It doesn't take long to realize when you go to see a Liz Stahler show you are in for a whirlwind of emotions. From her charismatic stage presence and comical anecdotes to the heartbreaking lyrics of lost self, you are not sure whether to laugh, cry or both all at once. Very quickly, you know she was meant to do this and this is exactly where she wants to be.

In 1999, she was asked to open up for Dan Bern in front of 300 people. This show gained Stahler a new respect from fellow artists and people in the local industry. The following year after Liz Stahler's debut performace at Club Passim's in the cutting edge of the Campfire, the Boston Phoenix named Liz a new local favorite along with artists Colleen Sexton and Steve Tannen.

Growing up around Boston introduced Stahler to the folk scene and great singer songwriters Patti Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Jonatha Brooke. Their influence is prevalent throughout her music, but you can also feel the Dylan, Radiohead, and Cold Play influences alter her vocals to feel the rawness. Liz Stahler's songs are exceptionally unique in their language but also relate to feelings that everyone has had. In her song "Didn't You Know", she writes, "When you have words on the tip of your tongue/your lips start to twitch/and I wish that I was the air in your lungs." Liz Stahler has been recognized for her accomplishments in songwriting by winning awards such as The Annual Songwriting Contest during the Berklee five week program and being invited to perform at an Evening with Berklee Songwriters - "A night with Berklee's most talented and accomplished writers."

Liz Stahler has meticulously created a debut EP both telling her story and inspiring her audience to understand theirs. For many years, Liz has been making her rounds at the college venues throughout New England at UVM, Bowdoin, Smith, Umass Amherst and Mount Holyoke. She has shared the stage with the familiar artists Dan Bern, Erin Mckeown, Jess Klein and Kris Delmhorst. She has also played collaborative events like the Estrogen Festival, NOW conference and the Club Passim Campfire three different times. This EP, Turn the lights down, takes Stahler's whispery vocals, enrapturing them into a trancelike undertone perfectly integrating with the guitar to create her own classification of folk roots-rock genre.