Howdy everyone,
Sending positive healing vibes and prayers to our brothers and sisters in Orlando, Florida.
We have just come back from an amazing weekend in Orangeville, Ontario Canada where we were fortunate enough to headline the Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival. What an amazing event, located down town with multiple stages, workshops, food vendors , arts/crafts and a car show. The weather was stunning, the vibes were friendly and the crowd numbers were full to the max. This was guitarist Mike Howe's first show with us, returning after a 14 month hiatus.
The new CD "Show Your Love" hit # 5 on Billboard Blues Charts for the second week and top ten for the past 10 weeks. Also # 10 on The Roots Music Report and # 1 Hot Hit Tracks 100, in the Netherlands woohoo! And to top it off, # 3 on The Australian Blues Charts, so cool to be appreciated by the folks from home! In May we headed down south for some very nice shows. The first show was The Natchez Festival of Music, held at the Performing Arts Center. This theatre was featured in the James Brown Film. A beautiful building for sure. After the show, the sponsors for the event kindly held a reception for us in their home which was a renovated Train Station. The next show was Martins in Jackson, Mississippi, this was a bit of a quite one, but a really nice room and cool folks. Then we headed North to BBs Jazz Blues and Soups, St Louis. Yes we are back at BBs!!! Some of you may remember we had to cancel last time through. Word is that the old management is back in place and all is well. We had an amazing show at Blues at The Bohm in Albion Michigan. This is a cool theatre gig where we got to play a set and then the blues jammers got up to jam for a few sets then we finished off the night. We had a great turnout - 217 peeps for a Monday night aint too shabby. The Bohm theatre is a stunning music venue, check it out if you are ever in Albion, Michigan
We have a busy summer schedule coming up, loads of festivals, concert series, some club dates and workshops. Please check out the tour guide below. Hope to see you out on the road this summer!!
Thanks and Peace,
Harper and Midwest Kind
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Harper and Midwest Kind March 2016 Blog
Hey Everyone,
Happy Easter! Just back from a tour down South and getting ready to head out again this week.Very happy to say that the new CD "Show Your Love" is now available for pre release on the newly revamped Harper and Midwest Kind website: www.harper.biz Downloads are also available on CD baby, iTunes, Rhapsody and more: http://cdbaby.com/cd/harperandmidwestkind2
So happy with this CD. It was created by the love of our fans. I feel it is the best music Ive ever written.I hope you all enjoy the new tunes. Official Release date is March 31st!
February saw us in the snows of winter. After our amazing sold out show at Violets in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, we headed back to Michigan. About 30 minutes from the US Border, we made a stop at a Gas Station, then we headed to the Tunnel at Windsor. I had to change some Canadian Cash into US Dollars at the Currency Exchange. When I got back in the van, we all noticed that our drummer Mario Copeland was no where to be seen. Then the horrible realization hit us- we had left Mario behind at that gas station! I then had to talk the Canadian Border guard into letting me turn the van around so we could back track to that gas station from earlier that day. Mario didn't have a phone on him and we had his passport, so there was no way to contact him. Incredibly we found the Gas Station and we were so happy to see Mario's smiling face as we rolled into the car park. Funnily enough this is the second time this has happened to us, but we will make sure it doesn't happen again!
As we headed south to Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, a huge snow storm hit Michigan, we were happy to leave when we did. We had three weeks of amazing weather and great shows at the Blue Note Grill, NC, Darwins in GA, the Legendary BBC in Tallahassee, FL, The Green Parrot in Key West, Guanabanas in Jupiter, our fav Irish Pub - The Celtic Ray, Punta Gorda, The Little Bar in Goodland, Key Largo's Bayside Grille and Terra Fermata in Stuart. On some off days we hung with some friends in Jupiter - Katie and Everett and Dawn and Scott. We had bon fires every night and I even cooked a massive salmon pie for us all! Our friends Ann Marie and Mackie gave us a delicious feast before the Celtic Ray show!! We had some mighty fine dining in Florida for sure! . We all managed to put on a few extra pounds. It was a big haul North to Michigan, but when we arrived we were greeted by Spring! Hope to see you at our CD release Parties and upcoming tours!
Thanks and Peace, Harper and Midwest Kind
www.harper.biz (Official Harper Website) CDs/ Shirts/ downloads
http://www.harper.biz/workshops.html Australian Didge-ucation/ harmonica workshops
Happy Easter! Just back from a tour down South and getting ready to head out again this week.Very happy to say that the new CD "Show Your Love" is now available for pre release on the newly revamped Harper and Midwest Kind website: www.harper.biz Downloads are also available on CD baby, iTunes, Rhapsody and more: http://cdbaby.com/cd/harperandmidwestkind2
So happy with this CD. It was created by the love of our fans. I feel it is the best music Ive ever written.I hope you all enjoy the new tunes. Official Release date is March 31st!
February saw us in the snows of winter. After our amazing sold out show at Violets in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, we headed back to Michigan. About 30 minutes from the US Border, we made a stop at a Gas Station, then we headed to the Tunnel at Windsor. I had to change some Canadian Cash into US Dollars at the Currency Exchange. When I got back in the van, we all noticed that our drummer Mario Copeland was no where to be seen. Then the horrible realization hit us- we had left Mario behind at that gas station! I then had to talk the Canadian Border guard into letting me turn the van around so we could back track to that gas station from earlier that day. Mario didn't have a phone on him and we had his passport, so there was no way to contact him. Incredibly we found the Gas Station and we were so happy to see Mario's smiling face as we rolled into the car park. Funnily enough this is the second time this has happened to us, but we will make sure it doesn't happen again!
As we headed south to Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, a huge snow storm hit Michigan, we were happy to leave when we did. We had three weeks of amazing weather and great shows at the Blue Note Grill, NC, Darwins in GA, the Legendary BBC in Tallahassee, FL, The Green Parrot in Key West, Guanabanas in Jupiter, our fav Irish Pub - The Celtic Ray, Punta Gorda, The Little Bar in Goodland, Key Largo's Bayside Grille and Terra Fermata in Stuart. On some off days we hung with some friends in Jupiter - Katie and Everett and Dawn and Scott. We had bon fires every night and I even cooked a massive salmon pie for us all! Our friends Ann Marie and Mackie gave us a delicious feast before the Celtic Ray show!! We had some mighty fine dining in Florida for sure! . We all managed to put on a few extra pounds. It was a big haul North to Michigan, but when we arrived we were greeted by Spring! Hope to see you at our CD release Parties and upcoming tours!
Thanks and Peace, Harper and Midwest Kind
www.harper.biz (Official Harper Website) CDs/ Shirts/ downloads
http://www.harper.biz/workshops.html Australian Didge-ucation/ harmonica workshops
www.youtube.com/harperband (for live video clips)
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