Earp’s Songwriter’s Circle!
A favorite evening at Earp's!

FEATURING—Brent Funkhouser, Dan Maguire and Joe McGavin!

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.

Dan Maguire is a songwriter originally from Tulsa, OK, now living in Rockford IL–imagine the music that Lyle Lovett would make if Jack Johnson and Eric Clapton stopped by his barbecue. My album “Travelin’ Light” had Bored City calling it “a beautiful journey that touches the soul” and WNIU said “He knew how to work a crowd and everyone was into his eclectic sound and original tunes.”
Travelin' Light also won Album of The Year in the 2023 Rockford Area Music Industry Awards!
"Singer-songwriter Dan Maguire's musical style is the product of a slow cook alchemy that gives the listener memories of easy, sunny days with their feet up, smelling cut grass, and an ice-cold beer within reach. Think Lyle Lovett, Jack Johnson, Dave Mathews or something Southern. It’s country, jazzy rock and roll.”

Joe McGavin (@joemcmusic) - Longtime coverer of songs by McCartney, Lennon, Springsteen, Townshend, Jackson Browne, Badfinger, Billy Joel, Fountains of Wayne & many others, Joe McGavin has become a songwriter in his own right who evokes the best qualities of the writers he admires most to write lyrics as heartbreaking as they are true.

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