Annie Girl Takes Flight

Annie Girl started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and guitar at nine. In her early teens while playing in one of Denver’s local punk bands, she began to write songs and never stopped. Annie Girl was just 17 when she left home for the streets of San Francisco. While in San Francisco, Annie Girl was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco’s SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs.
The next few months were a whirlwind. Annie Girl joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them – because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
First though Annie Girl toured the North West, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his cross-pollinated “anti-band” collectives featuring members of the Bay Area’s rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, and with Matos as her “spiritual adviser,”  she put together her own band, Annie Girl and the Flight. The band recorded the album at legendary Hyde Street Studio. Released in February 2013, the self-title album was named MOJO magazine’s Album of the Month.
Since then, Annie Girl’s time has been divided between writing songs and playing live – sometimes acoustic sets (including two acclaimed solo shows at the 12 Bar in London), but mostly with her electric band, a louder, edgier, almost psychedelic version of The Flight, now featuring Josh Pollock (Foxtails Brigade; 3 Leafs) on guitar and FX, Joe Lewis, on bass (Foxtails Brigade; Os Beaches) and Nick Ott (Emily Jane White) on drums.
Annie Girl and The Flight will play at Tin Roof Saturday, May 24 along with Charleston’s Bully Pulpit and Versus Angels. Tin Roof is located at 1117 Magnolia Road. For more information, call 571-0775.