Emily Arin
- From:
- Montour Falls, New York
- Joined:
- over 3 years ago
Bio
“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
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—“woodshedding” as it were. Her growth as a songwriter this past year has attracted 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…”
