Person · Female
Emily Barker
- From
- Western Australia, United Kingdom
- Since
- 1980–present
- Releases
- 16
- alternative folk
- folk
About
Emily Barker (born 2 December 1980) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and composer. Her music has featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line. With multi-instrumental trio the Red Clay Halo, she recorded four albums: Photos.Fires.Fables. (2006), Despite the Snow (2008), Almanac (2011), Dear River (2013), before commencing a solo career with The Toerag Sessions (2015), Sweet Kind of Blue (2017), A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020), and Flight Path Rhymes (2021). Other projects include Vena Portae (with Dom Coyote and Ruben Engzell), Applewood Road (with Amy Speace and Amber Rubarth), and Room 822 (2022) with Lukas Drinkwater.
Member of
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Emily Barker & The Choir of Angels eponymous, principal
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the-low-country lead vocals
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Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 261f009d-f62e-4bbc-bc47-5de2bf447bbc
- IPI
- 00281494644
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 15 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.