Ann Downey
Ann Downey sings and plays upright bass, clawhammer banjo, and guitar at the drop of a hat; with old-time Appalachian, country, swing (country and jazz), bluegrass, Celtic, English, and klezmer music and whatever fits.
She loves yodeling and wacky songs, and finding hair-raising harmonies. She grew up mostly in the southwestern U.S., but is now well settled in Ottawa, where she sings, harmonizes, plays, travels and/or records with Finest Kind, Sneezy Waters, Saloon Dion, and The Toasted Westerns among others.
Ann is frequently on call for bass and harmony vocals on projects in the studio as well as on stage.
Ann has taught harmony singing and yodeling privately at camps and festivals in Canada and the U.S., and currently teaches clawhammer banjo at Alcorn Music Studios.