Earp’s Songwriter’s Circle!
Becoming a favorite evening at Earp's!

FEATURING—Brent Funkhouser, Susanna Laird, Juels Bland and Jeff Smith!

Brent Funkhouser’s (@brentfunkhouser) style of achingly uplifting songwriting was born out of the river bends and mountain hollows of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His songwriting displays influence from classics like Tom Petty, americana contemporaries like Jason Isbell, and Texas/red dirt songsters like Turnpike Troubadours, filtered through his mountain poet voice. The singer-songwriter has performed to hundreds of attentive audiences in nine states, opening for award-winning artists such as Judy Collins and Phil Vassar along the way.

Juels Bland (@juelsbland) - Juels Bland is an extant singer, songwriter and person from Silver Spring, MD with a decade long history of artistic performances and showcases. With original lyrics and music full of rich tones that have a sad and soulful, yet uplifting and far away sound that conjures golden afternoon scenes of a day spent soul-searching and adventuring. His second album “Something to Run From” was released in 2018.

Susanna Laird (@susannalairdmusic) - Susanna Laird is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Frederick Maryland. In addition to a wide range of covers, she performs an extensive collection of her own works. Passionate about writing songs that are poetic, intimate and authentic, she has a musical style that is a little bit folk, a little bit gospel, stirred together with rock-n-roll and poured out in soulful vocals that will leave you feeling every word.

Jeff Smith (@jeffreyt_smith) - Hitting on all cylinders, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, producer, arranger, and bandleader Jeff Smith has been skillfully crafting his own songs, as well as performing solo and in various bands. He colors outside the lines with an eclectic mix of tracks that sometimes shuffle along Cajun style, jangle with folk rock, pop, and enrich us with storied accounts that are bound in the new world of Americana-folk, and instrumental musings that are hypnotically captivating, and hip.

A GREAT EVENING OF INCREDIBLE MUSIC, INSPIRATION AND DELICIOUS FOOD!