"...polished, knowing and witty... Through it all, Harley's voice carries a positivistic tone, an attitude of hope even amidst the chaos and melancholy." Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange

"This is what country roads in America sing like: hung with dark branches and first birds calling, and the odd sense that this world is brand new but also draped in stories spun from the cracked skin and sighs of laborers and wanderers, and wild things." www.indyish.com

“Bill Harley takes his life and turns it into art. Sounds simple until you actually try to do it.  That Harley’s art seems so effortless only underscore his mastery.” Nuvo Newsweekly

Storytellers were our first magicians, our first history keepers, society builders, culture shapers and spiritual and emotional filters, making sense of the world long before written communication.
 
For all our sophisticated technology and mass electronic entertainment, we still need those voices in the dark, by the fire, in the hall. A master storyteller connects us and intimately affirms our lives with resonant truths, no matter how embroidered, funny, mysterious or horrific the tale.

Bill Harley is a master storyteller.

A two-time Grammy award winning artist, Bill uses song and story paint a vibrant picture of American life. Poignant and hilarious, his work reminds us of our common humanity and challenges us to be our very best selves. A prolific author and recording artist with twenty eight recordings and eight books to his credit, Bill is also a regular commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and featured on PBS. Harley joined the National Storytelling Network's Circle of Excellence in 2001 and tours nationwide as an author and performing artist.  Bill lives in Seekonk, Massachusetts with his wife, two large dogs and two bee hives.
 
The intimate setting of a coffeehouse or house concert provides, in some ways, the best venue to experience Bill’s direct powerful connection with the audience and his material. Songs and stories flow in and out of each other, seamlessly - funny, yes, but deep, too.

"If Bill Harley comes anywhere near where you live, I urge you to find a babysitter and get your butt out to see him.  It'll be an awesome date." Jeff Bogle, Out With The Kids