Beat Poet Songwriter and “spoke folk” artist Annie Gallup is a teller of short, elaborate tales, song-length works of fiction that sparkle with the complexity and polish of poetry. She is the winner of numerous songwriting awards, including Kerrville New Folk, and Napa Valley Music Festival competitions, and she was the recipient of a Michigan Arts Council grant in 2001 to write and perform her first one-person performance piece,Stay Me With Flagons.

Her intensive touring schedule includes appearances at Winnipeg, Ottawa, Kerrville Wine & Music, and Ann Arbor Folk Festivals, and at concert venues across North America from New York City to San Diego, and from Whitehorse to Corpus Christi Texas. Annie has been heard on NPR's All Things Considered in an interview with Noah Adams. She recently moved back to her hometown, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Annie grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a family of artists and craftsmen in a household where if you wanted something, you made it yourself. She studied dance from the age of four all the way through her college years at the University of Michigan. There she majored in visual art: sculpture, metalsmithing, painting and photography. She begged for a guitar for her tenth birthday and fell in love with the country blues and Travis picking. Once she had her hands wrapped around the guitar's neck, it never occurred to her NOT to write songs, a love that stayed with her while she lived various lives: cutting tobacco in Kentucky, crewing on a 90 foot sloop in Puget Sound, skiing and rock climbing in the Cascade Mountains, baking cheesecakes in Seattle. It was there that Bruce Paskow, formerly of the Washington Squares, first heard her perform. He took her under his wing and into the studio, producing three songs for her first CD, Cause and Effect, before his tragic death in 1994. With that CD's release, Annie began touring nationally.

Annie's fifth album, Swerve , was released in April, 2001. Swerve was recorded at Theater 99 in New York City on vintage analog equipment with a phenomenal band featuring Michael Visceglia (Suzanne Vega) on bass, Denny McDermott on drums and Billy Masters (Dar Williams) on electric guitar. Her critically acclaimed fourth album, Steady Steady Yes , which was recorded live and unaccompanied, captured the engaging and compelling performances for which Annie has become known in her live shows - focused, dramatic and totally exposed. It followed her groundbreaking 1998 release, Courage My Love, which was thought by critics to be an artistic triumph. Fusing elements of spoken word with sharp melodies and a trademark delivery, Annie has created her own musical sub-genre.

"...filled with deft metaphors and riveting images sifted from love's ashes. It's so smooth you'd hardly know its poetry." - New York Daily News, New York, NY

Annie's Website: anniegallup.com