Amber Rubarth

AMBER RUBARTH Artist • Composer • Actor • Writer Amber Rubarth is a rare triple-threat: a critically acclaimed recording artist with a two-decade global touring career, a working film composer whose music has scored a Sundance-winning documentary, and a natural, camera-ready actor who carried a theater-released feature film as its co-lead in her acting debut. She is also currently developing her first book. Already fluent in all three lanes — acting, music, and literary — with press, festival wins, and sync placements to back up each one, Amber is actively expanding in all three directions at once. MUSIC CAREER & TOURING HIGHLIGHTS ● GrandPrizewinner,NPRMountainStageNewSongContest. ● EightstudioalbumsfeaturingacclaimedreleasesonThirtyTigers, Chesky Records (binaural hi-fi), and Gearbox Records, millions of listens on multiple original songs. ● HeadlineandsupporttoursacrossNorthAmerica,Europe, Japan, and South Africa, including performances at Carnegie Hall, Glastonbury Festival, and The Greek Theatre. ● Hand-pickedsupportforEmmylouHarris,Dr.RalphStanley, Richie Havens, Kenny Loggins, and Gipsy Kings. ● Co-writeswithotherartistsincludingJasonMraz(co-writtenduet performed at Carnegie Hall, another new song “Rated Ours” will be released (Autumn 2026) on his GRAMMY Museum performance, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), and more. ● Latestalbum,CoverCrop,self-producedatherhomestudioinNew York’s Hudson Valley — fifteen reimagined cover songs exploring our relationship to the natural world, currently being developed into a filmed docu-series. ● Amber’ssoloperformanceof“LosingMyReligion”wasreposted by R.E.M. on their page, calling it “a beautiful rendition.” “Knocking down walls with songs so strong they sound like classics from another era.” — Acoustic Guitar Magazine “You will leave with a crush on her.” — Boston Globe “I was attracted by the honesty and the humor in a song, aptly titled ‘You Will Love This Song.” — Bob Boilen, NPR FILM & TV — ACTING AMERICAN FOLK (2017/2018, Good Deed Entertainment) — Amber made her acting debut co-starring in this road-trip drama. The film swept festival awards on the circuit and a national theater run, followed by Hulu and Amazon Prime Video (currently), with national trade coverage. ● TheHollywoodReportercalledit“superb...aheartfelthomageto American folk music.” ● Ambercomposedtwosongsforthefilm(includingwhatwas chosen as trailer song) and is featured throughout soundtrack alongside John Prine, David Grisman, and Jerry Garcia — rare instance of first-time actor authoring music inside her own film. ● Amberisespeciallyvaluableforanyprojectcenteredonmusic, Americana, or biographical storytelling. ● AmericanFolkreceived9winsand13nominations,including Amber winning Best Actress – Jury Prize award (Scruffy City) and the highly-acclaimed Golden Thumb Winner (2023) at Ebert Fest (Roger Ebert’s festival). “Two wondrous new voices” — Rolling Stone, American Folk single premiere with Joe Purdy COMPOSING & SONG PLACEMENTS — FILM & TV Alongside her acting, Amber has a genuine composing and sync track record, both under her own name and through her side projects The Paper Raincoat and Applewood Road. ● JOANRIVERS:APIECEOFWORK—Amberco-wroteoriginal music and score (with Paul Brill) for this Sundance Film Festival winning documentary, one of the most acclaimed documentaries of its year. ● DESERTRUNNERS—Wroteandperformedend-creditsong“The Edge” for this award-winning documentary. ● FANTASTICFUNGI:RE-IMAGINE—Ledandco-produceda 24-artist companion album featured alongside the highly acclaimed documentary. THE PAPER RAINCOAT: Amber Rubarth Alex Wong ● THELASTSONG(Disney,starringMileyCyrus&LiamHemsworth) — The Paper Raincoat “Brooklyn Blurs” featured on soundtrack. ● ONETREEHILL(TheCW),GOOGLE,AQUAFINA—Original music featured in multiple television and ad features. ● PasteMagazinenamedThePaperRaincoat“BestofWhat’sNext,” writing that “the world might be a little better if everyone heard this record.” ● AmberRubarthandAlexWong(ThePaperRaincoatfounders)wrote a new, original musical (book lyrics), presented in a sold-out limited run by Theatre Works (Berkeley, CA). — Broadway World APPLEWOOD ROAD: Amber Rubarth, Emily Barker, Amy Speace ● Amber’soriginalarrangementofthetraditionalsong“MyDear Companion” performed with her trio Applewood Road for the BBC documentary Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou, featuring her work directly alongside three of the most important voices in American music history. ● DebutalbumnamedtoTheTelegraph’sBestAlbumsof2016. ● UKtouringincludedsupportforMaryChapinCarpenter, Glastonbury Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival. ● Amber’soriginalarrangementofR.E.M.’s“LosingMyReligion”asa bonus live track from Union Chapel (London) has drawn more than a million streams on Spotify. ● Amberwrote7ofthe13originalsongsonApplewoodRoad album (including top 2 songs each with over 1 million plays). THE BOOK Amber is a gifted prose writer — fans and other authors have long urged her toward long-form writing, and she is now actively developing her first book telling her unique story behind the scenes. Before she ever stood beside Jason Mraz at a single microphone, singing a song they'd written together to a sold-out Carnegie Hall, Amber was a young girl at the piano, writing songs as a way to process grief, particularly around her mother’s mental illness and departure. That private artistry became her sanctuary: first at the piano, performing only when no one was home; then, at 17, a move to Carson City, Nevada to apprentice as a chainsaw sculptor, learning to find shape and life inside raw, felled wood. Four years later she traded the chainsaw for a guitar, living out of her car and on trains, following roads and rail lines across the US and Europe as she performed her original songs. Along the way, a director found a video of her singing online and cast her to star in a feature film. Other important stops included weeks spent in the South African bush, and in plant medicine ceremonies that helped transform survival into healing and awaken her interconnectivity with the natural world. Her memoir traces this unlikely arc — like something dormant finally reaching light -– from a protective space of hiding into true connection and offering. ___________________________________________________ CONTACT: info@AmberRubarth.com