On this podcast, UMFM Board Member Leigh Anne Caron speaks with fantastic local songstress Ann Walton.
Music Credits:
The Fugitives - Intro & Outro Music (taken from “Graffiti Sex”)
Ann Walton - Back Porch ( taken from Top Of The Hill)
Ann Walton - Top Of The Hill Waltz (taken from Top Of The Hill)
Download 2008 Winnipeg Folk Festival Podcast Episode 4 here.
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Ann Walton bio
In a moment of teen rebellion, Ann Walton decided she’d stop taking piano lessons and play the guitar instead. But in her mid-20s, when she came back to her senses — and back to the keyboard — Winnipeg’s music scene became a whole lot richer. Walton’s is not a sound we hear often in the ‘Peg: an old-time touch on the ivories meets a new-school sense of song. That smoky, jazzy sound (which thrilled audiences at the 2007 NXNE festival, and debuted on last year‘s Top of the Hill album) could be the musical child of Tom Waits and Ella Fitzgerald, or stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Rufus Wainwright; but for all those comparisons, Walton is a true prairie original.
Ann Walton plays at the Festival on Saturday, 12:45 in Snowberry Field; Saturday, 4:00 at Big Bluestem Stage; and Sunday, 12:15 at Little Stage on the Prairie.
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thats it, man