Emmy Ryan / Broken Creek

About Emmy Ryan / Broken Creek

Emmy Ryan

Emmy Ryan wants to tell you a story. Her songs carry truth like a heartbeat — stories of love, loss, belonging, and the land that holds us. Following in the footsteps of troubadours like Joan Baez and Paul Kelly, Emmy sings with fierce tenderness about what it means to find home, to face history, and to stay open-hearted in a complicated world. Rooted in the folk tradition of storytelling, her music lives at the meeting place of protest and poetry. Emmy Ryan & The Hard Times weave deft musicianship on mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar with a voice that sits somewhere between a lullaby and a reckoning, inviting you in — not just to listen, but to feel.

Emmy's songs have earnt recognition in the International Songwriting Competition, the NT Music Awards, the Australian Bluegrass and Old Time Music Songwriting Prize, and the Listen Up Music Awards.

Broken Creek

Broken Creek create reimagined Australiana on banjo, guitar, fiddle and voice, exploring stories from Australia’s past and present. They perform original songs about small-town Australia, tunes inspired by the land and subversive interpretations of post-colonial bushballads. Named for the creek Erin grew up near, ‘Broken Creek’ signals a love of traditional folk music with an adventurous musical bent to “break” with the same old ways of playing folk music.

Broken Creek share their music and stories with audiences across the country, from stages at festivals to support slots with Australian music legends. Broken Creek was featured on Season 6 of the SBS/NITV show ‘Going Places with Ernie Dingo’, sharing their love of Australian folk music, and they were named Duo of the year at the 2025 Australian Folk Music Awards.