smith, Little Milton, and Memphis Minnie were exposed to her uncle’s music early on.<br><br>
“All those people used to be in Crystal Springs,” she said.<br><br>
As for the character that models his life in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Collins said she was happy to see that—especially since the producers acknowledge that it is Tommy Johnson, not the other Johnson, who served as the character’s model.<br><br>
“I was delighted in that, because that let me know that some people are reading and some people are aware and that movie brought that out,” she said. “Chris Thomas King did a wonderful job acting as Tommy Johnson. They couldn’t’ have picked a better person.<br><br>
“I’m thinking about how he was at the crossroads and I’m thinking about how my dad said he almost got lynched by the KKK and I said, ‘Dang they must have done some research.’”<br><br>
For more information about Tommy Johnson, try to find a copy of David Evans’ excellent book “Tommy Johnson,” pick up the Document Records recordings and visit The Tommy Johnson Blues Foundations’ website at www.tommyjohnsonblues.com. Or call (601) 685-4751 or (601) 212-6088.<br><br>
This is part of the February 24, 2010 online edition of <a href="http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=7109&current_edition=2010-02-24">Frost Illustrated</a>.<br><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54852011-06-03T16:59:06-04:002011-06-03T16:59:06-04:00May photos - Johnny D's and Ladies of the Blues!<embed width="600" height="400" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5614164060045569553%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54842011-05-15T12:20:00-04:002011-05-15T12:20:00-04:00A few more Wake Up The Earth Fest pics!<embed height="400" width="600" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5607055240536452145%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br>
Photos by Emily Morris.Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54832011-05-12T10:10:00-04:002021-01-21T00:15:32-05:00Wake Up The Earth video!<iframe height="300" frameborder="0" width="400" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/23504104?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0"></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/23504104">Jamaica Plain Celebrates "Wake Up the Earth"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2045560">Chris Lovett</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br>
Here's a video about the Wake Up The Earth Festival we performed at last week. We are featured at 0:53 to the end! Produced by the Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN).Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54822011-05-10T08:36:32-04:002023-12-10T11:45:33-05:00Wake Up The Earth Fest pics!!!<embed height="400" width="600" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5605139381351385473%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCJ3bkcfbzZzMHw%26hl%3Den_US" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54812011-04-12T14:05:21-04:002020-12-17T07:08:08-05:00More love from Boston Band Crush!!<a href="http://www.bostonbandcrush.org/2011/04/cd-on-songs-erin-harpe-delta-swingers.html">http://www.bostonbandcrush.org/2011/04/cd-on-songs-erin-harpe-delta-swingers.html<br><br><br type="_moz"></a> Tuesday, April 12, 2011 C.D. On Songs: Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers - “Love Whip Blues" Posted by C.D. Di Guardia Sorry, vegans. But Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers are playing at a place called the Chicken Bone on Friday evening, and there's no way around it. You're going to the Chicken Bone in Framingham. You're going to see Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers (with the Tokyo Tramps). You're over 21 years of age and you have $5 in your pocket for some sweet, sweet music. Do we have an accord? Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers - “Love Whip Blues" [Download It!] In case you did not know that Erin Harpe is in a band called “Love Whip,” then let me be the first to tell you - Erin Harpe is in a band called “Love Whip.” And they sound nothing like Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers. Well, wait a second. Maybe that is not so true. Both experiences are a party - even if the whole electrical situation is slightly different. “Love Whip Blues” has a crispy sort of snap to it; where the quick bluesy tags at the end of each phrase sort of gather up everything tasty in the preceding moments and wrap them up all nice. The snap is palpable, like the whip is being wielded by an expert whipsman (or whipswoman?) and they could knock the ashes off your cigar from eight feet away. Whether she’s the Electric Empress or the Veiled Veela, Harpe’s vocals are always a high point of any mix, any record and possibly your entire week. As we have stated before, the woman’s last name is an instrument - that’s a dead give away. Harpe’s smart vocals crack and swing like the figurative whip - she is capable of both batting her eyelashes and a few whip-lashes as well. Don’t lie to us - you love it.Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54802011-04-12T13:40:00-04:002011-04-12T13:40:00-04:00Upcoming show news! Wake Up The Earth Festival, Johnny D's, Cafe 939 & "Ladies of the Blues"<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="text_exposed_show">The Delta Swingers are playing the <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108978869125939">Wake Up The Earth Festival</a> </strong>this year! It's on <b>Saturday</b> <strong>May 7th</strong> in Jamaica Plain<br><br>
Then, we just booked a show at <a href="http://www.johnnyds.com"><strong>Johnny D's</strong></a> on <b>Wednesday</b> <strong>May 18th,</strong> so all you Somervillans mark your calendars! </span></font>
<p><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Then I make a few rare solo appearances. On <strong>Thursday, May 19th</strong> Erin plays an opening set at <strong>Cafe 939</strong> with <a href="http://thedavidmayfieldparade.com/">David Mayfield Parade</a> and <a href="http://www.jackgrace.com/">Jack Grace</a>, this show is $10, all ages and Erin's set is at 8pm. Then on <strong>Saturday, May 21st</strong> the Boston Blues Society presents "Ladies of the Blues" at <strong>The Bull Run</strong> in Shirley, an all-women show featuring 10 local blueswomen, from the up-and-coming to local legends Toni Lynn Washington and Shirley Lewis. </font></p>
<p><br><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>UPCOMING DELTA SWINGERS SHOWS:</b></span><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></p>
<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Saturday May 7th<br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108978869125939">Wake Up The Earth Festival</a><br></strong>Southwest Corridor at Stony Brook T on the Orange Line, Jamaica Plain, MA <br>
12pm-6pm, Free, All Ages! <br>
The Delta Swingers are on the Moon Stage at 12:45pm-1:30pm </font><br><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><br>
Wednesday, May 18th<br></strong><a href="http://www.johnnyds.com"><strong>Johnny D's</strong></a><br>
17 Holland St., Somerville, MA</font><br><p><br><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>SOLO APPEARANCES:</b></span></p>
<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Thursday May 19th<br><a href="http://cafe939.com/">Cafe 939</a></strong><br>
939 Boylston St., Boston MA, <br>
8pm, $10, all ages<br>
w/<a href="http://thedavidmayfieldparade.com/">David Mayfield Parade</a> and <a href="http://www.jackgrace.com/">Jack Grace</a></font><br><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Saturday, May 21,</strong> The Boston Blues Society Presents <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187917861234480">"Ladies of the Blues"</a> at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com/">Bull Run Restaurant</a>, 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, w/<span class="text_exposed_show">Toni Lynn Washington, Shirley Lewis, Cheryl Aruda, Diane Blue, Gracie Curran, Cindy Daley, Carolyn Waters, Lisa Marie, and Lydia Warren. For more info on the performers <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187917861234480">check out the event page</a></span></font><br><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
And a note about our new <a href="http://www.erinharpe.com/downloads.cfm">DOWNLOADS</a> page. You can now download select tracks FREE, pay-what-you-want for albums and tracks, and stream full songs <a href="./downloads.cfm">here</a>!<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></font>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54792011-04-10T09:35:00-04:002021-06-23T06:30:00-04:00Erin Harpe And The Delta Swingers rocked Smoken’ Joe’s Fri. 4/9/11!<b><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/0e01acb655a40a4d641fceb46a59876157db8a72/large/DeltaSwingers_BillCopeland2.jpg?1376658851" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="399" width="600" /><br>
Words and photos by <a href="http://www.billcopelandmusicnews.com/2011/04/erin-harpe-and-the-delta-swingers-rocked-smoken-joes/">Bill Copeland</a></b> on April 10, 2011<br><br>
Erin Harpe And The Delta Swingers recently competed in the International Blues Competition in Memphis, and they just got back from a gig at South By Southwest Music Conference And Festival in Austin. Harpe and her Delta Swingers are a Boston-based blues band who play authentic renditions of the old time sounding vintage blues from the 1920 and the 1930s. Their show last night at Boston’s Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ and Blues found them in top form.<br><br>
Boy, this band is a real treat for fans of serious vintage blues. The purists will always dig the vintage guitar and harp sounds from the 1920 and 1930s. They will also love the big stomp in the rhythm section. There was just so much for a blues historian to sink his teeth into. The harp is fulsome and played with a lot of historical knowledge of this great American music.<br><br>
The first half hour of last night’s show was dedicated to duets between by Harpe and her harp player Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt. It was cool how Rosenblatt’s flying notes circled around Harpe’s nimble, mellow picking style. Harpe really knows how to play those vintage blues songs from the early days of this respected American genre.<br><br>
Each of Harpe’s notes seemed to echo old time colors and tones. Her picking style can make you picture a poor southern family gathered on their front porch mid-summer playing and singing of their troubles in their time. Her melodies are almost hypnotic in that they can lull you with their subtle interplay of strikingly sharp colors.<br><br>
Moreover, Harpe’s has an incredibly vibrant voice for crooning these nuggets from yesteryear. Her voice holds a niche between silky and raspy, flowing smoothly with just the right touch of edge. This showed in tunes like “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out,” in which she pushed her verses with elegant grace around her rhythmic guitar melodies.<br><br>
Harpe’s picking got crisper and Rosenblatt’s harmonica got chirpier on “You’re Gonna Quit Me,” showing their control of dynamics and style. Harpe manufactured on her guitar the low end notes and her higher melodic ones simultaneously. Her voice got wider and her timbre expanded, and the full vibrant sound the two conjured whetted the appetite to hear what the full band would eventually do.<br><br>
Harpe introduced Memphis Minnie’s “In My Girlish Days” and put a little extra pizzazz into her picking, taking those old time notes for a walk around the block before returning them back home again. Her vocal was more assertive here, too, bringing out that Memphis Minnie attitude. Her take on Bessie Smith’s “Take It Right Back” sounded like country blues guitar, guitar subbing for the piano on the original, and she nailed how Smith stretched vocal notes and spun the lyrics around the supposed beat.<br><br>
Harpe and Rosenblatt were then joined by bass player Juicy Jim Countryman and drummer Bob Nisi, and The Delta Swingers showed that they have earned their name. They moved each song forward with a breezy, grand grace that made you feel the moving steel parts in this rhythm section. On “Bye Bye Blues” Rosenblatt whipped up an extra dose of power when he cupped his microphone to his harp. The three players forced Harpe to step up her game, making her more expressive at the mic and in her picking approach. Her voice got sharper and her vintage guitar styles took on a larger, wider angle in the songs.<br><br>
Her own “Charles River Delta Blues” found her and her boys taking it down to Mississippi. The rhythm section gave it a heavy two-step feel while Rosenblatt took it up high with a melody line that stabbed into the groove. Harpe found the right spaces in the song to assert her twangy blues notes and her harmony with Nisi, who is also a backing vocalist, gave each chorus some lift, making you picture the wings of the song catching an air current and taking off.<br><br>
Harpe’s picking style often, on slow tempo material, tugged the song forward with sharp, melodic notes. She and her boys were doing something right last night. Their popular rendition of vintage blues tunes proved popular with the crowd who had packed Smoken’ Joe’s. When Harped sang in a hint of drawl voice, her vocal melody got the needed muscle to politely glide over a knobby beat.<br><br>
Harpe had fun with “Chauffer” by throwing some twangs in, making it sound punchy. She and her Delta Swingers turned John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” into a stomping two-step complete with harmonica blasts and crisp guitar notes that made you picture blues out on the range.<br><br>
Harpe held her vocal notes in the air on Lonnie Johnson’s “Winner The Wailer,” breathing blues into them while Rosenblatt blew a wide circular melody that conjured up the enormous sea.<br><br>
The second set showed Harpe and her Delta boys pumping out a danceable beat underneath Rosenblatt’s serious harp on “Virtual Booty Blues.” The group got many people on their feet with a Delta swing. An original Harpe tune called “LoveWhip Blues” was how, according to Harpe, how Memphis Minnie would have interpreted the name of her other band LoveWhip. The tune was marked by Rosenblatt’s whirling dervish of happy harp notes.<br><br>
“Sitting And Watching” featured an interesting harp line that skipped along on a joyful beat and “Stop And Listen” was a country two-step with frenetic pacing that brought a lot of people to their feet.<br><br>
Erin Harpe And The Delta Swingers definitely control and channel vintage blues. Blues purists will likely always welcome them, and just about anybody who likes a good time will enjoy seeing them perform. You don’t even have to be a fan of their style of music to have fun at their shows.<br><br>
See the original article at <a href="http://www.billcopelandmusicnews.com/2011/04/erin-harpe-and-the-delta-swingers-rocked-smoken-joes/">Bill Copeland Music News</a>! Thanks for the nice words Bill!<br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54782011-03-24T08:20:00-04:002020-06-27T08:50:45-04:00Bill Copeland interviews Erin about Memphis and the IBC!Here's the article, featured right now on <a href="http://www.billcopelandmusicnews.com/2011/03/erin-harpe-recounts-her-recent-memphis-experience/"><b>Bill Copeland Music News</b></a>:<br><br>
Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers recently returned to Boston after competing in the International Blues Competition in Memphis. The band got as far as the semi-finals, and, although they didn’t make it into the finals, they still value their experience and their memories of Memphis.<br><br>
Winning the Boston Blues challenge months earlier was a huge high. Harpe was surprised, though. The other bands were electric and heavier sounding. “How can we beat them with our little old Delta blues,” she said she had asked herself at the time.<br><br>
“I think it was really close.” After that victory, Harpe and her Delta Swingers received support from the Boston Blues Society who had hosted the Boston contest. Fundraising efforts featuring Harpe and many other notable local players made it possible for this band from Jamaica Plain to go to Memphis. As time went by, Harpe and her boys became more sure of themselves.<br><br>
Aside from Harpe who sings and plays acoustic guitar, her band features bass player Jim Countryman, harmonica player Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt, and drummer/vocalist Bob Nisi. Heading down to Memphis, Harpe and her band mates got themselves psyched up and confident, and Harpe kept saying, ’We’re gonna win! We‘re gonna win.’”<br><br>
Harp and her band mates befriended down there a blues band from Israel. Harpe had read an article about these Israelis players, and, at the end of the article they too were saying they’re going to win.<br><br>
“We realized there were a hundred and thirty bands out there going, ‘We’re gonna win!” After their first night, Harpe and her Delta swingers were at a jam at an old theater called The New Daisy when they found out they had won. Competition officials were making the rounds to each venue to announce the winners at that stage of the game.<br><br>
“When they got to our venue, we thought something was up because the guy who was MCing every night came running out, and they said he’s going to do the announcement for this one.”<br><br>
The announcer had gotten more excited about Harpe’s band each night when they were playing the first two quarter finals. He came up to make the announcement, and after he had announced they won, Harpe and her band mates got very excited and started screaming with glee. Yet, they didn’t get any further than the semi-final. Harpe said that her band mate, Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt,” had just recently received their copy of the judges scores.<br><br>
“From what Rosy said, it sounded like one of the judges wasn’t as into what we were doing,” she said, “but everybody else loved us.” One of the other judges came up to Harpe excitedly and gushed. Harpe wasn’t sure if a judge was even supposed to offer such a glowing personal opinion.<br><br>
Competition was really tight during the semi-finals. The club was crowded with people wearing their best outfits. Harpe felt she had finally hit the big times when she saw that an official from Alligator Records was one of the judges. Other bands were asking her to stay around to check out their sets.<br><br>
In these Memphis contests, the talent caliber of any given band usually stands no chance against the personal preferences of the judges. Harpe feels that her band has a unique approach to blues in that they‘re a Delta influenced band and that most players playing that brand of blues usually play it in a solo or duo format.<br><br>
“I think we were probably something unique and out of the ordinary, definitely. But there were a lot of people doing Delta stuff that were like duo or solo. I think it was a little of both. I think we were something different because there were a lot of Chicago style blues bands.”<br><br>
Harpe didn’t have time to socialize with judges, but the few she talked to liked her band a lot. After watching bands play for six to seven hours a day, the judges may have thought Harpe and her Delta swingers were a breath of fresh air.<br><br>
“It’s pretty respectable to have gotten to the semi finals,” she said. “My friends from the Israeli band didn’t even make it to the semi finals. So, that’s hard. You go all the way down there and don’t even go to the semi finals.”<br><br>
Harpe said the experience was well worth the time and effort she and her band mates put into it. “The blues scene isn’t really that big around the world. They all really came together. A lot of different people came down to see us.”<br><br>
Harpe got a chance to meet people who book festivals in Europe and internationally. “We couldn’t have done that anywhere else,” she said.<br><br>
With their competition cut short by the judges, Harpe had time for sight-seeing. She and her band mates checked out the Stax museum, Sun recording studio, an awards show, and drummer Nisi went to Graceland.<br><br>
Sitting in on Bob Margolin’s blues jam at Rum Boogie on Beale Street on Saturday night was the most memorable experience. After getting through the first song without incident, Harpe broke her acoustic guitar and her to play the second tune, “Virtual Booty Blues” with Margolin’s electric. The scene will appear in a video to be posted on the band’s website and social networking sites. Other footage will also appear as the band brought a videographer with them to Memphis so their entire journey would take place in front of a camera.<br><br>
The next step for Harpe and the Delta Swingers will take place this Monday when they land in Austin, Texas to play at a venue near the South By Southwest Conference and Festival. The band want to play festivals this summer and they also hope to tour.<br><br>
The Memphis line-up of Harpe’s blues band is still together and their future goal is to make a full length.<br><br>
Harpe’s Afro-pop band LoveWhip is still intact and it will play together again in April as a larger band than the three piece it has been in recent years.<br><br><a href="http://www.billcopelandmusicnews.com/2011/03/erin-harpe-recounts-her-recent-memphis-experience/">See the original article</a><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54772011-03-18T13:20:00-04:002011-03-18T13:20:00-04:00More pics and stories from Austin!<embed width="600" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5586977814603393857%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br><br>
We had a really great time in Austin last week, and we're finally starting to get over our SX-jet-lag. We would like to thank the local Austinites who hosted us and booked us shows while we were down there: John Conquest from 3rd Coast Music, Curtis at the Evangeline Cafe, Leeann Atherton, and Jane from Amelia's Retro Vogue. We saw many, many bands, and of note were: Brennen Leigh, Wanda Jackson, !!!, Baskery, Porter Davis, Leeann Atherton, Lil Mo & the Monicats, Yvette Landry, Barbara K, Border Blasters, Linda McRae, Matt Harlan, Ray Bonneville, Sally Spring, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, Eillen Jewel, and Les Sampou. We didn't get to see everyone we wanted to, which is impossible, but we saw a lot. We only got one pic of us playing (thanks to Bob's sister Mary!), though I saw a lot of cameras so perhaps more will show up soon. Here are a few shots we snapped as we ran around and played 7 gigs and watched tons of bands, ate tacos and talked to people from Norway, France, Texas, and all over the country and world!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54722011-03-08T12:00:00-05:002011-03-08T12:00:00-05:00Podcast of our appearance on WZBC's Sunday Morning Country!Last Sunday we stopped by WZBC and paid a visit to Cousin Kate. We had a great time, played a few tunes, and talked about our upcoming trip to Austin next week and more. Check out the podcast of the show! You can just click on the play button at the left to stream it from this web page, you can click the Download button, or subscribe with iTunes.<br type="_moz">46:39Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54762011-03-07T11:05:19-05:002017-01-11T08:36:02-05:00Next week: Erin & the Delta Swingers hit SXSW!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/32149b735bb951344b0642e5fb57a688821fd6fc/original/SXSW2011.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="670" width="369" /><br>
Stay tuned for blog updates, and video shorts from Austin all week here at our blog, and you can stay connected with us at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ErinHarpe.and.the.Delta.Swingers" target="_new">FaceBook</a> all week too!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54752011-02-27T18:04:36-05:002017-01-11T08:36:02-05:00Green Door Pub Stratton Mt. VT this Saturday!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/042d94d5bd93d615e7efe3ad51bf99029444fd08/original/ELWH_Delta_Swingers8.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="647" width="500" /><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54742011-02-24T12:00:00-05:002011-02-24T12:00:00-05:00Boston Band Crush review of "Virtual Booty Blues" with free download!<i>Our friend C.D. Di Guardia over at </i><a target="_new" href="http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/"><i>Boston Band Crush</i></a><i> has been a supporter of mine for years, here he reviews our new song Virtual Booty Machine Blues in his column C.D. on Songs, and gives away a free download too! (</i><a target="_new" href="http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/2011/02/cd-on-songs-erin-harpe-delta-swingers.html"><i>Click here</i></a><i> to go to the full article and the download.) Here's the review:</i><br><br>
Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers have been all over Memphis lately, but they are now safe and sound back in good old 1955 Jamaica Plain. Well, maybe they're just back. They will prove they are back by bringing the blues explosion to the Midway Cafe on Friday night. They will be joined by Rick Berlin, Jonny Woodard & The Handsome Homeless, and Pariah Beat. You don't have to sing the blues to get in or get out – there's going to be enough of that onstage.<br><br>
I have been writing about Erin Harpe for a while. Like years and years. I consider her one of the best vocalists in town. Sorry, Kay Hanley. One thing that struck me today is that I have never seized the irony of the woman’s last name being a musical instrument. Duh. It makes perfect sense – Harpe herself is a musical instrument. How else would she be able to straddle the worlds of psycho-electric dance music and down-low dirty delta blues and come out smelling like a rose every time?<br><br>
“Virtual Booty Machine Blues” is a great moment in Harpe’s personal catalog. Just last night, I saw the episode of House M.D. where the guy from The Hurt Locker is a punk/noise musician, but writes melodic sensible stuff under a different identity. Harpe is da bomb, but she smashes down the walls between Electric Empress and Black-Veiled Blues-Woman with “Virtual Booty Machine Blues.” This track doesn’t act as if Lovewhip doesn’t exist; it simply reworks the original piece.<br><br>
A honking harmonica and set of razzle-dazzle guitar chords jangle this track on its way down the line, with Harpe hanging off a rail on the side of the trolley and letting her voice fly. Harpe’s performance sparkles with what the French might call "a certain I don’t know what,” even when she’s not pushing the vocal envelope. Harpe lives in her own vocal wheelhouse, making each blue note beeeeennd to her will and then thank her for bending it. And we thank her also.<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54732011-02-09T10:20:00-05:002011-02-09T10:20:00-05:00Memphis pics and news!<embed height="400" width="600" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5571449358005218145%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br>
We didn't make it to the finals, but we did make it into the semi-finals, which means we were in the top 40 out of 110 international bands this year at the 27th Annual International Blues Challenge! We played three sets at the IBC, including two nights for the quarter finals at the Red Rooster, and one night at the semi finals at Albert's. Then we ended up getting to play a few tunes at Bob Margolin's blues jam Saturday night at the Rum Boogie, where Erin broke her guitar and got to finish the Virtual Booty Blues on Bob's Gibson Les Paul (named "Goldilocks"). Our friend, videographer Greg Shea, got lots of great footage of our live performances, interviews and behind-the-scenes fun, and is currently working on a documentary of our trip. Stay tuned for more news about the film, which should be out soon! And if you were in Memphis and have footage of our sets, <a href="mailto:jimcountryman@gmail.com">please forward it to us</a>, we may include them in the documentary – we'll give you credit of course!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54712011-02-05T07:45:00-05:002017-02-01T14:05:59-05:00Video Postcard from Memphis!<iframe width="550" height="335" frameborder="0" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AAjo5_waPII" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54702011-01-30T16:10:43-05:002017-01-11T08:36:02-05:00MEMPHIS! Here we come!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/8ef4378ba018a7f14b4ea554ca60406b55701f36/original/memphis_logo.gif?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="" height="94" width="192" />This week we leave for Memphis! When we check in at the International Blues Challenge on Wednesday, they will tell us when our first performance will be, which we will post right here on our website! Wed. & Thurs. we'll play in the same venue for two nights for the Quarter Finals. Then if we progress to the next round we'll do the Semi-Finals, and if we do well enough we'll move on to the Finals at the historic <a href="http://orpheum-memphis.com/">Orpheum</a> on Saturday afternoon!<br><br>
We've got a great set ready for the competition! Gonna knock 'em dead with some new originals: the Delta Swing and Love Whip Blues, as well as some classics you all know and love. Hopefully we'll post some video of parts of the set this week, and we'll take you along on some adventures we have in Memphis, Home of the Blues!<br><br>
We'll keep you up-to-date with venue info, pics and videos from the IBC all week here on the website. You can also keep up with us at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ErinHarpe.and.the.Delta.Swingers">our FaceBook page</a>! <br><br>
Beale Street here we come!<br><br>
-Erin & the Delta Swingers (Jim, Rosy & Bob)<br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54502011-01-25T16:29:31-05:002011-01-25T16:29:31-05:00Friday: Memphis Sendoff Party at Smoken' Joes!Our big Memphis Sendoff Party will be on Friday, January 28th at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Smoken-Joes-BBQ-Blues/139957683488"><b>Smoken' Joes</b></a>, where it all started! We leave for the Blues Society's <a href="http://www.blues.org/ibc/#ref=ibc_index"><b>International Blues Challenge</b></a> a couple of days later, so come on down and wish us luck! <i> Smoken' Joe's, 351 Washington Street, Brighton, MA.</i><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54562011-01-16T06:51:52-05:002011-01-16T06:51:52-05:00Thanks everyone!Yesterday our Kickstarter fundraiser ended, and we made our goal! Thanks going out to each and every one of you who contributed! We could not do this without you! Stay tuned for your rewards those of you who contributed. <br><br>
Now we're getting ready for the International Blues Challenge, only a couple of weeks away. We're practicing our sets, recording them, planning our wardrobe, making connections, we are soooo excited!! We'll keep you updated!<br><br>
xoxo,<br>
Erin and the Delta Swingers (Jim, Bob and Rosy)<br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54382011-01-14T06:53:15-05:002011-01-14T06:53:15-05:00One day left in our Kickstarter Campaign to go to MEMPHIS!Our fundraising for Memphis is about to wrap up, with our online Kickstarter campaign ending tomorrow – Sat. Jan. 15th! If you've been meaning to donate but haven't gotten to it yet, you still have one day to give a little towards our journey to the Home of the Blues for the International Blues Challenge! We would love to send you a personal postcard from Beale Street, check out how you can be part of our trip!<br><br><iframe width="500px" height="420px" frameborder="0" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html"></iframe><a target="_new" href="http://<iframe%20frameborder=%220%22%20height=%22410px%22%20src=%22http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html%22%20width=%22480px%22></iframe>"><span style="font-size: larger;"><b><br>
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THANKS, xoxoxoxoxox!!!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54642011-01-06T07:05:35-05:002011-01-06T07:05:35-05:00Only a few days left in our Kickstarter Campaign to go to MEMPHIS!Our Memphis Fundraiser Tuesday Dec. 14th at Johnny D's was a big success, and we are now well on our way to Memphis – big thanks to everyone who took part! So far we have raised about half of what we'll need for our trip to the Home of the Blues to compete in the International Blues Challenge this February. For the rest, we've put together an online Kickstarter campaign. There is a really fun little video we made about it, and you can get some pretty neat rewards from us, <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis" target="_new">check it all out here</a>:<br><br><iframe width="500px" height="420px" frameborder="0" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html"></iframe> <br>
It would be great if you could make a pledge, and even more importantly, share this link! <br><b>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis</b><br><br>
We need to raise $1500, and we're getting really close to our goal! (If we don't meet our goal, the project doesn't get funded.) But we're so close! The campaign only goes until <b>January 15th at 10:57pm</b>, so please get on board our blues train and HELP SEND A SWINGER TO MEMPHIS!<br><br><a target="_new" href="http://<iframe%20frameborder=%220%22%20height=%22410px%22%20src=%22http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html%22%20width=%22480px%22></iframe>"><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>CLICK HERE TO DONATE!</b></span></a><br><br>
THANKS, every little bit helps!!!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54692010-12-22T07:15:00-05:002022-05-24T03:20:26-04:00Free Xmas Blues Mix! Happy Holidays!!!<a target="_new" href="https://www.yousendit.com/download/RlRvK3BETStVVGxFQlE9PQ"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/790be49b7a7f2ab632a1a07a52b77d406886d6d9/original/Merry-Christmas.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="290" width="390" /></a><br>
Here's a great Christmas mix from me and the Delta Swingers! The first track is my version of Bessie Smith's "At the Christmas Ball"! Have a safe and fun holiday everyone, and thanks for a great year!!! <a target="_new" href="https://www.yousendit.com/download/RlRvK3BETStVVGxFQlE9PQ"><br>
Click here to download!</a> <br>
(Download expires on December 29th at 10pm.)<br>
Enjoy!<br>
Cheers,<br>
Erin and the Delta Swingers (Jim, Rosy and Bob)<br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54682010-12-11T11:55:00-05:002022-03-05T18:42:46-05:00Send a Swinger to Memphis! Johnny D's Benefit Tues. 12/14 and online Kickstarter Benefit!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/0cec712a2202546a488127e5250a11098230eb2d/original/JohnnyDsJPMemphisNEW.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="773" width="500" /><br><b>TUESDAY NIGHT, 12/14</b>, is our BIG EXTRA-SPECTACULAR FANTABULOUS MEMPHIS BENEFIT at <a href="http://www.johnnyds.com" target="_new"><b>JOHNNY D'S</b></a> in Somerville! The list of blues superstars on the bill has been steadily growing, and we are SO HONORED to have the support of so many in the blues scene! This will be a once-in-a-lifetime show, it's for a great cause, and it's CHEAP! For only $10 you get to see Phil Pemberton and Roomful of Blues, Danny Klein's Full House, James Montgomery, Dennis Brennen, Tim Gearan, The 11th Hour Band, Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, Alizon Lissance, Geoff Bartley, Satch Romano & Cindy Daley, and MORE! Hosted by Holly Harris and Jim Carty!<br><br>
Show starts at 7:30pm sharp, and every minute will be JAM-PACKED with goodness!<br><br>
We'll also have raffles, win money and cool stuff!! All proceeds will go towards our travel expenses to go to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee, February 2-5th 2011!!!<br><br>
And if you can't make it and would still like to contribute something, check out our online <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis">Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign</a>. <br><br><hr><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><b><span style="font-size: larger;">KICKSTARTER online benefit with FUN REWARDS!!!</span></b></span><br><iframe width="500px" height="420px" frameborder="0" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html"></iframe> <br>
Experience Memphis with us – the Blues Capital of the World! – as we journey down to the International Blues Challenge in February! You can be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime blues mission to Memphis by giving as little as $15 in our online <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis" target="_new">Kickstarter campaign</a>, and you’ll get some great personalized rewards from us while we’re down there! Plus you’ll be able to say you were there with us before we made it big! :)<br><br>
Share in the experience with these really fun special rewards for your donation:<br><ul>
<li>An “Exclusive Digital Download”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">An unreleased demo (the same demo that we'll be handing out to industry people in Memphis!)</span>
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<li>A “Postcard from Memphis”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">A signed postcard from the whole band from Memphis!</span>
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<li>An “Exclusive USTREAM Online Concert”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">We will perform a live, online (invite only) concert through USTREAM.</span>
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<li>A “Video Postcard from Memphis!”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">We'll record a unique video especially for you from Beale Street in Memphis, upload it to Youtube, and send you the link so you can share it with all your friends!</span>
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<li>“Delta Swingers Memorabilia!”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">Get cool signed stuff from each band member: a harmonica of Rosy's, signed drum sticks from Bob, a tin of Jim's Murray's Hair Pomade, and a pair of Erin's FISHNET STOCKINGS with a thank-you note attatched!!</span>
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<li>“A Private Delta Swingers Concert!”<br><span style="font-size: smaller;">We will play a set at your house, anywhere in the Northeast!</span>
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Plus all donations come with a Delta Swingers Button and Sticker! Each level comes with ALL THE PREVIOUS LEVELS of rewards!!<br><br><a target="_new" href="http://<iframe%20frameborder=%220%22%20height=%22410px%22%20src=%22http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672458455/send-a-swinger-to-memphis/widget/video.html%22%20width=%22480px%22></iframe>"><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>CLICK HERE TO DONATE!</b></span></a><br><br>
The campaign only goes until Jan 15th, so please get on board our blues train and HELP SEND A SWINGER TO MEMPHIS!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54672010-12-08T09:30:00-05:002017-02-01T14:05:58-05:00New video: a front row seat view of our set at the BMA's! By Bob Colby!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/qpPuCDdaMmw?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6">
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We love this video, sent to us by our friend <a target="_new" href="http://www.facebook.com/bob.colby">Bob Colby</a>. This is the Delta Swingers doing Virtual Booty Machine Blues live at the Boston Music Awards, 12/6/2010, with Peter Parcek sitting in!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54662010-12-07T07:55:00-05:002017-02-01T14:05:58-05:00Video: Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers at the Boston Music Awards!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/fCPWaPN1sEg?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6">
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We had a great time at the Boston Music Awards! We didn't win, the Blues Artist of the Year went to Johnny A. But we got to share the stage with Peter Parcek, Johnny A, and Dwight and Nicole as well as many others! It was a great time, thanks Boston Music Awards, and thank you all out there for your votes!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54652010-12-02T16:45:00-05:002017-01-11T08:36:01-05:00A big weekend: Saturday night – JP to MEMPHIS FUNDRAISER at the MIDWAY!!! Sunday BMA's!!!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/a237b5113a4068a30db3b523f3225131ac300cf2/large/MidwayJPMemphis.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="647" width="500" /><br><b>Saturday, December 4th</b> at <a target="_new" href="http://www.midwaycafe.com/"><b>the Midway Café</b></a> is our big hometown <b>JP to Memphis Fundraising Party</b>! It's going to be a ton of fun, and it will help us get to Memphis in February for the <a href="http://www.blues.org/ibc/#ref=ibc_index">International Blues Challenge</a>! And who knows, maybe you'll get lucky in the 50/50 raffle and come home with some cash! Also helping out the cause will be <a target="_new" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notch-Session-Ale/101377509902559?v=wall">Notch Beer</a>, a new beer company started by the folks who produced Tremont. Their new Notch Session Ale will debut at the Midway Saturday night, for only $4 – and they'll donate $1 of each sale to the Delta Swingers! Come on out and be benevolent by drinking beer!<br><br>
The show will feature not only the Delta Swingers (w/ special guest Jim Chilson from the <a target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/thetenfootpolecats">Ten Foot Polecats</a> sitting in!), but also <a target="_new" href="http://www.erinharpe.com">Lovewhip</a> (Erin and Jim's other band you've been hearing about!), plus Boston's dance rock purveyors <a target="_new" href="http://itsstreightangular.bandcamp.com/">Streight Angular</a>, all the way from NYC <a href="http://zavracky.com/">the Jake Zavracky</a>, the gender bending musical comedy of <a target="_new" href="http://www.zaydebuti.com/">Zayde Buti</a>, an Xmas set by <a target="_new" href="http://www.myspace.com/revoltah">Sean Revoltah</a>, go-go dancing, a late night DJ dance party, and more! <i>3496 Washington St. in JP, 21+, $10, 8pm-2am.</i><br><br><br><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>Sunday 12/5: The Boston Music Awards at the Liberty Hotel</b></span><br><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/f997f3b6cf46264829ff7954a0a50770d2b31622/original/BMA.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="192" width="200" />Thank you so much if you voted for us in the Boston Music Awards! We are so excited to walk down the red carpet and find out if we won at the BMA's at the <b>Liberty Hotel</b> this <b>Sunday, December 5th</b>! The Delta Swingers and I will be performing with the other blues nominees (the Peter Parcek 3, Dwight & Nicole and Johnny A) just after the awards ceremony at 8:45 on the blues stage on the 4th floor. There will be about 25 other bands and performers playing throughout the hotel that evening including Mystery Roar, the Debo Band, Jenny Dee and the Delinquents, Dom, Kingsley Flood, Bow Thayer and the Perfect Trainwreck, and many more. <i>The BMA's, at the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., Boston. $20.</i><br><br>
Get tickets:<br><a target="_new" href="http://www.bostonmusicawards2010.com/event-info"><b>Boston Music Awards Event Info & Tickets</b></a><br><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54022010-11-18T09:27:43-05:002021-12-22T06:55:01-05:00Vote for us in the BMA's!<a href="http://www.bostonmusicawards2010.com/vote" target="_new"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/f997f3b6cf46264829ff7954a0a50770d2b31622/original/BMA.jpg?1376658850" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="192" width="200" /></a><br><br>
We just got nominated for Best Blues Artist of the Year in the Boston Music Awards! Woo hoo we are super excited! You can help us by voting as soon and as often as you can here:<br><a href="http://www.bostonmusicawards2010.com/vote"><b>VOTE FOR ERIN HARPE & THE DELTA SWINGERS!</b></a><br>
Thanks! Vote, wish us luck, and pass it on!!<br><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54342010-11-07T08:45:00-05:002010-11-07T08:45:00-05:00Pics from James Cotton show at the Arlington Regent Theatre Friday<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5536883476738567041%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54492010-10-28T08:22:05-04:002017-02-01T14:05:55-05:00Boston Blues Challenge video!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/yFy574DwRy0?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6">
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We finally have the whole winning set uploaded as one video! This video is by Joe Marino, aka MoeJoe on Facebook. Thanks Joe!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54532010-10-27T04:06:32-04:002021-04-24T04:14:54-04:00Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers open for Cow Island Music recording artists the Stone River Boys!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/b29b1945bfd359281f63ff44d3bde413a074aa2a/original/stoneriverboysflier.jpg?1376658849" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="695" width="450" /><br>
From Austin, TX <a href="http://www.myspace.com/stoneriverboys"><b>the Stone River Boys</b></a> bring their country/roots/soul sound to <a href="http://www.johnnyds.com/" target="_new"><b>Johnny D's</b></a> on <b>Wednesday, October 27th</b>. Their fun, funky and soulful show is over the top, described as the love child of Waylon Jennings and Mable John, and they've even made up their own dance called ""The Struggle" which has to be seen to be believed!<br><br>
We go on at 8pm! 21+, $10. 17 Holland Street, Davis Square, Somerville MA. Right across the street from the Davis Square T stop!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54632010-10-19T11:35:28-04:002017-02-01T14:05:57-05:00Boston Blues Challenge Update... we're going to Memphis!WE DID IT! With your help, support and love we won the 2010 Boston Blues Challenge, and we are GOING TO MEMPHIS in February to represent Boston in the International Blues Challenge! We are so excited!! Beale Street here we come!<br><br>
Sunday night was the Finals, it was a really great show and all the bands were awesome. Thanks to all those who came out to the show to support, to all those who sent us love and luck, and to all the other bands who took part in this year's Challenge! We'd also like to congratulate the solo/duo winners - Cindy Daley and Satch Romano! We'll be seein' you guys in Memphis!<br><br>
Check out video of our winning set!<br><br>
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Part II featuring the Virtual Booty Machine Blues and the Stop & Listen Blues:<br><br><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/L99TsecZ5SQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6">
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Last night we competed in the Boston Blues Challenge, presented by the Boston Blues Society, and won our night! Congratulations to co-winner Drivin' Blind! And the other bands on the bill did a great job too: Kid Pinky, Barrett Anderson Band and the Lois Greco Band. Now we go on to the finals on Sunday October 17th at Johnny D's – and grand prize winner that night goes to the International Blues Challenge 2010 in Memphis!!<br><br>
Check out the video of one of the highlights of our (short, 20-minute) set last night! So many people were dancing by the end of our set, just like I told them to! Thanks to everyone who came out to support last night! Special thanks go out to the Blues Union dancers!!!<br><img src="//bandzoogle.com/common/FCKEditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/heart.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54602010-09-08T07:36:35-04:002010-09-08T07:36:35-04:00Tonight's show is featured in Cheap Thrills Boston!WED 9/8<br>
9pm to 11pm<br>
Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers<br>
at Milky Way Lounge/Bella Luna, 284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain (The Brewery Complex)<br>
FREE<br><br>
I'm sure my off-handed remark last month that the Delta Swingers' summer monthly residency should keep on trucking' -- so I'd like to take credit that the fantastic Erin Harpe will bring her newish electric blues outfit to the newish Milky Way for at least a few more months.<br><br>
Go on the 2nd Wednesday of the month to hear something akin to what the blues sounded like Muddy and his band plugged in, which sounds better than ever in these hands.<br><br><a href="http://cheapthrillsboston.blogspot.com/2010/09/wed-98-poetry-comedy-blues-rock.html"><i>-Cheap Thrills Boston</i></a><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54592010-09-05T10:04:22-04:002010-09-05T10:04:22-04:00Here's a live review from the Noise magazine!ERIN HARPE & THE DELTA SWINGERS<br>
American Legion Park, Georgetown, MA<br>
8/15/10<br><br>
Missy Erin Harpe done this here show by her lonesome many moons ago and I was rightly dumbfounded by the old musics she’d done recrated. Was she really birthed in the back of a Mississippi delta shack? Since then she be vibratin’ with the D-Swingin’ bass man Jim, Rosey suckin’ mouth harp, and keepin’ time Bob. It’s a perty day and the four of thems is loungin’ on the outdoor wooden shed, ’cept for Rosey who just gotsta stand. The mixin’ of the sounds through the e-lectronic speaker system is just ear pleasin’ as a whippoorwill, an’ I come to expect that from dear Henry (More Sound Company of Jaffrey, NH—he done asked fer that there plug). Missy Erin be firmly singin’ an’ twangin’ the ol’ style finger pickin’ her daddy done taught her. Her cowboy boots er bouncin’ and her polka dots dance with every breeze as the boys make rhythm to Memphis Mini’s “Be My Chauffeur.” The sexual finesse stays proper to this gatherin’ of child to granmammy. But I reckon Miss Erin could swell up a tidal wave if she beed desirin’. Keepin’ time Bob’s backgroun’ singin’ hits the head whether he be manly or pretty soundin’. Offstage Bob has a mind to humor me, sayin’ he plays in Likewhip—we’re not as good as Lovewhip. I be explainin’ Lovewhip is here Miss Erin and Mr. Jim’s e-lectronic booty boundin’ bumpin’ music band. The Delta Swinger gang snaps out a Lovewhip of “Vertual Booty Machine”—only they done bluesified it. Before “Fishin Blues” Erin claims she came to realize the song meanin’ was ’bout equal rights of each here sex to go fishin’, but never knowed what fishin’ was ’bout when her daddy done taught her the tune—remember she was still on his knee. I still recon it’s all too fishy for me to be figgerin’. I just like the dancin’ polka dots and the way the Swingers crank like my pappy’s pappy. Y’all come back now. (Timmy Max) <br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54582010-07-28T09:33:06-04:002017-02-01T14:05:56-05:00Pics from our show at the Milky Way 7/14!<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/unrulybadger/sets/72157624525057672/show/"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/8b7bc9a9f21d8ee2d82b723c0e620c95cfbd47d8/original/DeltaSwingersSarahSmith2.jpg?1376658846" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="334" width="500" /><br>
Click here to see the full Flickr slideshow!</a>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54572010-07-15T14:59:53-04:002022-05-26T22:33:45-04:00Video from our mini-tour!<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLIFpMxkbSQ"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/0e43b2283beffd356c3da72d0ecc61909adb8080/original/UticaDance.jpg?1376658846" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="307" width="500" /></a><br>
This is from our Utica Monday Nites performance in NY state. Here's what happened when some French exchange students showed up and got down to the delta blues! Pick Poor Robin Clean!<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLIFpMxkbSQ"><b>Click here to watch!</b></a><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54552010-06-22T19:07:05-04:002017-01-11T08:36:01-05:00Live at Rosy's Place 3-song download, pay-what-you-want!<a href="http://erinharpe.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-rosys-place-2"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/7788cb7df9134f3f8b3570feb7d8da0f9fc18abd/original/DeltaSwingersLiveatRosys.jpg?1376658846" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="286" width="300" /></a><br><br>
Download three songs recorded live at Rosy's Place! Featuring Erin on guitar and vocals, Jim Countryman on bass, Bob Nisi on drums and backing and harmony vocals, and featuring Richard "Rosy" Rosenblatt on harmonica! It includes the Bye Bye Blues, Big Road Blues and Pick Poor Robin Clean. The recording is pay-what-you-want (including $0, a.k.a. FREE!), and all proceeds go toward recording our new Delta Swingers record!<br><br><a href="http://erinharpe.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-rosys-place-2"><b>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!</b></a><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54542010-06-22T10:23:49-04:002010-06-22T10:23:49-04:00Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers video featured on The Killing Floor!Check us out! We were featured on the blog <a href="http://thekillingfloor.typepad.com/the-killing-floor-notes-from-the-editor-of-the-boston-blues-society/moejoe-monday/">The Killing Floor: Notes from the Editor of the Boston Blues Society</a>! There's a pic and live video of Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers playing the Future Blues at Smoken' Joes recently (video by MoeJoe).<br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54522010-05-17T05:40:00-04:002010-05-17T05:40:00-04:00Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers in the Weekly Dig!“Fans of sexy disco will immediately recognize Erin Harpe as the boot-stompin' frontlady for the pumpin' JP electro group Lovewhip... so it might come as a bit of a shock to learn this Disco Terror not only has a Chesapeake Bay blues background, but is also revered as an accomplished contemporary blues guitarist. We're talking about the good kind of shock, though—like finding out your chair vibrates. This blues chanteuse breathes new, whiskey-soaked life into the likes of Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe, with a sound that's uniquely Charles River Delta.”<br><br><a href="http://www.weeklydig.com/arts-entertainment/calendar/201005/dig-051210-051710">From DIG THIS 05.12.10-05.17.10</a><br><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54512010-05-17T05:40:00-04:002017-02-01T14:05:55-05:00Video from Smoken' Joes - Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/OxVQPfhCQt0&hl=en_US&fs=1&">
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Erin Harpe, guitar and vocals, Jim Countryman on bass and Bob Nisi on drums, playing the Mississippi Delta Blues.<br><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/erinharpeblues?ref=ts#!/video/video.php?v=1244308543937&ref=mf"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/13718ce4385eca70a1546d02af9a24bb8c977511/original/Picture-2.png?1376658846" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="226" width="400" /></a><br type="_moz"><br>
Click on the screen to watch!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54402010-03-11T09:37:40-05:002017-01-11T08:36:00-05:00Video from my show opening for T-Model Ford!Video of the Mississippi Delta Blues, Erin Harpe guitar and vocals and Jim Countryman on bass. Click the screen to watch!<br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/imojoimojo?v=app_2392950137#!/video/video.php?v=1238640402237&ref=mf"><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/74bfa8f8340f7a04e0008f39cd5ac6229361783e/original/Picture-1.png?1376658846" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="226" width="400" /></a><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54422010-03-11T08:55:00-05:002010-03-11T08:55:00-05:00Erin Harpe delta blues at SXSW!I'm playing 7 shows next week in Austin! Jim Countryman will be accompanying me on bass! More info on my <a href="./shows.cfm">shows</a> page!<br><br>
Tuesday, March 16 - <b>Evangeline Cafe</b> (8pm)<br>
Wednesday, March 17 - <b>Traveling Barn Dance @ Taco Xpress</b> (1:45pm)<br>
Thursday, March 18 - <b>Amelia's Retro Vogue</b> (2:30pm)<br>
Thursday, March 18 - <b>G & S Lounge</b> (6:30pm)<br>
Friday, March 19 - <b>Amelia's Retro Vogue</b> (11:30am)<br>
Sunday, March 21 - <b>LeeAnn's Full Moon Barn Dance</b> (3:00pm)<br>
Sunday, March 21 - <b>3rd Coast Music Presents: Not-SXSW Roots and Americana Festival @ OPAL DIVINE'S PENN FIELD</b> (5pm)<br><br><a target="_new" href="http://www.countryrootsmusic.com/3rdcm/">Full Not-SXSW Schedule here!</a><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54392010-02-23T05:50:00-05:002020-09-23T05:55:09-04:00This Thursday: Great show with the legendary T-Model Ford!Boston Blues Society presents, in conjunction with Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment and F-Nice Records, <b>Erin Harpe blues duo</b> opening for <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tmodelford"><b>T-Model Ford</b></a> and my good friends, delta blues rockers the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thetenfootpolecats"><b>Ten Foot Polecats</b></a>, at <a href="http://www.paslounge.com/"><b>PA's Lounge</b></a> in Somerville on <b>Thursday, February 25th</b>!!! Doors open at 8pm.<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/b780bf76e3fb43b37cc5e87af50f88f01ef8a300/original/tmodel.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="200" width="200" /><br><br><b>Thursday Febrary 25th</b><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tmodelford">T-MODEL FORD</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thetenfootpolecats">TEN FOOT POLECATS</a>, and ERIN HARPE<br>
at <a href="http://www.paslounge.com/"><b>PA's Lounge</b></a><br>
345 Somerville Ave - Somerville MA<br>
$10 tickets, 21+, 8pm doors<br><br>
T-MODEL FORD comes to the Boston area with Marty Reinsel, from the Seattle based band Gravelroad, on drums.<br><br>
Opening the show is Massachusetts' own purveyors of North Mississippi Hill Country Blues & Punk Blues - The Ten Foot Polecats.<br><br>
A little about James T-Model Ford:<br><br>
T-Model's credentials are impeccable; if anything he's over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. He was plowing a field behind a mule on his family's farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill. He excelled and was later recruited by a foreman from a bigger lumber company in the Delta, near Greenville, and eventually got promoted to truck driver.<br><br>
Between that and working in a log camp T-Model was sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder. He lucked out and was released after serving two. He says, grinning, "I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough- dangerous man." When asked how many times he'd been to jail, T-Model responded, "I don't know. Every Saturday night there for awhile."<br><br>
As disheartening as this is, it's also a refreshing reminder of how ridiculous the present image of a bluesman is.<br><br>
It's Jack Daniel Time!<br>
"T-Model Ford is going to remember you sorry fuckers how it's done"<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54372010-02-11T06:49:15-05:002021-06-24T02:13:15-04:00It's Mardi Gras Time at TT's, Central Square, Cambridge! <table width="500" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"><tbody><tr>
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<p>Let the good times roll this <strong>Saturday, February 13th</strong> is <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=244499538547&ref=mf"><strong>Wolf's 17th Annual Mardi Gras Ball</strong></a> at <strong>T.T. the Bear's</strong>! Get ready for non-stop music, dancing and burlesque as the star-studded <strong>Vudu Krewe All Star Mardi Gras Band</strong> bring the flavor of New Orleans, joined by many of Boston's most illustrious guest vocalists including Dennis Brennan, Holly Brewer, Joey Pesce, Linda Viens, Hope Roth, Emily Grogan, Boston Babydolls and more. A Benefit for the <a href="http://www.neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/">New Orleans Musicians Clinic</a>, this show should be tons of crazy fun all night long! It usually sells out so you can <em>buy tickets now at the link below</em>.</p>
<p>The evening starts with a set by my new group <strong>Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers</strong>!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Saturday, February 13<br></strong><strong><a href="http://www.ttthebears.com/">T.T. The Bear's Place</a></strong><br>
10 Brookline Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
9pm<br><a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=991515"><strong>BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I'll be playing short blues sets throughout the evening along with Jim Countryman of the Delta Swingers/Lovewhip on bass. We'll also be making some (hilarious, I'm sure) cameos in the show!!!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Starring:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ATOMIC TRASH!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Musical guest:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Blues siren <strong>Erin Harpe</strong><br>
with special guest <br><strong>Jim Countryman</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Also Starring:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Michelle Estelle</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ludella Hahn</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Grace Glamour</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Adora La Skeletora <br>
& Jonny Bangs</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Sapphire Rain</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Kate Tush</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Intro To Anatomy</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ginger B. Goode</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Miss Madison West</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Dirty Dishes</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Lord Byron</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Shotsi Taboo</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Precious</p>
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Sunday, February 14th</strong><br><strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/genosrockclub" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 153) ! important;" target="_blank">Geno's Rock Club</a></strong><br>
625 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101<br>
(207) 221-2382<br>
8pm, 21+</p>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54352010-02-11T06:45:57-05:002010-02-11T06:45:57-05:00Help raise money for South by Southwest 2010!<p style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: left;">I've been asked to play "NotSXSW" again this year, which is an acoustic and roots music festival that takes place in Austin TX the same week as SXSW! I'm still saving money for the plane tickets, and I'd love your help with fundraising! Buying a CD, download or T-shirt would help tons!<br><br><a href="http://www.erinharpe.com/bluesstore.cfm"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 153) ! important;"><strong>HELP ME GO TO SXSW IN AUSTIN!</strong></span></a></p>
<p style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-align: left;">Thanks!<br>
xoxo,<br>
Erin</p>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54312009-12-02T12:05:00-05:002009-12-02T12:05:00-05:00This Saturday... Apres ski show at Grizzly's, Stratton Mountain!This Saturday afternoon I'll be playing a show with my new band, <b>the Delta Swingers</b> at <b>Stratton Mountain, Vermont</b>! The band will feature backing me up: Jim Countryman on bass, Sam Marshall on mandolin and Ryan Dryburgh on drums! This show is free and all ages, at <b>Grizzly's</b> bar/restaurant on the mountain!<br><br><b>Saturday, December 5th<br>
@ <a href="http://www.stratton.com/village/apres-evening/grizzlys.htm">Grizzly's</a> at Stratton Mountain</b><br>
Stratton, VT<br>
3:30-6:30pm<br>
Age Limit: All Ages <br>
Tickets: FREE!<br>
Details: All ages show from 3:30-6:30pm. Two sets of blues by Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers! <br><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54332009-10-28T08:40:00-04:002017-01-11T08:36:00-05:00Come to my Halloween party this Saturday at the Rosebud Diner!<p>Trick or Treat!?!</p>
<p>I have a Halloween party coming up, Americana-style, this <strong>Saturday Oct. 31st </strong>-- with Pete Weiss & the Weisstronauts! It's at the <strong><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~rosebuddiner/">Rosebud Diner</a></strong> in Davis Square, Somerville. Party starts at 9pm, my set is from 10-11pm, with special guest Jim Countryman on bass! Feel free to wear a costume -- we'll be dressed up, see the poster below for a hint about our costumes -- it's on Halloween night! $5, 21+.</p>
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<p><b>Saturday October 31st<br>
at </b><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~rosebuddiner/"><b>the Rosebud Diner</b></a><br>
381 Summer St. (entrance to the right/back room)<br>
Davis Square (right on the Red Line!)<br>
Somerville, MA 02144<br>
(617) 666-6015<br>
$5, 21+</p>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54322009-10-12T15:20:00-04:002017-01-11T08:35:59-05:00Boston shows this week, Halloween in Somerville... and other news!<p>Happy Fall and happy October everyone! As the tempurature gets chilly and the things start to get spooky, I have some great local shows coming up! Come out and get cozy with a nice Octoberfest and some downhome blues! It'll cure what ails ya!!!</p>
<br><hr><br><p>First off, this <strong>Tuesday Oct. 13th</strong> I'm doing an early set (I go on at 9pm!) at the <strong>Lizard Lounge</strong> in Cambridge. Join us for a night of female blues singers and rock 'n roll! I'll open the show with a set of acoustic delta blues! Followed by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/heymamamusic">Hey Mama</a> featuring Avi & Celia.</p>
<p>"Hey Mama is stoking the rock & roll fire for a new generation." <em>-Brendan Hogan, host of Blues on WGBH</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuesday, October 13th <br>
@ <a href="http://www.lizardloungeclub.com/">the Lizard Lounge</a></strong><br>
1667 Mass Ave., Cambrigdge, MA <strong>> <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84947">BUY TICKETS</a></strong> ($5 advance/$7 at door)</p>
<br><hr><br><p>Then <strong>next Sunday</strong> I'm back at the one of my favorite places - <strong>Highland Kitchen</strong> in Somerville! This restaurant/bar has a great atmosphere, great food, and all kinds of beer and other drinks on the menu! I start at 10pm and play two sets. FREE admission! 21+.</p>
<p><strong>Sunday, October 18th<br>
@ <a href="http://www.highlandkitchen.com/">Highland Kitchen</a></strong><br>
150 Highland Ave., Somerville</p>
<br><hr><br><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lovewhip.net/loveelectric.cfm"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><img src="//i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/empresserin/LoveElectricMyspaceBanner-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="166" width="400" /></strong></span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>PRE-SALES have started for the new CD LOVE ELECTRIC from my band, Lovewhip!</strong></span></p>
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<p>I'm so excited about the new Lovewhip album coming out November 17th!!! We are now offering special pre-sales of the album, available as a CD, or as a limited edition Poster or T-shirt with album download card. Pre-orders come with a special Love Electric Sticker and Square Album-Cover Button. You get the booty one week before the official release date, and we'll sign your CD and/or Poster!<br><br>
You have to pre-order to get the extras! Check out our great prices! And thanks for your support!<br><br><a href="http://www.lovewhip.net/loveelectric.cfm"><strong>Click here to see all the details!</strong></a></p>
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<p><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Halloween Show! </strong></span></span></em></p>
<p>I'm playing my first Satuday night blues show in a long while, and it's on Halloween night!!! Stop by after trick-or-treating for some wicked Halloween blues. I play one set at 10pm followed by Pete Weiss and <a href="http://www.weisstronauts.com/">The Weisstronauts</a>! <strong>The Rosebud Diner</strong> is right in Davis Square, on the Red Line! Costumes?? You bet!! Admission: $5, 21+.<br>
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<p><strong>Saturday, October 31st<br>
@ <a href="http://www.rosebuddiner.com/">the Rosebud Diner</a></strong><br>
381 Summer St, Somerville, MA</p>
<p>"If there’s such a thing as a forward-thinking surf band, The Weisstronauts are it. The Weisstronauts combine vintage surf and Nashville chicken-pickin’ with cartoon zaniness and spaghetti Western intrigue..." -Jack Silverman, <em>Nashville Scene</em></p>
<br><hr><br><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>UPCOMING THANKSGIVING SHOWS in Maryland:</strong></span></p>
<p>I'm playing two shows in Annapolis the weekends before and after Thanksgiving!! Here is a preview, more details to come!</p>
<p><strong>Sunday, Nov. 22nd</strong> I'll be a part of <strong>"Down Home, Back Porch Blues,”</strong> sponsored by <strong>The Friends of St. John's College</strong>. This show will feature many greats of the Maryland/DC blues community. There will be a reception to meet the musicians following the performance. This is an afternoon, all ages show, starting at 2pm.</p>
<p><strong>Sunday, November 22nd<br>
Saint John's College</strong><br>
Francis Scott Key Hall, College Avenue, Annapolis, MD</p>
<p><strong>> <a href="https://st-john-s-college1.ticketleap.com/buy-tickets/blues/down-home-back-porch-blues-concert/annapolis/995750CB-8808-4DEA-AE8C-395D7F3A936">BUY TICKETS</a></strong> (Tickets are $15)</p>
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<p>It's becoming an annual Thanksgiving tradition for my dad and I and friends to put on a special holiday blues show at 49 West in Annapolis. There is a great atmosphere, you can have dinner & drinks and watch the show! Be sure to make a reservation if you plan to come, this is a small room and always sells out! </p>
<p><strong>Friday, November <br><a href="http://www.49westcoffeehouse.com/">49 West Coffehouse & Winebar</a></strong><br>
49 West St., Annapolis, MD<br>
Reservations: 410-626-9796</p>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54302009-08-05T07:36:36-04:002022-03-16T08:22:32-04:00Mid-Summer Blues News!Hi Blues Fans!<br><br>
Summer finally arrived here in New England on August 1st and I have been touring all around New England and enjoying seeing everyone at my solo shows and at the shows with my dance band Lovewhip. I had a great time at the Provincetown Rocks music festival last weekend. Check out my slideshow below of some cool pics of me playing inside the venerable fishermans bar the Old Colony, and outside behind the OC on the beach.There was a fun blog crew there from <a href="http://playgroundboston.com/">Playground Boston.com</a>. They liked my acoustic delta blues so much that they made me the featured artist on their website this week. Click the link and you can hear my song Bye Bye Blues, accompanied by my dad <a href="http://www.stellaguitars.com">Neil Harpe</a>.<br><br>
I have two upcoming gigs where I play the whole night. Up first is this Friday, August 7, at the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tikihideaway">Tiki Hideaway</a> in the Howard Johnson's behind Fenway Park. This show is FREE and is 18+. I play two sets starting at 9:30pm. The address is 1271 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02215, right behind Fenway Park. The Sox are out of town so there will be plenty of parking.<br><br>
My next local Boston gig is Sunday August 16th at the awesome cajun/dixie mishmash <a href="http://www.myspace.com/highlandkitchen">Highland Kitchen</a>. Mark the chef/owner used to be the head chef at the Green St. Grill back in the infamous days of Central Square in Cambridge. He makes out of this world food, lots of fresh seafood with a cajun twist. Vice Versatile from the comedy/musical performance troupe Varietae is a cocktail server there in his free time when he isn't on the planet HIHOWOYA. This show will be FREE! and I play two sets starting at 10pm. The Highland Kitchen is located at 150 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA. Come early for dinner and stay late for some acoustic delta blues!<br><br>
There are some very inexpensive summer specials happening at my <a href="./bluesstore.cfm">Blues Store</a>. Both Blues Roots and Delta Blues Duets plus a T-shirt for only $22. Both Cd's for only $15. One T-shirt and one cd for $15. <a href="./bluesstore.cfm">Check it out!</a><br><br>
Hope to see you at a show before the summer is over!<br><br>
xoxo,<br><br>
Erin<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54292009-08-05T06:53:44-04:002017-01-11T08:35:59-05:00Featured song on Playground Boston blog!My track "Bye Bye Blues" from Delta Blues Duets is the track of the week at this great Boston music blog, check it out!<br><a href="http://playgroundboston.com/2009/08/03/pgb-track-of-the-week-11-erin-and-neil-harpe-bye-bye-blues/"><br><img src="//hotlink.myspacecdn.com/images02/100/c9c9415390344d72b87effe5dc2a1c8d/m.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></a><br>
Click on the icon to view the post!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54282009-08-03T13:01:36-04:002009-08-03T13:01:36-04:00Pics and Vids from the Provincetown Music Fest July 2009!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5365851389905552305%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCNr0m-nguITBMw%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54272009-07-15T11:42:42-04:002017-02-01T14:05:51-05:00 Summertime Bluesletter, gigs in Portland, Boston, Cape CodSummertime blues...<br><br>
There's nothing better than sitting out on my back porch on a sunny afternoon, playing some blues on my trusty old Gibson guitar! This has been a beautiful summer for that lately, not too hot, just perfect (at least up here in New England)! I'll be bringing this summery atmosphere with me this week for some upcoming shows around Boston and Portland (and next week down on the Cape in P-town)! And since I'm playing that 1930's recession-era blues, the next two shows I have coming up are fittingly recession-era priced: FREE!<br><br>
Hope to see you this Friday in Portland, ME or this Sunday in Somerville, MA! Check out the links below to some great videos that were shot on my recent Maryland/DC tour featuring Phil Wiggins on harmonica, my dad Neil Harpe on guitar, and Eleanor Ellis on vocals and guitar.<br><br><br>
Th. July 16, 2009<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
at the Port City Music Hall Front Lounge<br>
504 Congress Street<br>
Portland, ME 04101<br><a href="http://www.portcitymusichall.com">www.portcitymusichall.com</a><br>
FREE!!!<br>
21+<br>
two sets starting at 9pm<br><br><br>
Sun. July 19, 2009<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
at the Highland Kitchen<br>
150 Highland Ave<br>
Somerville, MA 02143<br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/highlandkitchen">www.myspace.com/highlandkitchen</a><br>
FREE!!<br>
21+<br>
Two sets starting at 10pm<br><br><br>
Sat. July 25, 2009<br>
P-Town Rocks: The Music Festival<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
at the Old Colony Tap<br>
323 Commercial St<br>
Provincetown. Cape Cod, MA<br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/provincetownrocks">www.myspace.com/provincetownrocks</a><br>
21+<br>
$25 day pass hit the link above for tix<br>
Erin plays around 9:15<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/fef4bceb93f01218ccfe0b82b9c7ede3aa334c2c/original/09.OLDCOLONYTAP.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="606" width="450" /><br><br><br><br><br>
Check out these great videos!<br><br>
Mississippi Delta Blues featuring Erin Harpe, Neil Harpe, and Phil Wiggins:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P87eKamPGgo">www.youtube.com/watch</a><br><br>
Chaueffer Blues featuring Erin Harpe, Eleanor Ellis, and Phil Wiggins:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEh056EvZg">www.youtube.com/watch</a><br><br><br>
There are still great specials at my store all summer long. Discounted T-shirts and cd's. Just go to the Blues Store on my website:<br><br><a href="./bluesstore.cfm">www.erinharpe.com/bluesstore</a><br><br><br><br><br>
See you at a show. Don't let the summertime blues get you down!<br><br>
XOXO,<br><br>
Erin<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54262009-07-15T08:50:21-04:002009-07-15T08:50:21-04:00I am a featured artist on Musictogousa Songwriter's Network!<br type="_moz"><p></p><p></p><p><b>
Musictogousa Songwriter's Network is now playing Blues Roots and Delta Blues Duets</b>
<a href="http://www.musictogousa.com/">*Tune In here*</a><b>Live Show Saturdays 6P.M to 11P.M EST.
<br>Make<a href="mailto:neonproductions@sbcglobal.net">Bert</a> your requests online or stop into the chat room on Sat nights and request
Come check out my songs on <a href="http://www.musictogousa.com">Musictogousa.com </a></b></p>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54252009-07-07T09:08:19-04:002017-02-01T14:05:51-05:00Check out these very recent and great live vids!Featuring myself, Eleanor Ellis, my dad Neil Harpe, and blues harp great Phil Wigginns!<br><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/_OEh056EvZg&hl=en&fs=1">
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xoxo,<br>
Erin<br><br><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5350938633819368753%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCNDor9GA5dj-_AE%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" width="400" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54212009-06-09T09:04:30-04:002009-06-09T09:04:30-04:00Upcoming shows June 19-20 in Annapolis MD and Arlington VA with my dad!On June 19th and 20th I'll be down in my old stomping grounds, where I grew up, playing some shows with my dad! The first show is Friday June, 19th in Annapolis and the second is an outdoor BBQ fundraiser for MS in Arlington VA!<br><br><b>Friday, June 19th<br><a href="http://www.49westcoffeehouse.com/">49 WEST COFFEHOUSE/WINEBAR</a></b><br>
49 West St. | Annapolis, MD<br>
$10 admission, 8-11pm<br>
The also have great food! So come early for dinner!!!<br><br>
– featuring –<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
Neil Harpe<br>
Eleanor Ellis<br><hr><br><br><b>Saturday, June 20<br><a href="http://msisbs.wordpress.com/events/">BACKYARD BLUES BBQ AND FUNDRAISER</a></b><br>
3733 S. 13th St. | Arlington, VA<br>
Come out for a day of great food and music from the legendary Rick Franklin and Friends for a backyard blues jam. All proceeds from the event will go towards Capital Challenge Walk MS (they are trying to raise $6,000!). It’ll be a finger-licking, toe-tapping good time! For a good cause!<br><br>
Tickets: <a href="http://msisbs.wordpress.com/buy-tickets/">Buy Online Now</a><br><br>
– featuring –<br>
Franklin, Harpe and Usilton<br>
Phil Wiggins<br>
BluesWorks (Judy Luis-Watson, Paul Watson, Mark Puryear and Jaamin’ Tempo)<br>
Rick Franklin and His Delta Blues Boys (Rick Franklin, Rick Usilton and Tom Cox)<br>
Eleanor Ellis<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
More artists to be announced!<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54232009-05-28T12:40:00-04:002017-01-11T08:35:59-05:00Next Thursday FREE show at the new House of Blues Restaurant!This is exciting news, everybody! I've been asked to play at the brand-new <a href="http://www.houseofblues.com/venues/clubvenues/boston/dining.php"><b>House of Blues</b></a> Restaurant in Boston! The show is FREE, I play two sets, and you can enjoy the delicious soul food on the menu while you watch or before the show... If at least 30 people come, they will ask me back. Please come down! 9:30pm-12am. Did I mention it's FREE!?! And of coarse I'd love to see you...<br><br><img src="//i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/empresserin/EHhobposterWEB.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="518" width="400" /><br><br>
15 Lansdowne Street<br>
Boston, MA 02215<br>
(888) 693-2583 (BLUE)<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54222009-05-06T08:40:13-04:002022-01-07T00:17:10-05:00"Provincetown Rocks!" Music Festival - July 22-26th!!!I have exciting news, music fans! I'm going to be a part of the 1st Annual Provincetown Rocks! Music Festival, featuring some of the most amazing bands from the Boston area and beyond! Go <a href="http://www.myspace.com/provincetownrocks">here</a> for more info on bands, etc. It's going to be a great time, a full 5 days worth of music, burlesque and alternative comedy, all in the sunny, beautiful, beachy and sexy surroundings of Provincetown!<br><br>
My set will be at the historic Old Colony on Saturday 7/25 at 8:30pm! Lovewhip is also playing twice: at Vixen on Thursday 7/23 at 4:45pm and at Good Times on Friday 7/24 at 9:45pm! <br><br><span style="font-size: larger;"><b>So, book your music vacation now!!!</b></span><br><br><b> Buying passes/tickets:</b><br>
You can <a href="http://www.websitetickets.com/undergroundcontrol/catalog?category=tickets">buy tickets</a> to individual shows, or you can buy day passes or full festival passes. If you're buying any kind of pass, you can make sure we get part of the proceeds by sending an email with ‘BONUS’ in the subject field, and ‘ERIN HARPE’ in the body, to <a href="mailto:ptown@undergroundcontrol.com">ptown@undergroundcontrol.com</a>. <br><br><a href="http://www.websitetickets.com/undergroundcontrol/catalog?category=tickets"><img src="//c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/112/l_145e53a938bb448e81a5d3ace8b42baf.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="266" width="400" /></a> <br>
Hope to see you all in P-town!!!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54202009-04-20T06:34:54-04:002009-04-20T06:34:54-04:00Pics from last night at the Highland Kitchen!<br type="_moz"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5326795659425880977%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54102009-04-15T11:00:00-04:002017-01-11T08:35:58-05:00This Sunday night join me in Somerville!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/ad84f586de588bc254acbb4c2fcae2cb702e4dec/medium/ErinPolkaDot.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="225" width="300" /><br>
This Sunday night at the Highland Kitchen in Somerville MA I'll be playing two sets of solo acoustic delta blues! Please come by, sample something from their great menu, and have a few drinks witih me! It's FREE!!! And Monday's a holiday (at least here in MA -- Patriot's Day!).<br><br><b>Sunday April 19th, 2009<br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/highlandkitchen">The Highland Kitchen</a></b><br>
150 Highland Avenue<br>
Somerville MA<br>
(617) 625-1131<br>
FREE!!! 21+<br>
10pmErin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54192009-03-24T18:50:00-04:002021-01-27T06:28:52-05:00SXSW Tour Blog #3!<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="267" width="400">
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Whew! South by Southwest is over already, what a whirlwind! The nicest part about Austin is the warmth of the sun penetrating you all the way to your heart. You can tell that it affects the way people act and feel. People are very warm, friendly and open to every kind of music, in fact they pride themselves in the diversity of music and art that is everywhere. I met so many great people in Austin, I'm already looking forward to my next visit!<br><br>
Well here's the rest of what I did in Austin. Friday afternoon I played a set at the legendary <a href="http://antonesrecordshop.homestead.com/">Antone's Records</a>, right near the University of Texas. This record store has been around for about 30 years, and was opened by the original owner of <a href="http://www.antones.net">Antone's Nightclub</a>. He opened it right across from the club, which has relocated to 6th Street now (the first club to open on the famous street), but the record store has stayed in it's original location. It's now under new ownership by a group of record and music lovers, including Forest, who was there during my show. Check out the picture Jim took of the cool store front! BTW all the photos in my blog were taken by Jim Countryman.<br><br>
My second show for the day, which turned out to be our entertainment for the evening as well, was <a href="http://www.ameliasretrovogue.com/">Amelia's Retro</a>. Amelia's is a great second hand boutique in South Austin with all sorts of vintage clothing, furniture, and more, with a lovely garden behind it with little winding paths through bamboo forests – which is actually part of the store. So you're wandering through and you'll come upon some kind of cool treasure. The garden is shared with another store, which is called, fittingly, Happiness.<br><br>
Jim got some good pics of my set, some taken through some of the tropical foliage that's growing in the garden. After my set, we stuck around to see some really cool bands: The Shakeltons and Sumner Erickson and the Texmatics.<br><br>
The <a href="http://www.theshackeltons.com/main/">Shakeltons</a> (pronounced like shackle-tons but with the word "shake" appropriately hidden inside) are a raucous five-piece from southwestern PA that have been getting a lot of great press lately... just check out the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theshackeltons">Shakeltons myspace</a>. They put on a great show, in which they transform the stage into a forest by hanging branches all over it (they said it's much more effective in a club where the stage itself isn't already like a forest). The lead singer's mic stand is so tall it's ready for a giant, but then he comes up and gets up on a chair, and he is rocking the chair and the mic. Unfortunately it's an old chair (the same chair I sat in for my set), and it disintegrates right from under him. A second chair is offered by an audience member (this one a beautiful antique one from the store – which manages to survive the whole set). This was a very fun band to see live.<br><br>
Next up is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sumnererickson">Sumner Erickson</a> and his <a href="http://www.myspace.com/texcentrics">Texcentrics</a>. They play "only Texas music", which I think means music written by Texans. While wandering around the garden earlier I'd met an older lady named Evelyn. It turns out she is the mom of <a href="http://www.rokyerickson.net/">Roky Erickson</a> of the influential psychedelic rock band <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Floor_Elevators">the 13th Floor Elevators</a> (Sumner's brother). Sumner himself is also a world-class tuba player! Evelyn and Sumner are both in the movie <a href="http://www.rokyerickson.net/docu.html">"You're gonna miss me,"</a> a movie about Roky Erickson and a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion. Evelyn is now 85 years old, and still does yoga everyday (in fact, she stands on her head everyday!). The Texcentrics were great, and Evelyn is an inspiration, and was dancing with everybody absolutely all night!<br><br>
The party was over after midnight, so we went to <a href="http://www.cafemagnolia.com/">Magnolia's</a>, a really funky 24-hour diner on S. Congress St. in South Austin with an alcohol license and an outdoor patio. They also have the best salsa around, and that is saying a lot for Texas! Maybe it's just because I was so hungry at that point...<br><br><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5316065221883155601%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267"></embed><br>
Saturday I played again at the <a href="http://www.evangelinecafe.com">Evangeline Cafe</a>. It was a beautiful afternoon once again and I played two sets. Sumner Erickson dropped by, and we got to hang out a bit. Curtis Clark, the owner of the Evangeline and the person who first got me to come down and play blues in Austin, was also there. It was a really fun afternoon. Thanks, Curtis, for another really great time, not to mention yummy Cajun food! (Also thanks to that guy who tipped me $50!) <br><br>
Sunday morning we slept in, my first day without a gig since Monday. Tried to go to our favorite breakfast place again, but there was a huge line out the door, so we tried an Asian place called Veggie Heaven. (I love how things in Austin are called things like Heaven and Happiness!) I would recommend it! They have things like tofu balls, veggie beef, ham, you name it. They also don't just serve Asian, they have fajitas and wraps too. Even soy Thai iced coffee and tea! I wish they had a website, but if you're in Austin look for it right near the University of Texas on Guadalupe.<br><br>
That afternoon, we went to local blues legend and “Queen of South Austin” <a href="http://www.leeannatherton.com/">Leeann Atherton's</a> Full Moon Barn dance. Too bad they don't have parties like this in Boston :( Leeann has built a big stage in her back yard, and it's a huge yard with plenty of room for people. It's a potluck, so the entry fee is cheaper if you bring food, and it's byob. We ran into Sumner again, and we got their just in time to see a set by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/katzenjammerne">Katzenjammer</a>(!) (who played before me earlier in the week at Maria's [btw Maria was there too]). Anyway, Jim got some great photos, and I got a video of their last, rousing song. Great stuff!!! See for yourself:<br><br><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/ye6BWVtWglU&hl=en&fs=1">
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That's about it, I can't wait to visit Austin and all my new friends soon!!! Thanks for reading!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54182009-03-20T09:35:00-04:002009-03-20T09:35:00-04:00SXSW Report #2!<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="267" width="400">
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Thursday has been the most fun day yet, here in Austin. Breakfast at the <a href="http://www.bouldincreek.com/">Bouldin Creek Cafe</a>, then took a walk around South Austin. It's really beautiful here, but the heat does get to you after awhile, and it's not even "summer" yet here! We passed by a club with a huge country festival going on. Lots of cowboy hats and lots of pedal steel guitar and dancing! In the afternoon, I played a set at the G&S Lounge, after which I got to see a set by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/brennenleigh">Brennen Leigh</a> and her band (who I met last year and this at the <a href="http://www.evangelinecafe.com/">Evangeline Cafe</a>). Great set!<br><br>
Next I was off to <a href="http://www.opaldivines.com/pennfield/">Opal Divine's</a> for John Conquest's (of <a href="http://www.countryrootsmusic.com/3rdcm/">3rd Coast Music</a>) NotSXSW Festival, which is a festival based around roots music, Americana and country music on a huge beautiful outdoor deck. Jim took a whole bunch of pics. We just missed Boston-based Eilen Jewell's set, and we say hi to our Boston friends. Johnny Sciascia, who used to jam with me at the Midway, is her bass player, Jason Beek (WMBR DJ, American Primitive show) is on drums. Also Somerville-based country guitar player extraordinaire, Jerry Miller is on a beautiful Gretch guitar. We go to see a set by them later back at the G&S Lounge.<br><br>
Right before me at Opal Divine's we get to catch a set by <a href="http://www.jamesslimhand.com/main.php">James Hand</a>, a local country music legend in Texas. His set is amazing, I love the way he shakes his hips while he plays guitar. It was explained to me later by Jerry Miller (who is originally from Nashville) that that's the way the audience should dance to this music. Check out the pics we took together after his set! I was also interviewed for <a href="http://kmud.org">KMUD</a> in Garberville, Northern California by Honkytonk Bill! Check out his show "Lonestar State of Mind!<br><br>
We went back to the Bouldin Creek Cafe for dinner, we took a couple of pics of us waiting for our food with some Lone Star beer, which is everywhere in Texas! Good stuff.<br><br>
Then we caught up with the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/eilenjewell">Eilen Jewell Band</a> back at the G&S Lounge. They lots of fun, and Eilen has a beautiful voice. They did everything from country to blues to spirituals. Their tour started in Maryland, went to St. Louis, and next they are off to New Orleans before driving back to Boston.<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54152009-03-19T10:10:00-04:002009-03-19T10:10:00-04:00SXSW Report #1!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5314961477651853201%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br><br>
I'm having a blast here in Austin so far! It's been in the 80's, and I've been having some amazing shows and seeing some great music. Tuesday night I spent my St. Patty's Day playing at my favorite cajun restaurant, the Evangeline Cafe. Some great bands played before me, Brennen Leigh and her band, and a great blues duo <span class="style34">Kevin Gallaugher and Greg Anderson. The food at this place is amazing!!!<br><br>
Wednesday we wandered around the festival, saw some bands, and then spent the afternoon at Maria's Taco Xpress, where my second gig would be as part of LeeAnn Atherton's Traveling Barn Dance Women's review. This funky taco joint had an outdoor stage, and the weather was great. I took some pics of the other bands that played: LeeAnn Atherton's blues band (what a voice!), Katzenjammer</span><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"> - all-girl punky viking gypsy bluegrass from Norway, and Baskery</span><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"> - anther all-girl band - 3 sisters from Sweden playing edgy Americana.<br></span><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54172009-03-10T19:15:00-04:002017-01-11T08:35:58-05:00SXSW is coming up!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/434761900d8b7ef92539b8677e28771eb1b4b744/large/ErinHarpeSXSW09eflier.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="415" width="400" /><br><br>
I'm getting prepared to go out to Austin, TX next week for SXSW... have to make sure I pack everything! Guitar, check, sunscreen, check!!! I'm getting excited to see some some of the friends I met last year, including John Conquest from <a href="http://www.countryrootsmusic.com/3rdcm/">3rd Coast Music</a> and the NotSXSW festival, and Curtis from the <a href="http://www.evangelinecafe.com/">Evangeline Cafe</a>!<br><br>
If you or anyone you knows is going to be out there, check my schedule, I have 7 shows!!! Wish me luck!<br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54162009-02-24T08:05:00-05:002017-01-11T08:35:58-05:00Local appearance at the Lizard Lounge!<img src="//i110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/empresserin/lizardberlin.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="325" width="400" /><br>
I'll be making an appearance at "the song stands alone", a night put together by the wonderful <a href="http://www.rickberlin.com/">Rick Berlin</a> on <b>Friday, March 6th</b>, at the <b><a href="http://www.lizardloungeclub.com/main.html">Lizard Lounge</a></b>! This is a full night of short solo performances by some great local guys and gals from many different bands. My appearance will probably be somewhere between 11pm and midnight, but I would suggest coming for the whole show!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54142008-12-20T10:38:43-05:002008-12-20T10:38:43-05:00Pics from the Alchemist 12/14/08 in Jamaica Plain MA<embed height="192" width="288" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5281988561721204609%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/53962008-12-10T16:50:00-05:002022-05-09T14:31:09-04:00Sun. Dec. 14th Blues Brunch ALCHEMIST / Thurs. Dec. 18th CANTAB LOUNGE<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/8e6edc02615bcaf68cbfd518b0978a7b9da4ca93/original/Tatoo-Poster-12_08.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="632" width="400" /><br><br>
I have a couple of local Boston area shows coming up. I'd like to invite you all to come celebrate the holidays with me. Let's face it, it's party season, so have brunch with me at the Alchemist this Sunday. They have the best bloody marys! Don't worry it's not too early, starts at 11am. And it's free! ;)<br><br>
If you prefer going out after dark, the best part about New England winters, I'm playing a big show at the Cantab Lounge on Thursday, Dec. 18th presented by Twisted Rico and Club Bohemia. I'm playing with some great bands including Caged Heat, female-fronted punk/blues featuring Dana Colley from Morphine on sax. (wow)<br><br><b>This Sunday Dec. 14th!</b><br>
FREE! 11am-2pm, all ages!<br><b>Blues Brunch featuring Erin @ the <a href="http://alchemistlounge.com/">Alchemist Lounge</a></b><br>
435 South Huntington Ave., Jamaica Plain, MA
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<b>Thursday Dec. 18th</b> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/twistedrico">Twisted Rico</a> and <a href="http://www.kirklandcafe.com/">Club Bohemia</a> present...<br>
Erin Harpe with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cagedheat">Caged Heat</a> (featuring <a href="http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/8586/colley.html">Dana Colley</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine_(band)">Morphine</a> on sax) & <a href="http://www.myspace.com/vulgarrity">Vulgarrity</a><br><b>@ <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cantablounge">the Cantab Lounge</a></b><br>
738 Massachussetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge MA<br>
Doors at 8PM, $7, 21+<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54132008-12-01T16:05:00-05:002022-01-07T07:25:13-05:00This Tuesday 12/2 at Plough & Stars in Cambridge!Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, counting my blessings is something I am trying to do more of! I had a great show with my dad, Neil Harpe, last Friday night at 49 West in Annapolis, Maryland. Max Ochs and Eleanor Ellis also sat in. We played two sold out shows that night and you can download both live shows below as podcasts for FREE! Over three hours of live acoustic delta blues music! I will be recording a new album with Eleanor Ellis in 2009. She is a huge inspiration for me and damn, can she sing and play the blues!!<br><br>
Don't miss my next show tomorrow night, <b>Tuesday 12/2 </b>at the excellent <a href="http://www.ploughandstars.com"><b>Plough & Stars</b></a> in Cambridge MA. Enjoy their wonderful menu and drinks, the perfect accompaniment to some down-home blues! It's FREE!!! 10pm, two sets.<br><br><a href="http://www.ploughandstars.com"><b>Plough and Stars</b></a><br><b>Tuesday, December 2nd</b><br>
912 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 576-0032<br><b>FREE! 10pm</b><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54122008-12-01T11:19:08-05:002008-12-01T11:19:08-05:00Erin and Neil Harpe at 49 West, Annapolis MD, show #2<br type="_moz">1:08:07Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54112008-12-01T11:07:57-05:002008-12-01T11:07:57-05:00Erin Harpe live at 49 West in Annapolis MD, featuring Neil Harpe, Eleanor Ellis, and Max Ochs!This is from the first show at 49 West in Annapolis MD. <br type="_moz">1:15:53Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54092008-11-10T17:13:32-05:002017-02-01T14:05:48-05:00Erin Harpe Live this Thursday 11/13/08 at the Midway Cafe - Acoustic Delta Blues and FREE BBQ RIBS!! Come on down to the Midway Cafe in downtown Jamaica Plain this Thursday evening, 11/13/08, for an early show, 8-10pm. I'll be playing two sets and the $5 cover includes free BBQ ribs from the infamous Jakes Boss BBQ! Skip the going home after work routine and come straight to the Midway for some beer, BBQ, and delta blues! The Midway is my favorite club in Boston, such a great neighborly vibe, chock full of the best in Boston's underground entertainment scene. From disco dance MUSK DJ nights, live and direct punk, reggae, electro, garage rock and roll live bands, skit comedy like you have never seen with the cast from Varietae, to the best queer karaoke night in Boston, Queeraoke, immediately following my blues sets at 10pm this Thursday.<br><br>
Check out these links:<br><br><a href="http://www.erinharpe.com">erinharpe.com</a><br><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/erinharpe">myspace.com/erinharpe</a><br><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/wonkyproductions">www.myspace.com/wonkyproductions</a><br><br><a href="http://www.midwaycafe.com">www.midwaycafe.com/</a><br><br><a href="http://www.varietae.com">www.varietae.com</a><br><br><br>
Thursday Nov. 13th<br>
Erin Harpe<br>
Acoustic Delta Blues and Free BBQ Ribs!! 8pm<br>
at the Midway Cafe<br>
3496 Washington St.<br>
Jamica Plain, MA 02130<br>
EARLY SHOW!!!!!! Two sets from 8-10pm! $5, 21+<br>
More info: 617-524-9038<br><br><br><br>
More blues gigs and recordings on the way. Check out my website at www.erinharpe.com to support the blues by buying an album or t-shirt. You can also check out my upcoming gigs, including a special trip to Maryland over Thanksgiving playing Delta Blues Duets with my Dad, Neil Harpe, in Annapolis at 49 West (Friday, November 28th). More on that next week!<br><br>
Thanks! <br><br>
Erin<br><br>
-Erin Harpe<br><a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/erinharpe">https://www.reverbnation.com/erinharpe</a><br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54082008-09-29T15:53:23-04:002008-09-29T15:53:23-04:00Live on WUML 91.5FM 9/27/08 FREE live Podcasts!!I will be posting all of my live shows for now on as FREE podcasts. Here is the first, more to come!! They will be located under the Free Downloads button under Live Podcasts.<br><br><a href="./livepodcasts.cfm">Live Podcasts!</a><br><br><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54072008-09-29T15:50:17-04:002008-09-29T15:50:17-04:00Live on WUML 91.5FM 9/27/08 Pics!!<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flacylux%2Falbumid%2F5251527064086135889%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54062008-09-21T10:15:00-04:002017-02-01T14:05:48-05:00My dad 2...My dad, Neil Harpe, on a rare Stella Harp Guitar. Some great finger-picking on this one! Check out his website, he is an expert on these old Stella Guitars. Read/hear more at <a href="http://stellaguitars.com/">StellaGuitars.com</a>.<br><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/-2IMIP8drZo&hl=en&fs=1">
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Also check out his website <a href="http://www.stellaguitars.com">StellaGuitars.com</a>!Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54042008-09-13T12:41:58-04:002008-09-13T12:41:58-04:00Sunday night at The Plough and Stars!It's your lucky weekend - Erin's playing a free, solo show at one of Cambridge's coolest acoustic venues, the Plough and Stars, this Sunday night! The Plough and Stars (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/theploughandstars">check the club out on MySpace</a>) has been recognized by Boston Magazine as one of the Best in Neighborhood Nightlife (Central Square). And did we mention it's FREE?<br><br><b>Erin @ <a href="http://www.ploughandstars.com/">the Plough and Stars</a></b><br>
912 Mass Ave.<br>
Cambridge MA<br>
9 pm, NO COVER<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54032008-08-16T16:05:00-04:002008-08-16T16:05:00-04:00Blues Brunch @ Alchemist this Sunday!Erin's back at the Alchemist Lounge for a blues brunch this Sunday, August 24th. Relax to some old time blues while enjoying brunch and a bloody mary. Mmmm! FREE!!<br>
11am to 2pm<br><br><a target="_parent" href="http://alchemistlounge.com/"><b>Alchemist Lounge</b></a><br>
435 S Huntington Ave.<br>
Jamaica Plain, MA<br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/54012008-07-23T16:20:00-04:002017-02-01T14:05:47-05:00Videos!!More vids are on the way!! Enjoy!<br><br><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/kH1CUad_E2U&hl=en&fs=1">
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We'll be uploading video from the show later this week. <br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/53992008-04-04T08:41:39-04:002008-04-04T08:41:39-04:00Delta Blues Duets Release party slideshow!!I want to thank everybody who came out to the Alchemist in JP last night to drink, dance, and celebrate my new release -- Delta Blues Duets! It was an all-around fun night, and many people went home with my brand-new CD... thank you for the support! Here are some pics of my set with special guest Nancy Leody, friend and former member of Lovewhip! Pics by Jim Countryman.<br><br><embed width="400" height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fempress.erin%2Falbumid%2F5185444416644291041%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br type="_moz">Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/53982008-04-02T18:20:00-04:002021-12-23T05:22:10-05:00Delta Blues Duets CD, Digi-Album Release!Today is the day we are finally unleashing Erin's new album, Delta Blues Duets! Leaked copies have already sold in Japan and on the West Coast... Now you can have it too! We are providing two methods of delivery, sonically speaking. You can get the old-skool CD, with printed artwork and highest audio quality. Or you can also download the 320kbps high-quality MP3 digi-album. <br>Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/53952008-02-25T09:46:42-05:002017-01-11T08:35:57-05:00Delta Blues Duets CD release!<font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, April 3rd @ the Alchemist Lounge!</span></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><br><br></span> Come join Erin in celebrating her new release at <a href="http://www.alchemistlounge.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Alchemist Lounge</span></a> in Jamaica Plain on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday, April 3rd! </span>It's a FREE show, and features Erin performing two sets of down-home acoustic blues. The new CD, <span style="font-style: italic;">Delta Blues Duets</span>, will be available for sale!<br><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thursday, April 3rd</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://alchemistlounge.com">@ the Alchemist Lounge</a></span></font><br><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>435 S Huntington Ave<br>
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130<br><span class="phone"> (617) 477-5741</span><br><span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
Delta Blues Duets</span>, Erin's new album, is just about ready for release on Juicy Juju Records! <span style="font-style: italic;">Delta Blues Duets</span> will be Erin’s second CD, on which she is accompanied on vocals and guitar by her father Neil Harpe. The duets feature harmonized vocals and dueling finger picking acoustic guitar parts, just like Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe! The ten-song CD was recorded at Mix One Studio in Boston. <br><br><span style="font-style: italic;"><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/18866/d94ea3c97f8275259e5ff0bec2be07c686a62370/original/DeltaBluesDuets.jpg?1376658845" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="298" width="300" /></span><br><br>
This will be Erin's first album that is going to be released with three options: as a CD for $10, a High Quality Digi-Album for $5, or as free mp3's. The Digi-Album comes as a downloadable zip file which will include 10 songs, artwork, and liner notes. The release will be available the first week of April, for more information sign up for her mailing list or for her blog via RSS feed.Erin Harpetag:www.erinharpe.com,2005:Post/53972008-02-17T13:37:51-05:002021-02-15T09:58:35-05:00Erin at Brookline Tai Chi this Friday!Join Erin as she performs an early show at Brookline Tai Chi in Brookline, MA. Erin plays a set of solo acoustic blues, also performing are Bajuco, Chris Conly Trio (NYC), and trumpeter/performance artist Joe Moffett. 8-11pm, $10, ALL AGES!<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Friday, Feb. 22nd</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.brooklinetaichi.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">@ Brookline Tai Chi</span></a><br>
1615 Beacon Street<br>
Brookline, MA 02446<br>
(617) 277-2975<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/brooklinetaichi%C2%A0">http://www.myspace.com/brooklinetaichi</a><br>
8pm - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/joemoffett">Joe Moffett</a><br>
8:30 - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/chrisconlymusic%20%20">Chris Conly Trio</a><br>
9:15 - Erin Harpe<br>
10pm - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bajuco">Bajuco</a>Erin Harpe