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Annie Bartholomew

Annie Bartholomew

hometown: Juneau, AK

Annie Bartholomew is an Alaskan songwriter and clawhammer banjoist who creates mountain music as dark and dramatic as the northland. Inspired by the ghosts of Alaska’s mining past, her debut album Sisters of White Chapel uses historic source material and Appalachian stringband traditions to explore themes of survival, resilience, and revelry through her original folk songs about women and sex workers who traveled north during the Klondike Gold Rush. Her music has been featured on NPR Music's All Songs Considered podcast, No Depression, the Bluegrass Situation, Bandcamp Daily, and was named one of Folk Alley’s Top albums of 2023. Annie has performed at the Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival in the Netherlands, toured Ireland, and was named one of the Salt Lick Incubator’s inaugural Americanafest grant recipients.