Emily Elbert & Liz Longley February 17, 2012

Emily Elbert
Dallas native Emily Elbert studied piano as a child before moving on to guitar when she was 14. She is a young performer, with an old soul. She easily moves throughout the genres of jazz, pop, soul and folk. Her songs feature strong melodies, straight-to-the-heart vocals, and intricate guitar work. Emily spent the past four years at Berklee College of Music, and during that time has played hundreds of shows across America and as far away as Scotland, Puerto Rico, Saint-Barthélemy, Peru, Italy, Spain, Israel, Turkey and Greece. She was selected as one of the Top Ten College Women, 2010, by Glamour Magazine and has won songwriting awards such as Mountain Stage / New Song and Scotland’s Burnsong Intenational. She is currently working on her third CD, a full-band live album, due in early 2012.

Liz Longley
Nashville-based Liz Longley is a Berklee College of Music graduate, quickly moving up in the world of singer-songwriters. Her ability to write well-crafted songs earned her a win in the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Competition, as well as the International Acoustic Music Awards. She has opened for the likes of Livingston Taylor, Nanci Griffith, Lori McKenna, Jonathan Edwards and Shawn Colvin. John Meyer says her music is “gorgeous, just gorgeous”. She has recently been added to the rotation on Sirius XM’s Coffeehouse Channel. Her writing style is poetic… her songs are personal and emotionally engaging… her highly textured vocals will stop you in your tracks. Longley describes herself as a “folk-pop singer-songwriter who likes to do a bit of jazz, blues, and some scatting if I get the chance.’’