Amelie Anna

ABOUT AMELIE ANNA
Austrian-born vocalist and percussionist Amelie Anna celebrates the music and legacy of the beloved singer Eva Cassidy with music from her posthumous compilation Songbird. 

The first woman to graduate as part of the inaugural class of the RJAM (Roots, Jazz, and American Music) program at San Francisco Conservatory co-created with SFJAZZ, Anna studied with conservatory faculty, members of the SFJAZZ Collective including David Sánchez and Edward Simon, and jazz greats Julian Lage and Randy Weston. Her time with the program made so much of an impact on Anna that she returned to the Conservatory as Assistant Director of the RJAM program and has established a career as a performer whose omnivorous tastes have informed her singular aesthetic, blending influences and genres freely and with an enthusiastic passion.

ABOUT EVA CASSIDY
The Washington D.C.-born Eva Cassidy made an enormous impact during her tragically short life and career. An omnivorous and gifted artist whose reluctance to conform to a single genre or style hampered her widespread recognition, Cassidy gained worldwide fame following her death from cancer in 1996 at the age of 33. Her posthumous 1998 release Songbird is compiled from her first three recordings and features Cassidy’s takes on “Wayfaring Stranger,” “Fields of Gold,” and “Over the Rainbow.”