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Parua Bay folk singer attends largest international folk gathering

Danica MacLean
By Danica MacLean
Multimedia Journalist, Newstalk ZB·Northern Advocate·
16 Feb, 2018 05:00 PM2 mins to read

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Parua Bay resident Erin Cole-Baker is putting her best foot forward at the Folk Alliance International Conference. Photo/Paper and Pearl Photography

Parua Bay resident Erin Cole-Baker is putting her best foot forward at the Folk Alliance International Conference. Photo/Paper and Pearl Photography

A Northland folk artist is hoping a trip to a large folk conference will help her secure some regular gigs in the United States.

Parua Bay resident Erin Cole-Baker is one of four New Zealand artists attending the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

The conference is billed as the world's largest gathering of the folk music community and industry, attended by over 2500 people.

Mrs Cole-Baker is flying the Kiwi flag alongside Anika Moa, Milly Tabak from The Miltones and Emily Fairlight.

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The songwriter and musician is at the conference which started on Wednesday and runs until February 18.

Mrs Cole-Baker said the conference is attended by all types of people from the industry - booking agents, festival bookers, house concert bookers, people who licence music for TV, radio and movies, performers and many more.

"Everything you can imagine in the music industry. They're all trying to find new talent."

She had nine "showcases" booked - a 30 to 45-minute performance where anyone can see and hear her.

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She will be performing alongside her friend Chris Beland from California. The pair will take turns singing their own songs, with the other singing the harmony and playing guitar.

"Going to this conference I'm hoping will help me make better contacts to tour the west coast of the US.

"I'd like to be able to go back once a year and bring my family and be on tour and have it pay for itself."

Mrs Cole-Baker was also hoping to sell a couple of songs.

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The 36-year-old was born in California and moved to NZ when she was 6, and grew up in Whangarei Heads.

She moved to Oregon for six years and spent some time performing there. She moved back to New Zealand to start her family five and a half years ago and has spent most of that time raising her two daughters.

She described her genre as folk rock and she usually performs with a band - but she is the only one attending the conference.

In the past year she has recorded a new album, titled Till the feeling's right.

"It's not released yet but I'll have it at the Folk Alliance to hand out to people."

She plans to officially release her album around April.

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