Happy Fall Everyone,
This long and hot summer has flown by, as it always does. The hottest summer on record for Michigan and we really felt it!!! Happy to say that the new CD "Show Your Love" continues to break all previous records hitting # 3 with 23 weeks in the Top Ten of Billboard. Woohooo!
We started off the month of August with an amazing weekend in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada for the Kitchener Blues Festival. The main stage show was off the hook with giant jumbo trons at the back of the stage, a big raucous crowd and a great sound. Backstage hospitality was excellent as were the Festival staff. We felt very welcome and soaked in the great blues and roots music coming off the multiple down town stages. On the Saturday I did a harmonica presentation/ concert at the Boat House in Kitchener, which was packed to the rafters then followed by at late night club show at the Lancaster Smoke House. We plan to have a return visit to the Boat House on Friday February 3, 2017, which is good news!.
Then it was back to the US for a bunch of concerts in Sioux Falls and Iowa. The show at Mckennan Park Band Shell, Sioux Falls was nice, then it was a return visit to the Strawbale Winery. Unfortunately we had some huge problems with the sound system with one of the speakers blowing out, a couple of songs into the set. We soldiered through and thankfully the crowd was very forgiving. Our show at the Court House was rained out, but we ended up playing inside in the actual court room, which was very cool. The Storm Lake, Wood, Wine and Blues Festival was kinda of different, but a lot of fun, we played music while the woodmen chainsawed their wooden masterpieces. We ended our tour at the Legendary Byrons in Pomeroy, Iowa.
We have an amazing Fall/ Winter Tour coming up plus a 3 week tour to Australia in March with a possible 2 week tour to China there after! If any of you want the band to play at a festival in your home town please let the festival folks know and we will do our best to make it happen. Hope to see you out on the road this Fall!!
Harper and Midwest Kind
www.harper.biz (Official Harper Website) CDs/ Shirts/ downloads
http://cdbaby.com/cd/harperandmidwestkind2 CD Baby
www.harper.biz/workshops.html Australian Didge-ucation
www.youtube.com/harperband (for live video clips)
www.facebook.com/harperandmidwestkind
www.musicpage.com/harper
www.reverbnation.com/harperandmidwestkind
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