Strawberry Runners is a folk band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emi Night. Their music spans folk, Americana, chamber pop, and indie rock with compositions anchored in guitar and voice and colored by varied instrumentation — concert harp, accordion, pedal steel, dulcimer, ocarina, and flute — layered under lush vocal harmonies and plain, unflinching lyricism.

 

Night draws influence from her Appalachian and Cajun heritage, her youth in Catholic church choirs, listening to pop country radio, teen years in Midwest punk, emo, and alt-pop scenes, and recent years in the art pop and folk scenes of NYC.

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Her songs explore grief and connection through character studies, imagined conversations, and poems for loved ones and strangers. She speaks to the close entanglement of love, power, and control within relationships.

 

Night is a recipient of the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music & Theater, awarded in support of Strawberry Runners' forthcoming album, Goodnight Lou.

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Live, the band performs intimate and direct arrangements, with emphasis on lyricism and vocal melody.