Emily Jones

Emily Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer from the Endless Mountain region of northeastern Pennsylvania, USA. She has played with many musicians around the globe and has appeared as a guest and collaborative artist on several albums, in addition to releasing three of her own. Raised in a musical and creative family, Emily began her study and exploration of music at the age of four playing melodies on the piano and composing her own songs. Her studies took her to explore rhythms and a variety of genres with her percussionist father.

Raised in a musical and creative family, Emily began her study and exploration of music at the age of four playing melodies on the piano and composing her own songs. Her studies took her to explore rhythms and a variety of genres with her percussionist father. Favorite genres to peruse included Classical, Folk, Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, and Progressive Rock from the 70s.

At 9 years old Emily became fascinated with wind instruments, she began to study standard notation and learn to play the recorder. At the age of 12 she also began studying Voice, performing as an alto and contralto in a variety of choirs and choral groups, both accompanied and a cappella for 14 years. During this time she also went back to her first instrument - the piano followed shortly thereafter by acoustic guitar.

Today, with 32 years of a musical journey thus traveled, Emily Jones composes, produces, records, and mixes her own music and works on projects for others in her own studio. Vocal talent, the ability to learn and perform on many instruments, Music composition & arrangement are among her greatest musical strengths.

Emily's original repertoire of piano, recorder, voice, and acoustic guitar has expanded to include electric guitar, bass guitar, Chinese yueqin, African djembe, Irish bodhr?n, Fujara, Australian didgeridoo, Native American flute, several bamboo flute styles, and the Irish tin whistle.

Eclectic and beautiful, Emily's lush vocals weave in and around her creative instrumental harmonies and earthy rhythms creating a musical landscape. She has a particular knack for creating music that is hard to place in any certain genre, but it is clear that she is versed in and influenced by many styles of music - notably: world, fusion, rock, acoustic, ambient, orchestral, instrumental, progressive, and folk.

**Please note, there is another Emily Jones, a bossa-jazz-dj who recently did a project with Gerardo Frisina.