Emily Barker
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Emily Barker is a singer-songwriter hailing from the quiet town of Bridgetown, Western Australia.
Emily first entered the UK music scene via the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2002 where she appeared with guitarist Rob Jackson (Boo Hewerdine’s guitarist). The success of this performance, lead them to form a band called the-low-country of which Emily was the songwriter and front person. They released 2 albums, played numerous Alt-country venues and festivals, and enjoyed several plays on John Peel’s show.
Please visit: www.the-low-country.com for more information or to order a cd.
In October 2005, Emily won both Country song of the year and Regional song of the year at the prestigious Annual West Australian Music Song writing Awards. This year she also toured and sang in place of Stephanie Arlene with UK Americana heroes ‘The Arlenes’ on their UK tour.
In 2006 Emily again appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival, this time accompanied by The Red Clay Halo -a female trio comprising of Violin, Cello and Accordion/ Flute. She also sang a duet with Steve Adams of The Broken Family Band.
In January 2007, Emily released a limited edition of her debut solo album ‘Photos.Fires.Fables.’ which received numerous positive reviews in UNCUT, Q, The Word, The Times, The Independent and many more. (Please see some of the quotes to your left...)
Off the back of this success, Emily got to tour as support for Mary Gauthier and play Glastonbury Festival with The Red Clay Halo- just to mention a couple of the year's highlights...
2008 got off to a stonking start when Emily completed a tour of major cities in Australia opening shows for Jose Gonzalez where she performed in front of crowds of up to 2500 solo. She went down a storm!