About emilyelbert
19 year old Emily Elbert is a singer/songwriter with deep musical roots and a love for creative expression. Her music has delighted audiences and music critics alike with her jazz-infused sound, which she describes as “acoustic soul-folk.” Fresh off a northeast run with G Love and Special Sauce and a showcase spot at the Folk Alliance Festival in Memphis, Elbert is already making a name for herself. Her love of music from around the world, and distinctive combination of jazz, folk, soul, blues, and pop creates a sound that engages the hearts, minds, and ears of listeners around the globe. Emily blends a hip musical perspective with an in-depth knowledge of classic favorites to create unique vocal and guitar arrangements.
Just seven months after Emily began working as a professional performer, music critics at The Dallas Morning News selected her as “local rookie of the year” for 2006. By 18 the Coppell, Texas native had won awards for music performances on both coasts and at home, including the 2007 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble in Los Angeles and Berklee College of Music’s Performing Songwriter Contest. She also won 1st Place at the Old Settler’s Music Festival’s Youth Talent Competition and was Grand Prize Winner in Texas Music Project’s Texas 10 Under 20 Contest.
Elbert’s debut CD, Bright Side, contains eleven original songs that she wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded at Bob Gentry’s New Masters Studio in Tyler. In addition to her original music, Emily enjoys playing and singing music she admires, from Michael Jackson to Joni Mitchell.
Texas Instruments recently licensed videos of two of Emily’s songs to demonstrate their new video cell phones throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. So far in 2008, she has been a featured performer at the North American Folk Music Alliance conference in Memphis, toured the Northeast with G Love & Special Sauce and the Wood Brothers (featuring Chris Wood of Medeski Martin & Wood), has opened for Patty Larkin and Kaki King, and has upcoming shows booked with Marcia Ball and Ben Taylor.
Emily Elbert is currently based in Boston, where she is a student at Berklee College of Music.
Just seven months after Emily began working as a professional performer, music critics at The Dallas Morning News selected her as “local rookie of the year” for 2006. By 18 the Coppell, Texas native had won awards for music performances on both coasts and at home, including the 2007 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble in Los Angeles and Berklee College of Music’s Performing Songwriter Contest. She also won 1st Place at the Old Settler’s Music Festival’s Youth Talent Competition and was Grand Prize Winner in Texas Music Project’s Texas 10 Under 20 Contest.
Elbert’s debut CD, Bright Side, contains eleven original songs that she wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded at Bob Gentry’s New Masters Studio in Tyler. In addition to her original music, Emily enjoys playing and singing music she admires, from Michael Jackson to Joni Mitchell.
Texas Instruments recently licensed videos of two of Emily’s songs to demonstrate their new video cell phones throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. So far in 2008, she has been a featured performer at the North American Folk Music Alliance conference in Memphis, toured the Northeast with G Love & Special Sauce and the Wood Brothers (featuring Chris Wood of Medeski Martin & Wood), has opened for Patty Larkin and Kaki King, and has upcoming shows booked with Marcia Ball and Ben Taylor.
Emily Elbert is currently based in Boston, where she is a student at Berklee College of Music.
emilyelbert's Achievements
Opening Slot for Kaki King
March 2008 Singer/Songwriter
March 2008 Folk
URB Feature
December 2007 College Clash
November 2007 Acoustic
Relix Feature
Artist Access: Opening Act for G. Love
September 2007 Acoustic
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Love your stuff... I'm over at Emerson in Boston, so we're not too far! Let me know if you're ever having a show in town!
keep it up sister, you're rockin' it.
you are wonderfully talented.Truly awesome!
ZaZ.
YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!
You have a charismatic deliverance in your voice that is intensely seductive! Al the best in your musical endeavors. Come check me out, and I hope you enjoy my musical roller coaster piano album. quite outside the box.
lots of love!
DAVID
Good Luck and maybe we can work together in the future. Your Voice, My Music, it could be something that would make peoples' hair stand on edge and plaster them with goosebumps. lol.
I'm a bit of a dreamer here, but aren't we all.
Great Job, Emily!
VERY happy to be a friend and fan of yours!
Much love and success!
peace to you. Texas Pea
Mark
Sorry I didn't get a chance to say hey, maybe next time.
Keep makin music!
>>Alan
I love the truth of your voice!
It sound's Amazing.
Sincerely,
Giancarlo
Your song and voice is awesome. I like the 'feel' and 'energy' you put into 'I Feel Fine'. Very nice song.
Born Ready
~Nicole
You are wonderful! I represent the band MAINTAIN but have a voice of my own and this voice says that she loves your voice!! Forward anything about your music to www.myspace.com/suckadmaintain
Peace!
Deanna
Heartfelt Vocals... Brilliant Arraignments...
The Worlds Been Waiting For You...
-CHEERS-
-TK-
ps-i'm from texas too.
I really like the feel/mood you create with your music.
Best of luck.
Dan Tharp (http://dantharpmusic.com)