Emma Cook writes from the heart, and is finding her way to yours.

Her music marks a moment. Emma will draw you in, singing about spice racks, motherhood, moon phases, climate change, getting older, and every feeling in between. A “formidable songwriter and instrumentalist”, Cook has a commanding and expressive vocal range (Seven Days VT). With powerful presence, her vulnerability and humor onstage reflect her delightfully melancholy experience of being human.

She grew up rooted in the Michigan folk and traditional music community. She’s been learning at the piano for almost 30 years and strumming the guitar for just over two decades. She wrote her first song at 17, and she’s released four albums with different projects as an independent artist, along with six singles in the past 13 years.

Emma is still connected to her Michigan roots, though she currently resides in Vermont. In her Burlington community she is a music educator and children’s musician, in addition to her work as a songwriter and performer. She is currently in the studio working on her first solo project in over a decade, and in late 2024 she successfully completed her first crowdfunding campaign raising over $15K for the album project.

Emma believes in the power of music to connect us. She’s received this gift of connection. She sees performance and songwriting as an offering. As an open book, she offers connection as she sings about the complications and paradox of being human, becoming a parent, re-parenting herself, moving through grief and depression, working toward stillness, and through it all being open to joy.

When not making music you’ll find Emma with her family, in the garden, practicing yoga, riding bikes, skiing in the mountains, making food, doing laundry, swimming, or reading.