Background
Emily"s childhood was spent dancing to music, rather than performing it, in her mother"s dance school. She grew up assuming everyone knew how to do a highland fling and weekends were spent dancing at ceilidhs rather than nightclubs.
Emily"s childhood was spent dancing to music, rather than performing it, in her mother"s dance school. She grew up assuming everyone knew how to do a highland fling and weekends were spent dancing at ceilidhs rather than nightclubs.
She went to school at Wallace Hall Academy and has a degree in Scottish music from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. But it wasn"t until a solo with the school choir in her late teens that Emily discovered her singing voice. She moved to Glasgow in 1999 where she gained an Honours degree in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
With principal study of Scots Song, she also studied accordion and piano.
Recent television appearances include:
British Broadcasting Corporation Songs of Praise
Transatlantic Sessions 4
Scotland"s Hogmanay Live (broadcast live from Glasgow).