Anne Price

Anne Price is an American folk singer who was born in 1946 and who currently lives in the Bronx, New York City. Her repertoire includes ballads, coal mine and cotton mill songs, cowboy songs, songs of the sea, songs of the labor movement, old-time music, blues, love songs, and more. In addition to traditional folk songs, Price also sings songs by such folk artists as Jean Ritchie, Peggy Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Si Kahn, as well as several of her own compositions. She usually accompanies herself on guitar or Appalachian dulcimer, but sometimes sings a cappella.
Price, then Anne Siegel, began performing in public while a student at the uptown campus of Hunter College in 1965. She has since appeared throughout North America, as well as in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The more than one hundred venues where Price has performed include the New England Folk Festival in Natick, Massachusetts; and the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York; as well as CB's Gallery, the Bowery Poetry Club, and the South Street Seaport Museum, all in New York City.
Beginning in the 1970s, Price began singing with Marilyn Maltzer, and the two performed as a vocal duo until Maltzer’s death in 1994.
In 2003, Price became part of a newly formed folk group called MacDougal Street Rent Party, although she also continued to perform individually. The group dissolved in 2008 after the death of its musical director, Eric Levine. Even before Levine's demise, Price and fellow MacDougal Street Rent Party member Steve Suffet often performed together without the rest of the band, and they continued a part-time musical partnership after the band broke up.
Anne Price has recorded seven full albums. Two of those albums, Coming Home and My Time, are available only on cassette tape. The others were released as CDs and include:
* Happy Landings (with Marilyn Maltzer, cassette 1989, CD 2004)
* Hearth and Fire (1997)
* Remember Me (2005)
* A Few More Miles to Go (2009)
* Very Early Anne (2009, recorded at Hunter College 1965-1966)
These CDs have received extensive radio airplay, and one of Price's own songs, Gridlock, has been played on the National Public Radio program Car Talk. Price has also made many live radio appearances, including on Oscar Brand's long-running Folksong Festival program on WNYC, Ron Olesko's Traditions on WFDU, and Bob Sherman's Woody's Children on WFUV.
In addition to being a performing artist, Price has long served on the board of directors of the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club, known legally as the Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. She is also an active member of the Peoples Music Network and has led many workshops at their semi-annual gatherings.
Refeferences
• http://annepricemusic.home.att.net/
• http://www.cdbaby.com/all/anneprice
• http://ceimd.com/php/public.php?Orgfsgw&ProgramID4&EventID1864&NoTitle1
• http://www.blackswanfolkclub.org.uk/newsletter.php?viewID=90

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