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About Me

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emay has been booking musicians in the Pittsburgh and Boston regions since 2003.
Performance artists emay has worked with include: Erik Mongrain, Jalsah, Ishtar, Raquy and the Cavemen, Buddy Nutt, Chai Baba, Zafira Dance Company, Luca Mondaca, Phat Man Dee, Loop 2,4,3, Electric Junkyard Gamelan Orchestra, Soma Mestizo, Machete, Consider the Source, Elliot Sussman, Emily Pinkerton, Night Dancers, Uni & Her Ukelele, Ion Sound and many more.
Venues include Your Inner Vagabond, Club Cafe, Modern Formations, the Rex, the HKan, Te Cafe, and more. If you would like a show in Pittsburgh through emay music, please contact emaymusic at gmail dot com. This is far preferred to contacting this myspace account.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/27/2006
Band Website: www.erikamay.net
Band Members: I am EMay. I play music : guitar (12/6 strings, acoustic and electric), bass (fretted and fretless electric, and acoustic ~ not upright... yet...), hand drums (egyptian and turkish style darbouka, riq, frame drum, and occasionally djembe or davul. i do not play the bongos.), piano/keys....

Here are my bands:

BETWEEN LIBERTIES ~ soulful indy-rock songwriting trio

KIRIK HAVA ~ contemporary turkish folk music & percussion ensemble

AVIENANI ~ tribal/doom fusion

& Sometimes I perform solo, doing that chick with a guitar thing.

& yet other times, I play with other musicians, either just jamming or as a hired gun musician. Recently, I have worked with:
Agnes Wired for Sound
Bruce Hoffman
Opposites Attract
Sikes!
And a lovely choir of chanting chanteuses

Visit www.ErikaMay.net for all the other gritty details.
& here's some other photos and other weird things I do:

Between Liberties Photos:
Avienani Photos:
.. View Album :
Emay Music Events photography:

PyroPix

Bellybellydance pix:

Influences: the atlantic . sandstone lane . hookah . romeo . the barter system . I-70 . Idaho . armpits . eden mcnutt . the lights . pittsburgh . the bud, the pot & the spider . dorks . alice in chains . smiling . incense . leather . u-hauls . flushing . watching things grow . cooperatives . fire . angels . thoughts of leaving . wiggly bellies . one love . boston . miracles . collecting debts . throwing things away

Tool

Katatonia

Sigur Ros

Michael Franti

Radiohead

Nina Simone

Alice in Chains

Citizen Cope

Rabih Abou Khalil

As Human:
Zafira Dance Company

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Between LIberties DEBUT ALBUM - celebrate with us on February 20th!

Yes, you heard me right! I'm so happy to announce that Between Liberties has produced an album! We are selling them at a discount at our CD release party at Club Cafe on February 20th. Tickets are als...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:16:00 GMT

K1r1k Hava and our upcoming performances

A fun and exciting new addition to Pittsburgh's music community, K1r1k Hava performs traditional Turkish folk music. The group includes the all-star cast of Nicholas Ragheb, Phillip Coatsworth, Luke W...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:10:00 GMT

BL album // solo album

    soon YOU ~ yes YOU ~ can own a copy of Between Liberties' first album. We've been painstakingly putting it together since March, but are finishing up the few remaining tracks and lo...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:36:00 GMT

want my band - Between Liberties - to play your city?

This is an awesome, free, spam-free service that lets me know that you like our music! SO if you do, demand us in your city!xoemay
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Between Liberties plays Zenith Tea Room’s Brunch - this sunday 1/13!

That's it! Sunday, Jan 13 @ 11am-2pm, during their delicious vege-friendly brunchtime.Zenith is at 26 & Sarah in South Side of Pittsburgh PA
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:38:00 GMT

Emay’s Band! YIV stuff! Call for Artists!

UPDATE to this email which went out yesterday.... Colorful Speech won the finalist spot in Jamie's Acoustic Classics Challenge. Come see us perform in the Finals, Friday November 9th at Jamies in Dorm...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:16:00 GMT

& I’ll be singing woo hoo! woo hoo! woo hoo hoo hoo!

So I have left my day job, reassigned my paradigm, and have started jamming with a few projects. I'll be singing with Colorful Speech, a duo that just happen to be two of my favorite guys ever. They w...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:07:00 GMT

Nicholas Ragheb workshop at Your Inner Vagabond

Stayin true to the Pittsburgh Roots, may I present to you a man well on his way to becoming a world-class master percussionist:Your Inner Vagabond presents: A Special Engagementwith Nicholas Ragheb, M...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:53:00 GMT

Your Inner Vagabond - come visit!

Hey y'all A heads up for those of you from Pittsburgh or not so much.... In November we'll be opening up Your Inner Vagabond on Butler Street. YIV is a coffeehouse and world lounge. We'll have live mu...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:52:00 GMT

june updates

Hello everybody,June will be a *short* month for Emay: rather, very very busy...However, very little of that is performative!I will be attending the weddings of Chris and Becky Beck (yes, that'sright)...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 13:35:00 GMT