woke up in a tree house this morning!!

** Hey Los Angeles!! ---> BIG Concert @ HOTEL CAFE this Thurs 4/30 @ 9pm!!! Ooooooh yeaaaahhhh!!

is country bumpkin today. dirtbike, ripped jeans + strawberries!

Reno was fuuuuunnnnn!!!! wish I could've stayed longer, thank you everyone for coming out!!

RENO TONIGHT!! maytan music 7pm starts, i'm on at 8! see you there, yaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I have fallen in like-you-a-lot with Portland, Oregon. CONCERT TONIGHT @ 8:30, I'm on 9:15!

whooaaaa we got a standing ovation at the aladdin theater!!! thank you portland! :) :) :)

wong +3, rubarth 0.

brisk morning, amtrak portland to seattle. reunited w. paper raincoat + vienna teng tonight @ triple door!

good day sunshine (bum ba dum bum)

run-ins with ryan montbleau + band in portland! = :D

No time to search the world around 'cause you know where I'll be found when I come aroooouuuunnnd.

the eagle has landed. seattle!

Next Week --> 4/23 PORTLAND, OR! 4/24 RENO, NV! 4/26 VACAVILLE, CA! 4/30 LOS ANGELES, CA! 5/2 The Vespa Experiment Begins.... http://ping.fm/U1XOS

just played culture shock festival w. the paper raincoat @ SUNY purchase... so fun! my first festival! no shoes!

is ultimate tigeR

boston with austin!! toad! tonight!! 7:30-9 www.toadcambridge.com

Oh, and--> Get your tix for FRIDAY'S BIG SHOW @ Drom (NYC) Now!!! Music + acrobats + jugglers.. yeahh!!!! http://ping.fm/ioh4z

designed 2 new cd covers ~ one for THIS FRIDAY @ Drom (NYC) - first 200 people get FREE Compilation CD... and one for my new EP w/ Adam Levy! whew!

mmmm rain smells nice!

and it's six in the morning/ gave me no warning/ i had to be on my waaaaayyyy.....

Amber Rubarth in MA, NY, WA, OR, NV and CA.... + Join the STREET TEAM!!

WOW WOw WOW woot woot yeaH.

I got to open for Colin Hay (of Men at Work) last Thursday at my favorite venue, Tupelo Music Hall, in New Hampshire. It was glorious and magical and SOLD OUT and I sold out of every last CD I had (!!). Colin was magnificent.

AND last weekend we got to open for Vienna Teng's first 3 CD Release shows with my band The Paper Raincoat, SOLD OUT at Somerville Theater (where U2 just played last month!) and Le Poisson Rouge, plus we played the beautiful Keswick Theatre! Check out Vienna's new record, it's beautiful (and produced by my Paper Raincoat partner in crime, Alex Wong). We get to do more openings for her along the west coast too, yay!

I love life. I feel so lucky. I am trying now to start doing things a little differently, more time for writing, living, and making a positive impact on the world at large. Being more pro-active in life. If you have ideas on how, send 'em my way!

bum bum bum... announcing the STREET TEAM!!!
Starting Wednesday I'm doing a whole bunch of shows that last for the next 5 weeks... including my Biggest Show in NYC so far (with circus acts!!) at DROM on Friday the 17th, plus a great one at Toad in Boston, the Culture Shock Festival at SUNY Purchase with The Paper Raincoat, and a bunch of west coast dates! I would love to see you.

So in celebration, we are launching the new street team (yayyy!!!) and I would love if you want to get involved. I am very lucky to have someone taking the reigns on captaining the team (thank you Amanda!), so we’ll have all kinds of ways available to you to help promote the shows, spread the word, and in appreciation we’ll be able to give you tickets, CDs, and more as our thank you. Yay yay yayyy!!! Sign up for the STREET TEAM by sending an email here streetteam@amberrubarth.com and we’ll give you all the details on how you can get involved.

And most importantly, THANK YOU! ie. merci beaucoup, duomo arigato gozaimasu, gracias, etc. I could not do this without you, and I’m glad now we have a proper way of thanking you for helping out with all of this!!

Life is good. I am writing a lot. Can’t wait to share some new songs with you. Even wrote a country tune the other day called "Wish We'd Gotten Drunk." Wow. Looking this week for some great duets, and still working on compiling songs for my cover song project when I have spare time. DO YOU KNOW ANY GREAT DUETS you can recommend I check out?

We also just announced THE VESPA EXPERIMENT which is going to be crazy and fun and help the environment and did I mention crazy and fun? It’s with two of my favoritest favorites, Jason Reeves and Brendan James. Oh boy oh boy. Up the California coast on (you guessed it).... Vespas! Camping at night, a whole bunch of traditional and non-traditional venues including campgrounds and beaches. If you have ideas for where else we can play, email info@amberrubarth.com and we’ll do our best to include them. We’ll be filming the whole thing too, and broadcasting daily webisodes so you can watch the whole thing from home!&nb! sp; I am getting my motorcycle license next week. No, seriously. Brought to you by Greenpeace and Vespa - we're going to do our part to stop Global Warming. More info here, more to be announced soon: http://MySpace.com/TheVespaExperiment. It's our first time doing this type of tour and we could really use your support to make it great. If you'd like to help us please write to vespaexperiment@gmail.com They'll hook you up with promo stuff and tickets to shows and cd's and more!

Okay. You rock.

Here are the dates coming up. It’s going to be spectacular. Lots of big shows!!!
For The Paper Raincoat dates, please visit http://MySpace.com/ThePaperRaincoat and you can sign up for that separate newsletter there too.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES!!

WED 4.15 (CAMBRIDGE, MA) @ Toad duo w/ Austin Nevins, fun! 7:30 - 9pm. Hugh McGowan is at 10pm too so stick around, he's fantastic.

FRI 4.17 (NEW YORK, NY) @ Drom – BIG SHOW!!!! With Acrobats + Jugglers! 7pm
If you are going to come to one of my shows, make it this one!!! Note the venue change, we are now holding this at the beautiful venue in the East Village, DROM. We will have acrobats, jugglers, and much much more. Featuring Paul Brill and his Gigantic Enormity, ambeR Rubarth, The Flying Change (CD Release) and MC Andrew Vladeck, Sound Sculpture by Ezekiel Honig. Doors at 7pm, 8pm start, I am on at 9pm but I would recommend getting there no later than 8. TICKETS ON SALE at www.dromNYC.com

4.23 (PORTLAND, OR) @ Backspace 8pm

4.24 (RENO, NV) @ Maytan Music - Tyler Stafford opens. 7pm

4.26 (VACAVILLE, CA) @ WineStyles - early show! 3pm

4.26 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) @ Hotel Utah Saloon - w/ Kyler England + Heather Combs! 7pm

4.30 (LOS ANGELES, CA) Hotel Café - BIG SHOW Yeah!! 9pm

THE VESPA EXPERIMENT Begins!
Featuring Jason Reeves, Brendan James + ambeR Rubarth ~ doing our part to stop global warming and spread happiness.

5.02 (HERMOSA BEACH, CA) Saint Rocke
5.03 (LOS ANGELES, CA) Roxy
5.05 (VENTURA, CA) The Lodge
5.07 (SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA) Downtown Brew w/ my favorite Jay Nash too, yahoo!
5.09 (SAN JOSE, CA) Private Event
5.10 (MONTEREY, CA) Monterey Live
5.12 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) Cafe Du Nord

EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE!!! Dates will be announced soon! Duo tour with Austin Nevins, June 13 – July 8th in Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the UK. We still have some to fill in, so if you have suggestions, send us an email! I heart Europe.

I think that is all for now. I heart you. Be well, and keep in touch.

K.I.T. yo. OMG.
okay, I need to stop drinking caffeine, it makes me crazy.

If you're into all the SOCIAL NETWORKING STUFF, here I am. Everyone's doing it, give in give in give in.

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Also, you can GET MY NEWEST CD, "NEW GREEN LINES" HERE! Back in stock, woot woot. www.CDBaby.com/Rubarth3

And of course on iTUNES right HERE.

xoxx happy mondaY.
.ambeR

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Please feel free to forward this on to anyone you know in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, and Europe!! :)

Check out the TOUR + JOIN THE STREET TEAM! http://ping.fm/U61xf

"i before e, except after c, or when sounding like a as in neighbor or weigh." what about WEIRD? weird.

Looking for some good duets.... what's your favorite?

i heart home recording.... it's like a big playground. today i've been doing vocal harmonies through a fender amp. sounds rad!!

windy sunny sundaY

Last night was incredible! SOLD OUT show, sold out of all my CDs (!!), Colin Hay was brilliant. Thank you Londonderry! ;)

OpeningforCOLINHAYtonight@tupelomusichall!!!(NH)

work tea green harvard square sunny yay

is rocking the Somerville Theater tonight with The Paper Raincoat, opening for Vienna Teng, yay!

born to run

yayyyy we got a new venue! 4/17 NYC Show (with acrobats, jugglers, etc.) is on @ DROM www.dromnyc.com - THANK YOU everyone for your help!

off to jersey to see jade!

The show will go on!! Found a beautiful new venue for April 17th NYC @ Drom. Thank you!! www.dromnyc.com

it sucks to have the rug pulled out from under you.... but it feels spectacular knowing we have so many friends. thanks everyone, we'll find something!! the show must go on!!!

Our HUGE NYC show at LE POISSON ROUGE on the 17th just cancelled on us!! The show must go on, but we're looking for a room. Ideas??? http://ping.fm/gTF9e

just finished making a banner for the vespa tour. that's right.

only 24 hours later and i already miss touring w ryan montbleau...

thank you northampton! thank you new hampshire! thank you boston!! and thank you amy for baking cupcakes. :)

well worth 11 minutes of your time http://ping.fm/Gu5ES

ambeR Rubarth song "Show Your Weakness" on ABC's Premiere of CUPID (New TV Sitcom) after Dancing with the Stars

My song "SHOW YOUR WEAKNESS" (Co-written by Marvin Etzioni & Amber Rubarth) is on the premiere episode of CUPID on ABC tonight!! March 31st, 10/9C (right after Dancing With The Stars!). Or rather "was" I suppose, I think it aired a few hours ago. I don't have a TV so I haven't seen it, but at least one person in the world has already written to me and said they heard it on there. I wonder what kind of scene they put it in?

This is pretty darn exciting for me. The only other thing I've had on network TV (well, I guess two things) was my song "NOVACAINE" (written by me, and I played guitar, wurly and sang on it) on NBC's show SAMANTHA, WHO? with Christina Applegate, in a scene where some lady is jealous and the song hits just as she opens her blouse to the dude and says "What, these aren't good enough for you?" Apparently the other lady likely had a better boob job, or perhaps she is not as nuts to do something like that. I don't understand TV, haven't had one since my mom threw it out when I was a kid because my dad watched too much Star Trek.

Oh yeah, and Real World Brooklyn also just aired (last week!) my song "ROUGH CUT" (The Paper Raincoat Remix) --co-written Amber Rubarth & Alex Wong, produced by the insanely talented Alex Wong) on REAL WORLD BROOKLYN. We both live in Brooklyn also, but apparently we are in the fake part of it because it is not anything like the show. Rough Cut played over a very dramatic phone call between Eric and his girlfriend. I hope it works out with them.

That is all for now. Thank you TV for liking my songs, they like you too (a lot).
Yay.
.ambeR

sxsw was rad
got to see lots of great music, play a few really great shows, meet a lot of great people, speak on my first panel (woohoo!), visit with a bunch of my favorite people all at the same time.
there were a few moments amidst the craziness of half hour band switches and crowded streets and barbeque that slowed down perfectly...
jason reeves' show at the driskill hotel, everyone sitting on the floor. jason is a wonderful writer.
ray don and his backwash band at the one 2 one, specifically the moment when he jumped up on the bar mid-song and tore off his overalls to reveal american flag underwear and sing about what his grandma taught him.
skipping around town lake (which is actually a city river) with jason and julie and makana, looking at turtles.
talking with my manager slim moon and realizing how cool it is to be working with people i admire so much.
and lots more...

i stayed up all friday night and hopped a plane from austin to panama city, florida at 6am. bart and elijah picked me up from the airport and we went back to the house to set up for the concert that night. they went all out, such lovely people and a beautiful setting.... outdoor concert, pre-sold out with the most people they've ever had there (yay!), under mossy trees in warm florida air. carrot cake. home cooked dinner from susan. concert was terrific, entire night felt connected and beautiful and honest, don't know what could be better.

my goal this week is to get out of my head. heart above head. i've found myself overthinking things lately. i even just overthunk writing out my goal.

instead, i will play more, lose myself more in what i'm doing.
waaaaaayeeeaahhhhhhh sing more and snap more and skip more and love more and dance more.

act naturally. play. edit later. isn't as good to edit during or you miss the experience.
hope you are well. i'm happy to be back in new york.

played a secret set last night at 1am with john elliott who is brilliant. it was fun. i've never seen such an enthusiastic audience that late on a sunday night, or maybe ever. i was smiling the whole time and it's always nice standing next to someone you admire so much, trading songs back and forth and then catching your jaw when they play their next song.

thank you everyone who came to the shows in austin and florida and new york, and of course to you for reading this. wow.
i love people (a lot).

morning has come.

i want to be great

i often have this tug of war with songwriting, jerking back and forth across the line of feeling like i just discovered something important and beautiful, and feeling like a 9 year old turning a paper in that doesn't deserve more than a B- (and that's if the teacher's feeling nice).

i want to be great. i want to write great songs. i want to have a repertoire that can evoke emotion from a room and take them on a journey that stays with them years later, that they can lock that moment into their memory and bring it up when they want to feel something. i want to add to the world in a way that lasts, and i want to do it through music. i want to have songs that people listen to quiet in their rooms at night when they are trying to get through hardships, and i want to have songs that you can turn up loud in the mornings and feel like it is a great day to be alive.

i've been on the receiving end of this musical goodness from some of my favorite artists (recent ones that come to mind are tom waits, john elliott, andi almqvist, josh ritter, louis armstrong, randy newman) and i want to do everything i can to be someone who creates music that means that much to someone else.

it doesn't happen by getting a record deal or a placement on grey's anatomy or being invited to a big showcase or being in the top 10 most listened to artists. all of those are wonderful and have nothing to do with it. a great song is or isn't there, and i don't know exactly what it takes but i know that it doesn't change its greatness based on exposure.

i do believe those things are terribly important, a great song unheard is sadder than a dropped ice cream cone (and that's sad). i've been incredibly lucky in my journey so far to have so many amazing people and opportunities that have stopped by, and i've appreciated and loved every one. right now i need to get back to the songs, i am yearning to know the guitar and piano more closely and write deeper and dig further inside and improve myself as a songwriter and musician and performer. get to the core, the honest good stuff.

these last few days i've locked myself inside and written, practiced or recorded just about every waking moment.

it is the most wonderful thing i've done in 4 years.

i'm going to do more, and am excited to have new songs to share with you soon.

i'll be staying off myspace and facebook for a while so i can practice and write fully without interruption. i feel like if i don't do it now i won't do it. can't wait to share what i dig up with you, i'll post little videos and songs every so often, so please subscribe to my youtube channel if you want to hear the in progress stuff. and i'll surely still check in here still every so often to send you some love. :)

http://youtube.com/moonlightoverthrewu

thank you for listening.
you are all remarkable.

more news soon. xO
.ambeR