Emily Barker

Australian-born singer-songwriter and composer Emily Barker (2 December 1980) moved to the UK in 2002 basing herself in Cambridge. After forming a band called the-low-country with guitarist Rob Jackson she toured the UK, recorded two albums and received recognition and support from influential English DJ, the late John Peel. After the release of her solo album Photos. Fires. Fables. in 2005, Emily Barker joined forces with Anna Jenkins, Jo Silveston and Gill Sandell, a trio of talented multi-instrumentalists. Calling themselves Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo their 2008 debut album Despite the Snow received widespread critical acclaim. The album's opening track was a stark, haunting ballad called "Nostalgia" and the track was subsequently re-recorded and adopted as the theme music to Wallander, a cult British TV series starring actor Kenneth Brannagh. The exposure led to Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo recording a further three albums. In tandem with her career as a solo artist and as a band member, Emily Barker is rapidly becoming an established composer within the TV and film industry and has scored music for the horror film The Keeping Room and wrote the soundtrack for the UK movie Hector released in 2015. She followed up with solo albums Sweet Kind of Blue (2017), A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020), and collaborated with her husband Lukas Drinkwater for Room 822, released in 2022. Following the live recording Live at Brunel Goods Shed in 2022, Emily Barker released the studio album Fragile as Humans in 2024.

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