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The MWR&BC Presents: ERIN HARPE COUNTRY BLUES DUO Featuring JIM COUNTRY MAN (USA) Live at THE BRECON TAP with special guests JOE KELLY & THE ROYAL PHARMACY (Trio) (WALES)

November 10, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 pm

FREE EVENT

Erin Harpe has been playing country blues since she was a little girl, getting her chops from her virtuoso dad, roots/blues musician & Stella guitar expert Neil Harpe. The two-time “Blues Artist of the Year”, and leader of the band Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, has earned a reputation as a captivating performer, playing stages large and small throughout the US, UK and Europe, and opening for everyone from ZZTop to Honeyboy Edwards, Buddy Guy and James Cotton. In Living Blues Magazine, Frank Matheis called Erin “one of the most dynamic, talented and exciting roots rocking blues women on the scene”, noting, “she has it all – a golden voice and guitar chops that dazzle!” Her latest album – “Meet Me In The Middle” (self-produced by Harpe, along with her husband, bassist Jim Countryman) – won the prestigious “Album of the Year” from the New England Music Awards. Erin’s high-energy performances center around her exceptional finger-style and boogie blues guitar playing as well as her striking soulful vocals. The sound she creates with her band harkens back to the time of juke joints – updated with more modern influences like funk, soul, rock, and reggae. Her music has drawn comparisons to Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Canned Heat and Maria Muldour.

For more info on Erin go to:

https://www.erinharpe.com/

https://www.erinharpe.com/presskit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Harpe_%26_the_Delta_Swingers

Special Guest Act

Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy (Trio)

It’s easy to consign the idea of the itinerant blues singer to myth (Robert Johnson) or caricature (Seasick Steve) and for quite some time, Joe Kelly was as close as you could get to the real thing.

After spending years living out of various cars, vans and caravans, touring the UK, Australia and New Zealand with just a broken-necked guitar and a battered case of harmonicas, Joe Kelly found shelter in an old Victorian police station just in time to ride out the storm that was the covid-19 pandemic.

It was in this time that Joe Kelly was able to focus on consolidating the vast wealth of songs written in transit into an album that could encapsulate the spirit of those years on the road.

Backed by the Royal Pharmacy with Jon Greening on production duties, debut LP ‘World On Fire’ sees the dustbowl-dry skeletons of Joe Kelly’s haunted blues and country songs fleshed out with a widescreen Americana sound ranging from lush to eerie.

Reworked from ‘The Album That Never Was’, Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy’s first full offering is an amalgamation of earlier tracks cut live in the studio with minimal overdubs using vintage production methods and newer tracks recorded remotely in lockdown creating a more contemporary sound reminiscent of the likes of The War On Drugs.

With the help of Dirty Carrot Records, the album is now available on all streaming sites with physical copies available at shows, in local record stores and via the band’s Bandcamp page.

https://www.joekellyofficial.com/

For more details on all of the above & The Mid Wales R&B Club follow the links below—

Angus Kings 0786 6000 596

Blues related.

www.midwalesrandb.club

angus@midwalesrandb.club

https://www.facebook.com/midwalesrhythmandblues

https://www.instagram.com/themidwalesrandb/

 

The Brecon Tap:

https://www.brecontap.foodndrink.uk/

 

 

 

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Date:
November 10, 2024
Time:
8:00 am - 11:00 pm
Cost:
FREE EVENT
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Angus Kings
Phone:
0786 6000 596
Email:
angus@midwalesrandb.club
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