About

Born and raised in the elderly Appalachians of northeastern Tennessee, Erin Dalton is a well-seasoned vocalist, songwriter, educator, pianist, composer, and arranger. Immersed in a wide range of music (her father is an Appalachian story-songwriter and her mother, a classically-trained pianist/organist), she began honing her skills by ear and in formal training at a very early age.

Continuing on a path of musical endeavors, Erin went on to Gardner-Webb University, where she spent four years in intensive piano, voice and composition courses. As a senior thesis, she created a one-act musical, "Work, In Progress," along with the university's theater department. The musical had two performances in a 200-seat theater with packed houses for each performance. Dalton graduated in the spring of 2008 with a B.M. in Music Composition.

For the past decade, Erin has been traveling and teaching everything from elementary school music to hip hop songwriter/performance courses for nonprofits and organizations, hopping from North Carolina to Pennsylvania to northern India. She spent five years as the director of music camps for The Birthplace of Country Music. She has created string arrangements for a wide range of artists, including Amythyst Kiah and Bill and the Belles, and also spent a year studying jazz piano with renown composer and Steinway artist, Chad Lawson.

Erin currently resides in Johnson City, TN, where she is a music educator, arranger, and frontwoman of Charlie Maples.