Tuesday, May 15, 2012
We'll be hosting a rare Tuesday night performance by Amber Rubarth, Dave Eggar (cello) and Tim Snider (violin/guitar). Because we're doing this on a weeknight, we'll start at 8 pm and have just one long set. If you haven't experienced the Stone Room, this promises to be a great evening of wonderful singing and songwriting, with lush string arrangements.This trio will perform music from Amber Rubarth's new album, A Common Case of Disappearing, which came about after she took the Grand Prize in the 2010 NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest. Produced by Grammy-Award winning producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon) what was supposed to be a 5 song EP as a prize for the contest turned full length when they began recording together and found they had a wonderful creative chemistry. The album featuring duets with Jason Mraz and Jason Reeves debuted at #13 on the iTunes Singer Songwriter chart the week of its October 2011 release. Her songs have attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, NY Times, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and a Sun Studio Session airing nationwide on PBS.
"With songs both quirky and endearingly candid, Amber Rubarth is a refreshing talent on the rise. She complements a gentle folk/pop vibe with a storyteller's engagement and the unassuming, often akward charm of a girl you wished lived next door." -BlogCritics.
At 21 years old, Amber decided to put aside her career as a chainsaw sculptor in Nevada in order to pursue music. She taught herself guitar, started playing open mics, and began touring throughout the US, Europe and Japan. New fans told their friends, and soon her songs had received over 1.7 million plays on MySpace and she was named one of their top 100 Independent Artists. She has since shared the stage with such greats as Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Jason Mraz, Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and Lisa Loeb. Rubarth is now also composing for films, most recently writing and performing 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 feature.
Tim Snider’s younger
years were focused on classical music, then in high school, he discovered
guitar and delved into classic rock, blues, folk, funk, metal and grunge. Latin
guitar player Milton Merlos inspired Tim to return to violin and the two
traveled to Europe to explore flamenco, Cuban salsa, and West African music.
When Tim returned to the US in 2003, he enrolled in the jazz department at the
University of Nevada, Reno, and started Sol'Jibe, a group that blended American
roots, world beat, and Latin rhythms into an inspired sound dubbed "World
Rock.” In its eight-year history, Sol’Jibe studied at the National School of
Music in Havana, supported legendary artists such as Michael Franti, Robert
Randolph, and Steel Pulse, and played over 200 festivals and shows a year
across North America. Today, Tim pulls out all his talents in his solo shows,
creating looping layers of each instrument and vocals to produce a fresh,
inspired sound every time. He also is an international recording artist,
writing, producing, and recording string parts for rock and acoustic artists
around the world. As for his own recording, Tim is working on the follow-up to
his 2010 EP, The Delmar Sessions, on which he played all the instruments
and produced himself. 
