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fivebyfive’s latest album features the storytelling power of multi-instrumentalist/composer Emily Pinkerton. Ephemera Ballads - composed by Emily and commissioned by fivebyfive with support from New York State Council on the Arts - draws on library collections and local lore to bring ghost tales of the Hudson Valley to life over sparkling banjo and shimmering textures.

Emily Pinkerton’s ballads and banjo experiments grow in a lush space between folk and chamber music. She is a founding member of the old-time vocal trio The Early Mays (International Acoustic Music Award Winners, NPR’s Mountain Stage Feature Performers).  Past chamber music projects include “Rounder Songs” (New Amsterdam Records) and “Looking for Violeta,” a folk opera about Chilean musician Violeta Parra. Emily’s lifelong love of teaching brought her to Albany in 2018 to teach Songwriting at The College of Saint Rose.

If your in Rochester on the 27th catch our live performance of Ephemera Ballads. Details on our event page.