Emily’s song ‘Beautiful’ was played on Radio 2 this morning.  The song is from her album ‘Bird Inside A Cage’.  You can listen again here (scroll to 01:33).

Emily is now back in the UK following her trip back to the Australian bush.  Her 2018 UK tour starts on 9 February at Dorchester Arts.  This may be her last UK tour for some time so please book your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

Dates include Crawley, Wotton-under-Edge, Thames Ditton, Fareham, New Milton, Bromsgrove, Stockton-on-Tees, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cricklade, Penzance, Worth Matravers, Bath, Cambridge, Penarth, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Barnoldswick, York, Carlisle, Biddulph, Crail, Glasgow and Newcastle.

If you have friends or family in any of these places, please do spread the word – we really appreciate your support.

Emily’s live performance of her song ‘Start Over Again’ on Clare Balding’s show in April last year was replayed on Radio 2 yesterday as ‘one of the highlights of 2017’.  You can listen again here (scroll to 52:00).

We’re off tomorrow to Australia and the place where Shaktu Records began – shack no.2 on a goat farm in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.  So this is just to wish you all very merry Christmas and a happy new year.  Thank you so much for all your support in 2017 – it’s been a great year. We’re looking forward to many more gigs in 2018.

We’re away in Australia over Christmas so if you want to buy any gifts direct from us we’re here until 6 December, but you can always order Emily’s CDs and books anytime from Amazon.co.uk.

Emily opened for Duke Special on his Ireland tour, playing The Belltable in Limerick, Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge, Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny and Siamsa Tire in Tralee.  Together with her bass player Christian Dunham, she accompanied Duke on two of his songs, and performed her own song ‘The Real World’ as part of his encore.  Emily will be back in Ireland for her own shows in the autumn 2018.  If you want her to keep you posted on dates, please join her mailing list.

A short video by Emily talking about the benefits of music for mental health has been posted by mental health charity SANE.  You can watch it here.

Emily performed at the World Congress of Psychiatry in Berlin this week as part of the Bipolar Roadshow organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bipolare Störungen (DGBS) – the German Society for Bipolar Disorder.  She also performed at Passionskirche in Berlin the night before, along with German singer-songwriter Martin Kolbe and author Sebastian Schlosser.

Just confirmed… Emily will be supporting Duke Special for 5 nights on his Ireland tour in October. Check out dates and booking links here.

Emily headlined Elder Stubbs Festival in Oxford for the mental health charity Restore, of which she is a patron.  The festival took place at Restore’s allotments in the Cowley part of the city.