The Stapletons

The Stapletons are a harp and guitar, husband wife duo. Their blues-driven harp and guitar arrangements topped by ethereal vocal harmonies combine to create a wondrous, baroque folk sound.

Casey, a mariachi from LA married Kate, an Irish Wisconsin farmgirl. Swept into the city life of post-industrial Pittsburgh, The Stapletons set about reconciling their many cultural clashes and started a brood of children. Six years later they sat down one morning in the kitchen with a Celtic harp and a Mexican guitar and created their first album, Ballads and Battles. The music on the upcoming album is rooted in civil and marital strife. Inspired by six years of struggles and a home surrounded by civil war ghosts, this husband wife duo write intricate songs that bring the past alive, lift listeners out of the present and into the stars.