Recent Grand Prize winner of this year’s NPR Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, Amber Rubarth is a singer-songwriter who has attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR’s All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, a Sun Studio Session now airing nationwide on PBS and many TV shows such as One Tree Hill.

- An Evening with Amber Rubarth

This self-taught and self-made artists started playing at age 21. Through word of mouth and tours in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, Amber soon had her songs receive over 1.6 million plays on MySpace. She has shared the stage with such greats as Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Colin Hay, Martin Sexton, and Lisa Loeb. Rubarth now composes for films as well, most recently composing all music with Paul Brill for the highly acclaimed Sundance Film Festival winner Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. She is also one half of Brooklyn’s buzz band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlight favorite.