1. Anna Coogan started her musical career in Seattle, and formed the band North 19 in 2004 with Travis Beard and Kevin Burkett.
10 Facts About Anna Coogan
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Anna Coogan developed her "bittersweet Americana" style in this band, which released two albums and was reviewed in No Depression.
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Anna Coogan renewed her collaboration with JD Foster in 2013 and co-wrote a collection of new songs with the producer and multi-instrumentalist for their album The Birth of the Stars, recorded in October 2014 at Electric Wilburland studio in Newfield, New York.
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Anna Coogan contributed vocals to three Johnny Dowd albums, That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse, Execute American Folklore and Twinkle, Twinkle.
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Anna Coogan has performed on Daytrotter and on major European radio stations including BBC 2 and WDR, Cologne.
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Anna Coogan toured the UK in January 2018 and performed as a member of the Johnny Dowd Band on a European tour in February 2018.
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In 2015, Coogan wrote a score for Jean Epstein and Luis Bunuel's silent horror film The Fall of the House of Usher to perform with Tzar at the Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival.
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Anna Coogan accompanied the Cocteau film with performances of the score on a tour of the United Kingdom in January 2018.
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Anna Coogan wrote and performs a silent score for an episode of the detective serie Beatrice Fairfax from 1916.
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Anna Coogan is a poet, a singer and an ace guitarist, alternating between Chris Isaac and Ry Cooder, rowdy garage rock, mainstream pop, vocal pyrotechnics, and intricate soundscapes.