Emily Spiers

After singing in choirs and musicals for years, Emily won the "Young Wychavon Musician of the year" award in 1997. For many years afterwards she was the singer with the band Penfold performing in and around London, recording two albums with the group. Since then, Emily has returned to her traditional music roots and is now to be seen in sessions and giving concerts in England and Germany. Her multi-faceted singing style incorporates both English and Irish traditions. Since 2007 Emily has sung regularly with the band Blue, performing in both England and Germany. She regularly gives workshops in traditional singing in Germany and the Netherlands and she has just released her first album, The Half-Moon Lovers, which has been received with critical acclaim:

“...Emily’s a persuasive singer with a good grasp of the expressive potential of a song”

“The musical settings Emily employs are very much acoustic-Celtic (predominantly Irish-inflected) in flavour, mostly scored for the small but perfectly formed ensemble of whistle, bouzouki and fiddle with sprightly bodhrán and sometimes accordion or bass to thicken the texture but always recorded with plenty of presence and separation” David Kidman, The Living Tradition

"…Expressive, accomplished singing…with an unmistakably unique character“

″Well-made, well-produced modern folk”
Stefan Backes, Irland Journal