Annabelle Chvostek

Annabelle Chvostek spent two and half years touring internationally and recording with the Wailin’ Jennys. During that time their 2006 album, Firecracker (which featured four of Annabelle’s songs, including the title track) was nominated for a Juno award, and the band were frequent guests on Garrison Keillor’s popular A Prairie Home Companion.

Now Annabelle has released a stunning solo album, Resilience, recorded in New York and Montreal with Grammy-nominated Canadian record producer Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson, Rosalie Sorrels, Penny Lang, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Bitch & the Exciting Conclusion) and her producing partner Vivian Stoll. The album features among others Bruce Cockburn, Mary Gauthier, Michael Jerome Browne, Julie Wolf (Ani DiFranco’s keyboard player).

In addition to pursuing her solo music career, Annabelle continues to work in a variety of other disciplines. Immediately prior to joining the Jennys, she toured to Brussells, Rotterdam, Hamberg, Berlin and Vienna with her new media performance piece “The Automated Prayer Machine,” a collaboration with Anna Friz. Most recently, she composed music for the Drastic Action Dance company piece Line of Descent, which debuted in New York.