SHORT-FORM BIO:

Singer-songwriter Harry Remer plays regularly around Southern New England, and released the full-length album Clean Break in spring, 2025. His sharp, quirky songs have drawn comparisons to John Hiatt and Richard Thompson.

MEDIUM-FORM BIO:

Singer-songwriter Harry Remer has been playing clubs, cafes, and music festivals all around Southern New England since the 1990s, and is regularly featured on radio and network TV in his native Western Massachusetts. With his band, the Uncommon Denominators, he released the full-length album Clean Break in spring, 2025. Harry's sharp, quirky songs have drawn comparisons to John Hiatt and Richard Thompson.
 

LONG-FORM BIO:

Like a Fine Cheese, Singer-songwriter Gets Sharper with Age

Born and raised in New York City, Harry was exposed to a wide world of music while growing up. He was born a second time at New York City's High School of Music and Art, where guitar-playing friends inspired in Harry an avid interest in playing. 

“Eventually, I talked my mom into pulling out her old Gibson (from her Pete Seeger days in the 1940s) and I played my first chords.”  By the time he got to college, he was leading bands and playing original songs; after graduation, he played post-punk in a wide range of gritty New York dive bars.

In the 1990s, Harry was inspired to step onto the singer-songwriter path. He moved to Boston to be closer to the thriving  scene there. “Discovering John Hiatt's deep cuts was really my songwriting ‘aha moment.’ I set out to make sharply-crafted, tart songs with an emotional punch. People have sometimes mistaken my songs for Hiatt's or Richard Thompson's, and that's quite a thrill.” 

After some years, Harry needed a better income source. Bone-weary of the poor-musician lifestyle, he went back to school for a masters in counseling psychology, and then started practicing in Western Massachusetts. Somewhere in there, he stopped playing music. Life was full and rich, and music went into deep freeze. 

18 years later, it's the pandemic, and Harry decided to try music again. "I had time, so I gave it a couple months to see how much ability I could regain. If it was too frustrating, I'd just stop again.” He soon fell deeper in love than ever, and started songwriting again with a passion.

“I’d lived so much life since I'd quit music! I had a ton of songs waiting to come out," Harry says. "And they're more mature, less self-absorbed. I like James Baldwin's outline of the task of a writer: describing ordinary people dealing with the biggest and smallest questions in life. 

The new songs seem to speak to listeners. In the last few years, he's played cafes, clubs, music festivals, appeared on local network television and radio, and has been recognized on the local scene.  

Harry recorded his  first full-length album, Clean Break,  in early 2025, and he and his band, the Uncommon Denominators, played to a full house in Easthampton, MA, for the record release party.

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