Tour News - plus New Album Out Now:
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo releases her much-anticipated fourth studio album, Dear River on the 8th July 2013 on Linn Records.
Full of contrasting dynamics and a broad cavalcade of emotions, the exuberant track – a letter to the Blackwood River in Western Australia on the eve of her departure into the big, wide unknown - is the launch pad for the album’s fascinating exploration of self, place and people. “Dear River is a song about journey,” says Emily, “it is a longing for the unfamiliar, where the journey itself becomes a home. However, the more I travel and experience, the more the river calls me back and I start longing for what I knew: those first landscapes, those first loves’’
After self-financing her first three albums, Emily is now releasing her fourth album on one of the world’s leading ‘audiophile’ labels, Linn Records. Produced by Calum Malcolm (The Blue Nile) the Dear River album marks a significant sonic move forward from the previous three albums, highlighting Emily’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility, while lyrically exploring the meaning of home and its related tangents of exile, displacement, and family.
UK based but hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling singer-songwriter, who with her band The Red Clay Halo blends classical, rock, country and folk influences to stunning effect. Having released three critically acclaimed albums, played a string of sold-out UK dates, performed with Frank Turner at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and written and performed the Bafta and Ivor Novello award-winning themes to hit BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line, the Dear River album is a major landmark that will surely take Emily to a whole new level.
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo will embark on a full UK tour later this year, details below.
UK TOUR
Tue 30th July at London - Brill, Exmouth Market
Thu 10th Oct - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Fri 11th Oct - The Arch Inn, Ullapool
Sat 12th Oct - Ironworks, Inverness
Sun 13th Oct - Oran Mor, Glasgow
Tue 15th Oct - Komedia, Brighton
Wed 16th Oct - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Thu 17th Oct - Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester
Fri 18th Oct - The Globe, Cardiff
Sat 19th Oct - York, Low Mill
Sun 20th Oct - The Musician, Leicester
Mon 21st Oct - Artrix, Bromsgrove
Tue 22nd Oct - St John's Church, Oxford
Wed 23rd Oct - The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Fri 25th Oct - Open, Norwich
Sat 26th Oct - North Dorset Folk Festival
Thu 7th Nov - St Philips Church, Salford
Fri 8th Nov - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Sat 9th Nov - Cluny 2, Newcastle
Sun 10th Nov - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Mon 11th Nov - Junction 2, Cambridge
Wed 13th Nov - Discovery Centre, Winchester
Thu 14th Nov - Phoenix, Exeter
Fri 15th Nov - Plaza Suite, Sevenoaks
Sat 16th Nov - St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings
Sun 17th Nov - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Tue 19th Nov - Glee Club, Birmingham
Wed 20th Nov - Greystones, Sheffield
Thu 21st Nov - Floral Pavilion, New Brighton
Fri 22nd Nov - Folk House, Bristol
More Details HERE.
