Emily Hurd

Latest Single:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4D58qX67gUuYhWiY3Eijjl?si=N6N2R5-yQYCV4GpGYMaJUA

2024/2025 Awards:
Emily Hurd is a finalist in the Song of the Year Award & John Lennon Songwriting Competition; she is a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition.

Upcoming Shows:
8/13/2025 Elwood House Summer Series, Dekalb, IL
8/28/2025 Fitzgerald's, Berwyn, IL
9/13/2025 Greenwich Fair, Rockford, IL

Press:
"She sits at the piano, lips to microphone, 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. She is in the studio recording her 20th album while 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 third original live album. Since then, her songs have been finalists in several international songwriting competitions, including the Song of The Year Award, USA Songwriting Competition, NPR’s NewSong Music Contest, The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and The 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.