Little Annie / Baby Dee

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"While a couple of pop oddballs cavort through another revival of Weill's "Threepenny Opera", the true heir to Lotte Lenya's barstool, Little Annie, still holds court downtown. Little Annie has seen and done it all...she remains astonished--and astonishing--while recounting these adventures."
- Time Out New York



Following last-year's critically acclaimed "Songs From the Coalmine Canary," (produced by Antony), Annie is releasing her second album on Durtro/Jnana this December: "When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos"--9 covers and a Christmas song, produced by long-time co-conspirator Paul Wallfisch. The duo has spent the year bringing sold-out audiences to tears from Athens to Copenhagen--with stops at the Donau Festival and supporting Marc Almond in Barcelona--along the way. This is their only New York City appearance of 2007.



Baby Dee spent ten years as an organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining a circus in Coney Island as the "Bilateral Hermaphrodite." After years of performing the harp performing on her harp with The Shanghai Bureau' she returned to New York City. Here she had a street act, involving a high-rise tricycle and concert harp. "Discovered" by Antony, it was only in 2000 that she recorded her first record, Little Window, on the Durtro label. Fusing incredible arrangements of sweet strings and thundering piano, with mixed measures of spite and delight, Baby Dee is a one- off unique talent who should not be overlooked. Her first two albums have recently been reissued by Durtro/Jnana as a double CD set entitled "The Robin's Tiny Throat" and her latest album"Safe Inside the Day" is due out in January 2008 on the Drag City label and features Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney.