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Ann Savoy
Accordion - Guitar - Fiddle - Vocals
Ann
Savoy, is a musician, an author, a record producer, and a
photographer.
As a musician, besides recording and traveling with "
The Magnolia Sisters", she recently recorded a Grammy nominated CD with legendary pop idol Linda Ronstadt, "Adieu False Heart". She appears with her son Joel in the film
Divine
Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood and performs three of the twelve
cuts on the accompanying soundtrack on Sony
Music. She has played guitar, fiddle, and accordion and traveled
throughout the world with her husband accordionist Marc Savoy and
fiddler Michael Doucet in the Savoy
Doucet Cajun Band. Recently she and husband Marc have
begun to perform with their talented children in the Savoy Family
Band. She has recorded thirteen CDs on the Arhoolie, Rounder, and Vanguard
labels. Her newest CD of Hot Club de Paris swing jazz, Ann Savoy and Her Sleepless Knights, was released May 15, 2007.
Ann
has appeared in many documentaries on the subject of Cajun music,
most recently PBS series American
Roots Music, and with her husband was the subject of renowned
filmmaker Les Blank’s film, Marc
and Ann. She also works as an record producer for Vanguard
Records, for whom she produced the Grammy nominated tribute to Cajun
music, Evangeline
Made, featuring, among others, pop and folk idols Linda Ronstadt,
John Fogerty, Richard and Linda Thompson, Nick Lowe, and Rodney
Crowell performing traditional Cajun tunes. Her new project for
Vanguard, a tribute to Creole and Zydeco, entitled Creole
Bred , featuring Cyndi Lauper, Taj Mahal, The Campbell brothers,
David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Michelle Shocked, Tom Tom Club, and
Sweet Honey In The Rock, came out in May, 2004.
In
2003 she produced a CD entitled Water From the Well for the state
of Louisiana showcasing all the musical styles found within the
Atchafalaya Heritage region. This CD can be obtained by sending
a donation to Adriane Kramer, Atchafalaya
Trace Commission, Dept of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
in Baton Rouge.
As
a writer, she is the author of the Botkin award winning book, Cajun
Music, A Reflection of a People, a book which chronicles the history
of Cajun and Zydeco music through interviews, biographies, historic
and current photographs, and song transcriptions. She wrote the
chapter on Cajun and Zydeco in the recently released book, American
Roots Music, Rolling Stone Press, as well as authoring numerous
articles on Cajun music and historic CD booklets. Ann has photographed
the fecund, stark beauty of Louisiana and has a huge body of photographic
work which she has yet to reveal.
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