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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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.