Emmy Ryan

Emmy Ryan offers a new kind of Australian folk-country informed by bluegrass, old time, and Irish traditions — honest, vulnerable, with eyes wide open. Her award-winning songs carry truth like a heartbeat — stories of love, loss, belonging, and the land that holds us. A modern day troubadour based between Naarm/Mebourne and Mpartnwe/Alice Springs, Emmy sings with fierce tenderness about what it means to find home, face history, and stay open-hearted in hard times. Rooted in the folk tradition of storytelling, her music lives at the meeting place of protest and poetry. Emmy’s songs and tunes blend her passion for Australian, Appalachian, and Irish folk music with her jazz-informed sensibilities. Pairing deeply confessional lyrics with acoustic arrangements featuring Emmy’s soulful voice and mandolin playing, these songs and tunes offer something new, unique, and personal.