Emily Barker (expired event)

Returning home for a very special show at Mojo's Bar, Emily Barker is excited to play songs from her highly-acclaimed past albums, and some new material.

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC's hugely successful crime drama Wallander. Originally hailing from Bridgetown, WA, she has lived most of her adult life in the UK where she has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands, including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae, and Applewood Road, with whom she released an album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone. She's also written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin's lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen. In 2018 she was crowned UK Americana Artist of the Year.

As a performer, Barker is captivating, and accomplished, with an adept understanding of audiences that finds her equally at home touring with punk troubadour Frank Turner as she is with American multi-Grammy-winning musician Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Her show at Mojos Bar will be accompanied by Lukas Drinkwater on double bass and guitar, and support from Leah Grant.