1. Amber Rubarth has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea and South Africa.
16 Facts About Amber Rubarth
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Chesky Records released two binaural albums recorded live at St Elias Church in which Amber Rubarth collaborated with cellist Dave Eggar.
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Amber Rubarth has composed songs and scored for films, including collaborations with Paul Brill for Sundance Film Festival winner Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work and the end credit song for the documentary Desert Runners.
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Amber Rubarth taught herself to play guitar and began performing at local open mic nights and coffee shops.
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Amber Rubarth toured with Glen Phillips as his support act and side musician on vocals, electric guitar, keys, and electric bass.
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Amber Rubarth has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, and Japan.
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In May 2009 Amber Rubarth joined Jason Reeves and Brendan James to create "The Vespa Experiment," a musical tour along the California coast in which the three artists traveled on Vespa mopeds, camped, and did community awareness activities for 13 days to support environmentalism.
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In 2017 Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket invited Amber Rubarth to join his US tour as the opening act as well as part of his trio for which she played bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, and vocals.
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Amber Rubarth explained in an interview with The Boston Globe that her solo work tends to be more personal, whereas the Paper Raincoat's songs are more imaginative, involving fictional characters Their debut EP was featured as an iTunes Indie Spotlight Artist.
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Amber Rubarth played the lead role of Joni in the feature film American Folk, which was released in the US through Good Deed Entertainment on January 26,2018.
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Amber Rubarth received an Ebertfest "Golden Thumb" award in April 2023.
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Amber Rubarth was awarded Grand Prize in the NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest for "Letter from My Lonelier Self".
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Amber Rubarth's song "Washing Day", written with Adam Levy, won 1st Place in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition in the Lyrics Only category judged by Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, and Robert Smith.
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Amber Rubarth said he was "attracted by her honesty and humor".
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Amber Rubarth was listed No 16 in the UK "Music to Die For's Top 100 Favourite Female Vocalists of the Decade".
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Unfinished Art EP - Limited edition handmade version of her "Unfinished Art" EP consisted of an original blind contour painting by Amber Rubarth pressed onto a hanging handmade canvas with the album and liner notes inserted in the back.