Annie Bartholomew loves to tell stories
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.
She received a 2021 Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship and 2020 Rasmuson Project Award for her original music inspired by narratives of women during the Klondike Gold Rush. Annie plays traditional guitar and clawhammer banjo, and her collaborative music ensembles can be heard at the Alaska Folk Festival every April. She was the March 2019 artist-in-residence through the Yukon Arts Centre's Jenni House Residency in Whitehorse and was awarded the Alaska Historical Society's Emerging Professional/Student travel scholarship to present her work at their 2019 conference in Kodiak. Annie worked with Theater Alaska to develop her historical songwriting project, Sisters of White Chapel, into a stage show, and bring this history to new audiences.
Annie Bartholomew has worked as an Arts & Culture reporter at KTOO and served as Program Director at the 24-hour public radio music station KXLL 100.7 FM. Annie has interned at NPR Music's All Songs Considered podcast and helped as a production assistant at the Tiny Desk. In 2018, she served as Curator of the Alaska Hold Music Project developing a playlist of new hold for the State of Alaska’s telephone lines. She is a graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Journalism Program where she worked as Program Manager at KSUA which received mtvU’s Best College Radio Woodie Award at SXSW.
Contact annie@anniebgood.com