Erin Barra

Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Erin began her musical training on the piano bench at the tender age of 4. She has composed and performed her own music throughout her adolescence beginning with string quartets and even a fully produced Opera titled ‘Illusions’ that toured high schools on the West Coast through Utah Opera’s education program. She solidified her training and craft with a degree in songwriting from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. While at Berklee she was discovered by legendary songwriter John Oates, of Hall and Oates and together the two penned the song ‘Waiting’ for Barra’s first release in 2007. Since then Erin has had the opportunity to write and work with industry notables and Grammy award winning artists, engineers and producers such as Kathy Mattea, George Massenburg and Elliot Scheiner.

After making the move to New York in 2007 Erin recorded her first album, Soul Revolutions and immediately dove into the performance circuit; having appeared on New York stages of SOB’s, Solomon’s Porch, The Bitter End, The Bowery Poetry Club, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Cutting Room. Whether she is performing with her band, or solo, her performances are simultaneously intimate and electric. Playing a Hohner Melodica as one of the cornerstones of her live set along with an infectious energy, she creates something between a rock show and a storytelling: something that you won’t soon forget.