SpudShow 94 - Emma Cunningham

SpudShow 94

Artist - Emma Cunningham

Track 1 - Fault Line

Track 2 - Cherie BomB

Track 3 - How It Goes

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Bio Emma Cunningham is a singer, musician and songwriter from Dublin, Ireland. Spoon-fed on a diet of rock, folk, country and trad, (she is named after Emmylou Harris) and surrounded by music from her very beginnings, the path she would follow seemed pre-destined! As a child she loved her recorder and piano lessons, her various Bontempi organs, a xylophone, making up stories, writing poems, acting out plays, dressing up and performing for anyone that would listen. She won her first prize for singing when she was 10 for a duet with her younger sister of the Mamas and Papas song California Dreamin. Her love of all things musical grew even more and a trip with her parents to see Emmylou Harris in the National Stadium when she was 12 only fuelled her passion. It was her mother who was the first to take up guitar lessons in the house and shared what she had learned after each lesson. Emma was hooked, and on her 15th birthday was given the offer of a holiday in Italy or her first guitar as a present - the choice was an obvious one! Over the years her record collection grew, and diaries, books and school journals were graced by her favourite lyrics. Her school graduation became the public debut for one her self-penned songs. A job in a music shop opened her up to a world of musical opportunity. The wealth of music at her finger tips provided many new influences and the new contacts and friends she made set her on the road to regularly performing in Dublin. Her world revolved around (and stills does) everything musical and she learned the art of recording and producing her own sounds. She began seriously writing her own songs and music and had every opportunity to mature as a singer and performer during this time. She also turned her hand to a bit of promotion when she set up her own singer/songwriter nights (Acoustica) which gave new acoustic acts the opportunity to play more than the usual two or three songs afforded to them by open mic / talent nights. Her growing presence on the circuit attracted the attention of Hot Press and lead to invitations to perform on radio shows including 98fm, Anna Livia and Near FM and her song Sometimes being featured on Phantom fm. This year Emma fulfilled a major dream of hers when she performed 3 gigs in Nashville, Tennessee. Emma performs regularly in some of the many venues Dublin has to offer. Live, her set comprises of original material and she always throws in a well-chosen cover version. She spends her time writing, gigging, collaborating, recording at home and updating her self-designed and administered website. She is also a student of Film, Literature and Drama in Dublin city....be sure to leave a message if you like what you hear!!!

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