Press Kit | Emilykeeble

Bio

Emily's songs are ever-evolving explorations of her inner world, collections of both sweet and bitter reminiscence and love letters to the land. Inherently political, she writes songs that are intended as spells and incantations, celebrating the patterns, cycles and shifts of nature, protesting our interference in them. Traditional folklore weaves through cello grooves, gentle finger-picked guitar and soft vocals.

With minimalistic arrangements and a forever growing curiosity around how she can use the instruments around her to create something that illustrates the complexity and nuance she hopes to communicate, Emily's songs are dreamy yet with feet firmly on the ground, painting a unique picture of who she is and how she experiences the world.

Emily was lucky enough to have a childhood steeped in music on all sides, learning cello classically and singing in choirs with school and church.

Now studying folk music at Leeds Conservatoire, she is part of various projects aside from her work as a solo artist, each facilitating a new and unique outlet for her joy in creating.

With influences including Nick Drake, Katherine Priddy, Anna Mieke, Laura Marling, Alice Phoebe Lou, The Rheingans Sisters, Hannah James and Toby Kuhn, Emily drifts across genre borders, invoking soft elements of jazz into a contemporary folk feel, while paying homage to the roots of the folk tradition.