Emily Hurd

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Latest news:
Emily Hurd to open for The Cactus Blossoms, Summer 2023

Latest Awards:
Emily Hurd is a finalist in the USA songwriting competition & semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition.

Press:
"She sits at the piano, lips to microphone, Frye boot to pedal, and speaks her mind — in song. I became an instant fan." --Val Haller, New York Times

About:
Emily Hurd is a prolific songwriter, best known for her clear voice and clever rhymes. Her songwriting style combines soul, country, folk, and blues. Paul Zollo of American Songwriter says that she writes "albums to fall into and swim in forever." Emily's songs have appeared on television's NCIS, 90210, The Good Wife, Melrose Place, and Life Unexpected. She has currently produced 19 full-length albums, most of which were recorded and engineered by John Abbey. When she's not playing music, she's running her brunch pub with her family in Rockford, Illinois.

Hurd first entered the music scene in 2005 when she and many of the staff members from Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music created her first original album. Since then, her songs have been finalists in several international songwriting competitions, including the USA Songwriting Competition, NPR’s NewSong Music Contest, The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and The Unisong International Songwriting Competition.

Her discography includes: "Meanwhile, I Love You," 2023, "Underkill," 2022, "Nightshades," 2020, "New-Fashioned Christmas," 2018, "Backbone," 2017, "Yule," 2015, "Shine Kid Shine," 2015, "Landmark," 2015, "the best-loved," 2013, "Burn Like a Field" (Stone Blind Valentine, 2013) "Any Given Day, 2012," "Long Lost Ghosts, 2012," "Tins & Pins & Peppermints, 2010, "Daytime Fireflies," 2010, "A Cache In The Warehouse Floor," 2008, "Love In Flats," 2007, "Barefoot Session," 2006, "Potent One," 2006, and "Lines," 2005.