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Amber Rubarth sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on March 27th, 2017. For more info visit: http://www.amberrubarth.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin

Amber Rubarth has a playful simplicity and insightfulness to her musings on life that has connected with people around the world. She has performed in villages across South Africa and small clubs in Japan, at Carnegie Hall, and backed up by a full chamber orchestra, as well as in hundreds of clubs and theaters throughout Europe and the US. "She has developed a unique gift of knocking down walls with songs so strong they sound like classics from another era." -Acoustic Guitar Magazine. The word has spread organically around her self-released albums, attracting glowing features from The Huffington Post, NPR, and BBC Radio. She has been hand-picked to open tours for songwriting legends Emmylou Harris, Kenny Loggins, Richie Havens, Marc Cohn, Loudon Wainwright III and Dr. Ralph Stanley and was awarded Grand Prize in NPR's Mountain Stage New Song Contest. A live recording of Rubarth from Memphis' legendary Sun Studio is currently airing on PBS.

Rubarth's eighth album, Wildflowers in the Graveyard, is a collection of songs centered around a theme of fluidity of life-death-rebirth in nature and relationships. It opens with her raw vocals floating over a finger-picked guitar, "There are wildflowers springing up at the graveyard / An oak tree that's been standing here so long / And dandelions pretty in the sunshine / 'Til the wind blows and they're gone." All songs are self-penned and recorded in analogue straight to 2" tape with engineer and co-producer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes) in her hometown of Nashville. The record has a bold magnetic energy drawing you in to each nuance and detail, revealing layers with the elegance of a wildflower in a land of people busily setting off fireworks.

In addition to her solo music, Rubarth has enjoyed many collaborations in film and music. She has scored and composed songs for films including the highly acclaimed Sundance Film Festival winner Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (with Paul Brill) and the award-winning documentary Desert Runners. This year she made her acting debut co-starring alongside folk troubadour Joe Purdy in the new feature film September 12th, which will be premiered at the Santa Barbara Int'l Folk Festival in Feb 2017. She also co-founded Brooklyn indie band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlight featured in commercials for Google and Aquafina, as well as recent UK harmony folk trio Applewood Road, whose debut album is named in The Telegraph's Best Albums of 2016.

Wildflowers in the Graveyard will be released independently in the US on March 10, 2017 with a full international release in Summer 2017.