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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, will be 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.