Amber Rubarth won the Grand Prize in this year’s NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest, giving her the great opportunity to record her newest release with Grammy-Award winning producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon).  The album is set for release on August 23, 2011 followed by nationally syndicated performance on NPR’s Mountain Stage.   Her songs have attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and a Sun Studio Session now airing nation-wide on PBS.

"With songs both quirky and endearingly candid, Amber Rubarth is a refreshing talent on the rise.  As illustrated on her third and latest LP, Good Mystery, she complements a gentle folk/pop vibe with a storyteller's engagement and the unassuming, often akward charm of a girl you wished lived next door." -BlogCritics.

At 21 years old, Amber decided to put aside her career as a chainsaw sculptor in Nevada in order to pursue music.  She taught herself guitar, started playing open mics, and began touring throughout the US, Europe and Japan. New fans told their friends, and soon her songs had received over 1.5 million plays on MySpace.  Many concerts began to sell out and she was asked to share the stage with such greats as Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and Lisa Loeb.  Rubarth now composes for films as well, most recently composing all music with Paul Brill for the highly acclaimed Sundance Film Festival winner "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work."  She is also one half of Brooklyn's buzz band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlightfeature.