Highly acclaimed guitarist/singer/songwriter Nick Harper makes his first appearance here at The Barrrel House Ballroom, Totnes to support the release of his 14th studio album - EARTH DAY BLUE

His new album 'Earth Day Blue' has received great critical acclaim.

 

Accomplished guitarist, songwriter and acoustic performer, Nick got his professional start on the mid-'80s album Whatever Happened to Jugula, a collaboration of his father, Roy Harper, and Jimmy Page. From that time on, Nick toured and recorded regularly with his dad. His own debut as a leader came in 1994 with the EP Light at the End of the Kennel. His first full-length, Seed, followed a year later. Singer, composer, and former Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook heard Harper perform and was impressed enough to sign him to the new label Quixotic Records. After touring around the U.K., North America, and Japan, Harper recorded the first of his albums for Quixotic; the 1998 release, Smithereens, was followed by another tour. His third album Harperspace, came out in 2000. After 11 studio albums, 3 live CDs, 2 EPs and a rockumentary style DVD 'Love is Music', Nick's work is still as fresh and vital as that of his first solo release in 1994 but as evidenced by his highly personal 2020 album Phantastes, he still has time to sing about the most important things in his world - family, friends, love and life.

 

 

Reviews

 

‘Harper has so much musicianship in him it just leaks out all over the place.’ The Times

‘One of the finest guitarists of his generation, the Bard of Wiltshire’ Mojo

‘He deserves to become a major figure in his own right’ The Guardian

‘Dylan for the iPod generation...Betjeman with a guitar.’ Guitarist

‘My musical discovery of 2016!’ Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

 

‘Acoustic Hendrix!’ Guitar Magazine

‘Hey, the boy is good!’ Robert Plant

‘That boy is too good.’ Bert Jansch

 

“Album of the Month: Dubbed 'the acoustic Hendrix' and the 'English Jeff Buckley', with this amount of

melodic and sonic ingenuity, Nick Harper could be dubbed 'the new Beck' - but that would be a bigger

 

compliment to Mr. Hansen than it would be to Harper.”

 

Guitar Magazine

 

“One of the finest guitarists of his generation, his soaring vocal range and propensity for epic song place

him somewhere between Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley. Thus far, however, putting his musical

freedom before the demands of career, his talents have gone largely unrewarded. Miracles For Beginners,

 

his most focused, warm and triumphant album to date, could right that wrong.” Mojo

“'The Verse Time Forgot' from 'Harperspace' is as close to a perfect song as you are likely to get.”

 

Edinburgh Evening News

 

“Be there or be denied a life-affirming experience” Rob Adams, Glasgow Herald