AnnaLee Scully

listen to my new song "miss you" http://www.myspace.com/makinsausage .......................................REVIEW:"AnnaLee Scully is a blithe presence wherever she performs. She writes some of the most incisively-germane, moving songs of our times, then delivers them with indelible beauty and power." Grassroots Concerts Brainerd, Minnesota.BIO: AnnaLee began performing at a young age. She learned to love hymns and traditional harmonies and to sing a good alto with most anything she heard. She learned piano by ear, then clarinet by note, as well as singing anywhere and everywhere. She was Ruth in the Pirates of Penzance and Ado Annie in Oklahoma. Always the actress, she was named to Who's Who in High School Dramatics. At 15, AnnaLee began to sing for local social groups, prisons, and care facilities. She sang on local radio and tv. When beginning her university years as a soc/psych major, she auditioned for the college choir and was advised...." with that voice....if you are not a music major ...you are a fool!" She had opportunity to sing alto solos in the Bach Magnificat, Elijah, and performed with the University Jazz Ensemble UWM as well as singing in coffee houses, performing and winning talent competitions. A natural comedienne, AnnaLee weaves stories, poignant, funny, and true, with her gentle perspective and layers them between the songs. She leads you by the water. She lays sound like silk......fools around pretty well with her instruments, but is known for her powerful and rich voice. She rations that voice to fractions or opens her big heart and it holds everyone in arms. She twinkles, sighs, and throws back her head to laugh. Born to sing she especially loves to raise voices with friends. It delights her to make trouble in the best way she can.... mischievously stirring the pot of emotion and heart, in the exploration of the desire we have to be present and loving. AnnaLee sings, opening for Catholic Worker speakers and marching with Housing Now.... using voice and presence to raise money and awareness about homelessness. She sings for peace, for foster parents, at nature preserves, or in the woodland bowl on the reservation. She sings at camps. churches, colleges and rallies for the family farmer. She has graced festival stages and sung at the Kennedy Center festival for very special arts. She performed at the Schwartz Family festival, Greenapple Friends of Folk festival, Shawno Old Tyme Music and craft festival, Lacrosse Great River festival, Summerfest, Wisconsin public radio concerts, University coffee houses, Norfolk family folk festival, the Stanton Virginia Traditional Music festival and much more. In 1989, Anna moved with her family to the east coast and now resides in Virginia. She has five children mostly grown. She continues singing , as well as teaches, people from all walks of life. She spent ten years opening for speakers and authors and has sung at the SMU womens conference for peace, and continues speaking and singing at conferences and lectures, as well as festivals, libraries and concert venues. She is known for the harmonies her voice adds in workshop settings and festival stages with other performers, as well as her ability to MC a festival stage. Her voice, writing and presence stand strong and can move the heart. With all of us she walks fire and it has left her strengthened and still vulnerable. She may tell you stories about how she has jumped out of a plane, walked fire or wandered into her latest adventure. A clear yet wacky visionary, she will take you ......from the roots and traditional into the present moment. When she is not singing, AnnaLee writes poetry, paints, carves stone, gardens and dreams and holds her own no matter what the venue. **As Jean Ritchie said, in a personal note "Now there's a voice!" ******** REVIEW:"wearing a muumuu, she sits making a wide lap for her instruments, as though ready to comfort one of her five children or to take on the worlds' problems. Her voice soars, wails, cries, blends something of New Orleans Jazz and Indian chanting and Appalachian folk song. It gives one goose bumps." Milwaukee Sentinel Milwaukee, Wisconsin.........REVIEW:"AnnaLee Scully is a local artist with talent second to none. She plays various instruments, including guitar, autoharp and hammer dulcimer. But it is the voice that everyone leaves talking about---one of those rich voices envied by anyone who ever tried to sing. AnnaLee presents a diverse collection of traditional, contemporary, gospel and her own songs." Tidewater Friends of Folk Norfolk Family Folk Festival, Virginia.........REVIEW:"Annalee is always one of the highlights of our Festival. Her beautiful voice and infectous charm and wit capture our audiences. She is one of the most popular and invited artists at the Festival." Norman Cook Shawano, Wisconsin, Old Time Music & Craft Festival.........REVIEW:"Anna Lee is a risk-taker on stage. The wonderful voice soars and whispers; the songs come from the heart, from grief and joy, anger and exultation; we're invited to sing too...and we do, with tears and with laughter." Judy Rose Simply Folk Wisconsin Public Radio.