Montour Falls, New York
Singer-Songwriter, Lyricist, Composer

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"ain't it funny how an old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring, but it's far far from me."

BIOGRAPHY

2009 has been an exciting year of expansion and recognition for Emily Arin as a singer and songwriter. She has been a guest on Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight on The Loft on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and WFUV (out of Fordham University in the Bronx), was selected as one of the top 5 unknown artists by Kim Ruehl on No Depression's website, and will be recording a full length album this summer with Greg Weeks of the band Espers.

Emily continues to build her following by playing locally in Ithaca, Brooklyn and New York City. Having hosted bands from both Germany and Sweden, she has a small, but growing fan base across the Atlantic as well.

A Los Angeles native, Emily Arin migrated to a small town in Schuyler County, New York in August 2007 with the goal of diving deeper into the craft of songwriting.

She is thrilled to be backed by an amazingly talented cast of Ithaca-based musicians (Peter Glanville, Gordon Rowland, Brian Dozoretz) to bring her shows to life. Additionally, she has had the pleasure of joining Jennie Lowe and the Fire Choir (formerly the Jennie Stearns band) singing harmony and performing at the esteemed Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance.

A recent article published in the Ithaca Journal reads, “A creative writer, a journalist, a gardener…and an employee at all manner of odd jobs, Arin is at her core an incredibly gifted songwriter. On tracks like “White Heat,” “Evergreen,” “Love, Love, Love,” and the Hank Williams sing-a-long “You Won My Heart Outright” from 2007’s Time and Space, and on the more recent “I Want You to Sing Along With Me,” Arin shares the highs and lows of a contemplative life. [She] writes with profound emotional intimacy and honesty and has an exquisite voice to boot. Her talent is on par with early Gillian Welch, Jana Hunter and Nina Nastasia…"

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country

Contact

Management: emilyasnider@gmail.com
Publishing: emilyasnider@gmail.com
Booking: emilyasnider@gmail.com
Administrative: emilyasnider@gmail.com

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / harmonica / piano / vocals

INFLUENCES

Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Caetano Veloso, Townes Van Zandt, Os Mutantes, Asha Bhosle, John Prine, Van Morrison, Hank Williams, Joni Mitchell, West African Kora music, Glen Gould, Paul Simon, Billy Bragg, Miriam Makeba, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Frank Sinatra, Brian Eno, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake, Edith Piaf, Amalia Rodriguez, Yann Tiersen, Cat Power, Buena Vista Social Club, Enya, Peggy Lee, Beatles (together and apart), Coleman Hawkins, Phil Ochs, Calexico, Thelonius Monk, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ennio Morricone, Billie Holiday, Neko Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Josh Ritter, Will Oldham, Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Orchestra Baobob, Willie Nelson, Cesaria Evora, Tom Petty, Memphis Minnie, Glen Gould, Cat Stevens...

DAY JOB

Songwriter and Performer

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG PLACEMENTS

Two songs (When You Knew Me When and The Hidden Flame) in Greenland's first international feature film "Nuummioq"

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

"One of my finds here at the end of the year—her name is Emily Arin. She's one of the most interesting new song writers I've come across in a while." -Vin Scelsa, legendary DJ and host of Idiot’s Delight on WFUV “The singer and songwriter Emily Arin is the most talented solo artist to emerge in Ithaca this year…” –Luke Z. Fenchel for The Ithaca Journal Mike Pinder's Songwars Honorable Mention 2008 Semi-Finalist in the Jezebel Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition in Brooklyn, New York

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,