Amber Rubarth won the Grand Prize in this year’s NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest, giving her the great opportunity to record her newest release with Grammy-Award winning producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon). The album is set for release on August 23, 2011 followed by nationally syndicated performance on NPR’s Mountain Stage. Her songs have attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and a Sun Studio Session now airing nation-wide on PBS.
"With songs both quirky and endearingly candid, Amber Rubarth is a refreshing talent on the rise. As illustrated on her third and latest LP, Good Mystery, she complements a gentle folk/pop vibe with a storyteller's engagement and the unassuming, often akward charm of a girl you wished lived next door." -BlogCritics.
At 21 years old, Amber decided to put aside her career as a chainsaw sculptor in Nevada in order to pursue music. She taught herself guitar, started playing open mics, and began touring throughout the US, Europe and Japan. New fans told their friends, and soon her songs had received over 1.5 million plays on MySpace. Many concerts began to sell out and she was asked to share the stage with such greats as Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and Lisa Loeb. Rubarth now composes for films as well, most recently composing all music with Paul Brill for the highly acclaimed Sundance Film Festival winner "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work." She is also one half of Brooklyn's buzz band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlightfeature.
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Hello friend! So I was clearing out brush leading to a secret waterfall last week and picked up a new friend... her name is poison ivy and we became quite attached very quickly. She is on her way out now and I'm left happy and inspired as ever, soaking in sunshine and music and lots of joyfulness (and pink calamine lotion). Flying this Thursday to CALIFORNIA to play house concerts (yippee!), a festival in NEVADA (woo!), and a big outdoor concert in Los Angeles! Then eastbound to NEW YORK CITY for a concert at the World Financial Center Plaza, followed by NPR's MOUNTAIN STAGE (yes yes yes!) in WEST VIRGINIA with... John Oates! Pinch me! Would love to see you, and your friends and pets and neighbors. Last week I was a big introvert and got all my looking inward out, now I'm in full-blown friend mode. Come play! UPCOMING CONCERTS: JULY 21 . . . . Oakland, CA : House Concert. 7pm / $15 RSVP to utahgirlmusic@gmail.com JULY 22 . . . . San Francisco, CA : House Concert. 7:30pm *Sold Out* JULY 23 . . . . San Rafael, CA : House Concert. 7:30pm / $20 *Sold Out* JULY 24 . . . . San Francisco, CA : House Concert. 2pm / $20 RSVP to kcturnermusic@gmail.com JULY 24 . . . . Virginia City, NV : Virginia City Women's Festival. 9pm / $25-$30 JULY 28 . . . . San Diego, CA : House Concert. 7pm / $15 RSVP to bfxwilson@gmail.com JULY 29 . . . . Los Angeles, CA : 7+FIG Ernst & Young Plaza. 6pm / Free www.artsbrookfield.com AUG 4 . . . . . New York, NY : WFC Plaza. 5:30pm / Free www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com AUG 7 . . . . . Charleston, WV : Mountain Stage w/ John Oates! 7pm / $15-$25 www.mountainstage.org WHAT IS THAT... YOU WANT TO HELP? Awwww.... THANK YOU! So there's this amazing floating concert on the ocean called Cayamo that I reeeeaalllyyy would love to perform on. This year they're including a lot of my favorite songwriters, John Prine, Loudon Wainwright III, Greg Brown, Buddy Miller... What you can do to help is (1) Tweet @Cayamo (2) Post a message on their Facebook page, or (3) Contact them directly from their website letting them know you want to hear me on the boat! The lovely Facebook community has set up a page here to help too, thank you! --> http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Want-Amber-Rubarth-on-Cayamo-2012/150420861698334?sk=info MORE EXCITING STUFF: The Accidental Extravaganza @ Rockwood Music Hall www.accidentalextravaganza.comhas become nothing less than ridiculous. The sound and videos turned out amazing thanks to Modern Vintage and Rockwood, they will be available free to you in 3 weeks... there is also an option to donate with all proceeds going to a *very* cool non-profit organization to be announced. Featuring collaborations with Adam Levy, J Blynn, Nate Campany, Ian Axel, Jason Mraz, Adam Levy, The Paper Raincoat, Alex Wong, Rosi Golan, J Blynn, Jeff Taylor, The Animators, Lisa Jaeggi, Paul Brill and Threeds! Holymolywow. So grateful to my friends for being such humongo-inspirations. Jason Reeves www.jasonreeves.comand I got to record our pretty little duet "City Starts to Bloom" in Nashville together a few days ago. Can't wait for you to hear it, it's on the new album which is being mixed right now by Jacquire King! Oh! AND A PRETTY PICTURE I TOOK FROM THE SKY: Sunset from above the clouds, on my way home from Nashville. Glorious! Love you all. Thank you for being so fantastically you. Xx Amber
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Published on: 2011-06-20 00:39:54
Hello lovely friends! I moved north of the city, happily surrounded by trees.... been waking to chipmunks wrestling in the yard and newborn deer and fuzzy little goslings popping up all over. Last night I fell asleep with the big moon shining off the river (like a national guitar) and fireflies lighting up and disappearing like little miracles. Nature never gets old.
Last week was a treat with the NYC show turning into an ACCIDENTAL EXTRAVAGANZA shared with many of my favorite musicians / songwriters / humans ever. Thanks to Rockwood Music Hall & Modern Vintage, we have live audio and video which will be online soon. You will flip out when you hear everyone, so many fun collaborations... in order of appearance: Threeds, Paul Brill, Lisa Jaeggi, Jeff Taylor, Nate Campany, Rosi Golan, The Animators, Adam Levy, Ian Axel, Jason Mraz, J Blynn, and Alex Wong. Here's a video courtesy of Rebel Spirit Music of our last song of the night.
The EUROPE TOUR was magnifique! Thank you to our new friends! And Tim Snider for joining! And to all you schnippseners and claque-de-doiters! More photos and videos soon.
Next Up: CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, & MOUNTAIN STAGE!! 7/21....... Oakland, CA @ House Concert Tickets 7/22....... Palo Alto, CA @ House Concert 7/23....... San Rafael, CA @ House Concert *sold out* 7/24....... San Francisco, CA @ House Concert Tickets 7/28....... San Diego, CA @ House Concert Tickets 7/29....... Los Angeles, CA @ Arts Brookfield presents Summer on the Plaza 8/4......... New York, NY @ Arts World Financial Center presents Summer on the Plaza 8/7......... Charleston, WV @ Mountain Stage Radio Show! With John Oates! Tickets
I am thrilled to be performing on MOUNTAIN STAGE RADIO with John Oates (!!) August 7th and want to thank New Song and Mountain Stage for their lovely contest (I won, I won!). The performance will air on NPR in September, stay tuned. Tickets on sale now, read more about it here. And if you're a musician, enter their contest this year!
Sending big love to you, can't wait to share music from my NEW ALBUM - we'll have mixes soon. There's a new song called City Starts to Bloom that is a beautiful duet with my Vespa Tour magical cohort Jason Reeves, and another song called Mirror which I was honored to co-write and sing with the mysterious wonder Jason Mraz. Can't wait to share these (and more) with you....
See you soon. Love yourself, you're beautiful. Amber
