Jason Harrod is an award-winning singer-songwriter known for generous melodies and poetic, image-rich lyrics. His songs are cinematic travelogues of belonging and alienation, filled with quirky narrative and emotional detail. Jason has been writing, recording, and performing for over 25 years. Jason Harrod embodies a blend of blues and folk wrought with an extremely strong country spine. He possesses a strong voice and confident almost 50s-ish presence and sound.
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Jason Harrod is an award-winning singer-songwriter known for generous melodies and poetic, image-rich lyrics. His songs are cinematic travelogues of belonging and alienation, filled with quirky narrative and emotional detail. Jason has been writing, recording, and performing for over 25 years -- firstly as one half of the duo Harrod and Funck, then later on his own.
In 2000, Jason was a finalist in MerleFest's Chris Austin Songwriting competition. The following year, he won first place in the North Carolina Songwriters Co-Op contest. In 2009. Jason was selected as a spotlight performer at the annual Healdsburg Guitar festival, sponsored by Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and in 2012 he received a Fulbright grant to teach songwriting to students in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Drawing from a wide variety of influences, Jason is hard to pin down stylistically. One critic from the Folk and Music Exchange put it this way, “Jason Harrod embodies a blend of blues and folk wrought with an extremely strong country spine. He possesses a strong voice and confident almost 50s-ish presence and sound, writing catchy melodies with a great band."
Jason recently returned to his native Durham, NC after many years in New York. He tours frequently throughout the US.
Singing Guitarist