COMMUNITY MONDAYS: Artist Spotlight - Anna May

Name: COMMUNITY MONDAYS: Artist Spotlight - Anna May
Start: 2026-03-09T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704

Schedule

Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704 | Berkeley, CA

This Monday’s event is an intimate solo set with Bay Area-based folk songwriter Anna May on our lobby stage.
About Anna May
Alternative tragic Americana, invocations for peace and judgment reshaping with bleeding heart stream of consciousness poems. The exploration of heartbreak and trauma has been an ongoing quest throughout Anna's work.
Her lyrics have been heavily textured by a lonesome whimsicality that finds itself most at home in the vastness of the American West or in landscapes of stark frontiers. Anna's music honors the nomadic spirit with memory, meditation & fresh interpretations of folk and jazz. She hopes to enhance healing amongst listeners in the process of parting with genre rules.
Anna's lyrical sensibility is steeped in wisdom, evocative musicality and metaphysical embroidery while eschewing the mainstream & parting with platitudes. She explores both estrangement and connection while taking cues from artists like Billie Holiday, Shawn Colvin, and Leonard Cohen. Anna has been compared to artists like Jeff Buckley & Aimee Mann.
Anna has opened for Kacy Hill, Amythyst Kiah, Stella Prince, Ariel Pink, The Arcadian Wild, Altan, the Jacob Jolliff Band, Gold Celeste & Vinyl Williams and has performed at wildflower music & arts festival, treefort music festival, Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, City Winery in Boston, WDVX Blue Plate Special, etc.
Anna has been featured by Under the Radar Magazine, Earmilk, Americana UK, Music Connection Magazine, Popdust, Ones to Watch, Ditty TV, Holler Country, etc. She was a featured guest on NPR's Great American Folk Show & on WKU PBS Lost River Sessions. Her song, The Show was chosen as song of the day on KUTX.