Annie Crane hails from Rochester, New York where she grew up on her mother’s Canadian/Irish folk and Paul Simon records, her grandmother’s Italian operas, and her father’s interest in all things new and techy.

At 13, she was beginning to be noticed as a girl with a voice and was already developing a special affinity for classic ‘60’s folk. She received classical vocal training at the Eastman School of Music, but while studying at the University of Toronto, she turned her talents toward her first love, folk music.

She has been compared to the likes of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, and Gillian Welch. As one enthusiastic fan put it, “She looks across the audience like she’s looking deep into a distant decade.”

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“ANNIE CRANE’S soaring Baez vocals (without that overbearing, church singer quality), and rustic Americana-to-European-mountaintop (quite a trip!) songwriting will make you want to hug the person next to you. Her voice is like chasing a butterfly: a sound you’ll never be able to catch, but one that leaves enough feeling in the air to make you forget it’s gone - like all the stuff that glides by your window on a cross-country drive: the perfect canvas for the daydreams in your head to start wandering….like that one bird you always see taking off into the landscape, not held down by any of it.” - Mike Baglivi, New Jersey’s Lone Wolf