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As part of its mission to bring the arts to all communities throughout our region, The Exchange has hosted a monthly Blues/Americana/Roots Listening Room in its storefront art gallery on Main Street in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, since the summer of 2017.On January 27th, 2027, we welcome ERIN HARPE & JIM COUNTRYMAN to Bloomsburg for the first time.
$15 donation at the door, BYOB permitted.
Find videos of dozens of earlier concerts at youtube.com/@exchangearts.
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Blues is the first music Erin remembers hearing, specifically Piedmont Blues, a syncopated, fingerpicked variant of the Blues popularized in the East coast region by artists such as Blind Blake and Josh White, and later Rev. Gary Davis and Cephas & Wiggins. Arlo Guthrie used Piedmont guitar accompaniment for his well-known monologue-style song “Alice’s Restaurant”, which was Erin’s entry into playing this style.
Select collective career highlights include rave press in LA Weekly, Boston’s Weekly Dig, Boston Herald, DownBeat Magazine, and Living Blues Magazine, among other outlets. She’s a Boston Music Award Winner and a five-time BMA nominee, and she is a New England Music Award winner and an International Blues Challenge Semifinalist. Erin has had songs featured on Showtime’s Shameless, MTV’s Veronica Mars, Paris Hilton’s BFF, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, and many other shows.
Erin has jammed with iconic acoustic blues artists Phil Wiggins (of Cephas & Wiggins), Warner Williams and Jay Summerour, Eleanor Ellis, Jontavious Willis, and James Montgomery. She’s opened for legends including ZZ Top, T-Model Ford, Honeyboy Edwards, Roy Bookbinder, and James Cotton. Erin has played at the House of Blues, Caffe Lena, Club Passim, the International Blues Challenge, South by Southwest, the New York State Blues Festival, and many other festivals and venues around the US. In 2025, her duo with her partner Jim Countryman had a wildly successful month-long tour of the UK, their fifth, and will tour Spain for the third time in April 2026.
Find out more at erinharpe.com.
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