Annie and the Beekeepers

Annie Lynch started her love of live songs while eavesdropping regarding Cape Cod minimal Fiddlers’ painstakingly squeaky rehearsal in the gym of her elementary school en route to after-school pickup. This is songs to her ears. The sound of their little irregular bows regarding the inexpensive devices should have now been that of a world-class orchestra. She begged the woman moms and dads for a violin, a wish they were very happy to grant, and screeched her means through five years of Suzuki lessons until she found the music of Joni Mitchell and began to sing. Guitar implemented singing, writing followed electric guitar, and by the time Annie had been fourteen, generating and doing songs had apparently become a vital need to the woman coming of age. Her love of bowed instruments would continue though, thankfully, her violin has not since been publicly unearthed.

After a number of teenage many years of playing locally in coffeehouses on Cape Cod, Annie attended Berklee university of Music in Boston, in which she met the performers that would become known as “The Beekeepers”, Alexandra Spalding (Cello and Voice), Ken Woodward (Bass), and Mat Davidson (multi-instrumentalist). Annie and Beekeepers recorded a demo of Annie’s songs when you look at the winter of 2006, and continued to launch their self-titled first, Annie Lynch therefore the Beekeepers in 2007 with Grammy-nominated producer-engineer, Jack Gauthier. The record album was presented with rave reviews from likes associated with the Boston Globe and Paste Magazine, and receives regular airplay on Boston’s WUMB and WERS, and NYC’s WFUV and others. The city’s Americana music scene warmly embraced Annie and The Beekeepers, also it took very little time the foursome to gather northeastern notoriety.

In '09, the team introduced their EP, Squid Hell Sessions, known as after the studio inside Jamaica Plane community of Boston where Berklee peers, Adrian Olsen and Kyle VandeKerkhoff, recorded the majority of the EP. Amidst the production of Squid Hell Sessions, the band relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Annie and also the Beekeepers proceeded to tour nationwide, revealing phases at venues like NYC’s Town Hall and Bowery Ballroom, and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium using loves of Josh Ritter, Justin Townes Earle, Joe Pug, David Wax Museum, The Low Anthem, and Lissie. Annie in addition to Beekeepers have carried out at notable celebrations including SXSW, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, and Boston Folk Festival. In September of 2010, the musical organization embarked on their first UK tour, showcased by a slot at End of Road songs festival in Dorset.

Upon conclusion of the trip, the musical organization changed clothes to generate the newly-released and currently critically recommended album, “My Bonneville”, called after Annie’s first car. Annie and Beekeepers, now including multi-instrumentalists, Jeni Magana, Javier Cruz, and Keenan O’Meara revealed “My Bonneville” with headlining shows at NYC’s Joe’s Pub additionally the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Performer mag describes “My Bonneville” as “American origins songs, sweetly intimate with vast boot-stomping songwriting”. The record album is a result of be rereleased in March of 2013.

What People Have-been Saying:

“Lynch together with Beekeepers create symphonic, slow- burning tunes that strike a pleasant balance between heavy feeling and light, sparse sound…”