SONGWRITER + COMPOSER
“Unites the traditional and the modern in a stunning, beautiful fashion…”
—Pop Matters
Stark melodies over banjo and piano. Candid stories about stretching your limits and finding your way home. Emily’s intimate songs and chamber music ask the listener to hear the past as part of the present.
Emily is a founding member of The Early Mays, an old-time, vocal harmony trio that topped the National Folk-DJ charts, won the Clifftop Neo-Traditional Band competition, and performed on NPR’s Mountain Stage.
Ephemera Ballads
Chamber-folk piece that gives shape to ghosts of the Hudson Valley. For voice, banjo, flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano and bass.
Rounder Songs
Appalachian song cycle by Emily Pinkerton & Patrick Burke (New Amsterdam Records).
LoOKING For Violeta
Original score for dramatic work about Chilean artists Violeta and Nicanor Parra with Quantum Theatre