Amber Rubarth

Amber Rubarth's musings on life are delightful in their innocence with a depth wise beyond her years. Her song "Washing Day" (co-written with Adam Levy) was chosen as 1st place in the International Songwriting Competition by her musical hero Tom Waits. Her songs have attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and a Sun Studio Session now airing on PBS. Rubarth is now touring regularly throughout the US, Europe and Japan in support of her latest record "Good Mystery" and has shared stages with Loudon Wainwright III, Colin Hay, Lisa Loeb, Joshua Radin, Jason Reeves, Sara Bareilles, Colbie Caillat and Brett Dennen. Rubarth is now composing for films, most recently writing the music with Paul Brill for Sundance Film Festival winner "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work." She is also one half of Brooklyn's buzz band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlight feature. At 17 years old, Amber Rubarth moved to Nevada to become a chainsaw sculptor. Three years later during a late night talk with her sculpting teacher, she decided to go for her true passion and traded her chainsaw in for a guitar. Hollywood’s Music Connection magazine caught a show and immediately named her in their Top 100 Artists, and The Owl Mag voted her debut record in their Top 10 Albums of the Year (alongside Kanye West, Andrew Bird and Alicia Keys). When NPR’s Tastemaker Bob Boilen heard Rubarth’s album he gave her a feature on All Songs Considered, saying he was “attracted by the honesty and the humor in a song by Amber Rubarth. This one has charm and a story that drew me in.” Boston Globe sums it up, saying “You will leave with a crush on her.”