Annie Bartholomew

Annie Bartholomew is an Alaskan songwriter and audio storyteller from Juneau. She received a 2021 Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship and 2020 Rasmuson Project Award for her original music inspired by narratives of women during the Klondike Gold Rush. Annie plays traditional guitar and clawhammer banjo, and her collaborative music ensembles can be heard at the Alaska Folk Festival every April. She was the March 2019 artist-in-residence through the Yukon Arts Centre's Jenni House Residency in Whitehorse and was awarded the Alaska Historical Society's Emerging Professional/Student travel scholarship to present her work at their 2019 conference in Kodiak. Annie is working with Theater Alaska to develop her historical songwriting project, Sisters of White Chapel, into a stage show, and bring this history to new audiences. Learn more about Sisters of White Chapel at: http://www.anniebalaska.com/sisters-of-white-chapel.