Lovely NEWSLETTER from EMILY BARKER (out just now!)

Hello Well... From following a brass band down Bourbon Street, New Orleans with a margarita slushie in my hand, to performing in gorgeous ornate theatres opening shows for my beautiful friend, Mary Chapin Carpenter all through the southern states of America, from a festival in Telluride, Colorado looking out at the snow-capped mountains, to a festival in Bexhill-on-Sea with Weyes Blood (we're in the UK now) looking out at the English Channel, followed by a stint at a recording studio in Frome, Somerset (more on that later), to facilitating care-experienced young adults at a writing centre in the Highlands of Scotland just outside of Inverness, and in my last week in the UK, performing at London's Southbank Centre at the Out-Spoken Poetry & Music night, it's fair to say it's been a whirlwind of a trip, a full and wonderful one, and that I'm now really looking forward to coming home to Western Australia to see family, the Indian ocean and find out if that rumour about frost in Perth is actually true. I've got some things on home turf I'm quite looking forward to as well... First up is a show presented by 'Always Good Nights' in Bunbury at The Rowing Club on Saturday 29th July with accompaniment from Lukas Drinkwater and support from Brayden Sibbald. Tickets are running low so get in quick! Earlier that day, I'll be hosting a songwriting workshop with limited spaces available. And speaking of songwriting courses, I'm then conducting a 5-week one at Fremantle Arts Centre for five weeks starting August 8th every Tuesday night from 6 - 9pm. Then on Friday 18th August, I'll be opening the show for legendary, Ian Moss, at the Regal Theatre. I grew up singing so many of his songs so this will be a real treat. Best wishes, Emily x and the very best wishes to you too Emily (and Lukas!) can’t wait to hear more about the recording sessions . . . . hmmm, most intriguing! Gosh she (they!) have been busy hurtling around the planet and I miss hearing them . . . . would love to have caught Emily on her mini-tour jaunts around the UK but wish them both the best as they re-group back ‘home’ now in Oz!