“A Livestream From Here, For”
Weekly IGTV/Facebook Live Concert Dedicated To Charity
Thursdays @ 7p CT / @michaelaanne
Following the success of Desert Dove, Michaela Anne today releases a new single, “Good Times. While recorded pre-Covid during the same sessions as Desert Dove, the message of “Good Times” is apropos for the current times.
“Hope and optimism are two things I have to work hard to keep,” says Anne. “I often write songs as reminders or affirmations for myself and for the people I love. “Good Times” is a prime example of that. Trying to remember the blue sky is always there behind the clouds.”
Since the beginning of April, and with her spring tour canceled, Anne has hosted a weekly concert on Instagram and Facebook Live dedicated to a different charity each week. By donating half her tips each week, “A Livestream From Here, For” has, thus far, benefitted Here With Us Foundation in memory of her friend Ron Louie; NYC Makes PPE; Aim High Foster Support Network; Gideon’s Army; The Troubadour; Music and Memory; and YEAH!, Youth Empowerment Through Arts and Humanities.
In March, for her Refinery 29 op-ed piece, she shared her thoughts about being a musician in these uncertain times and spoke of losing her tour, income, and a friend to Coronavirus. She has also recently been featured in the New York Times, which included a photo of her Livestream from home in their ‘Photos of Life Transformed by a Pandemic’ series; on the NPR special series ‘The National Conversation with All Things Considered’; and on the just-released Surviving the Music Industry Podcast interview that explores topics including celebrating diversity alongside the lack of it in the music industry, particularly in the Americana genre.
Topping many 2019 year-end lists, including Rolling Stone, Stereogum, and No Depression, Desert Dove garnered critical praise from the likes of NPR Music, Billboard, American Songwriter, Associated Press, Paste, Rolling Stone Country, Brooklyn Vegan, and No Depression.
Michaela Anne began garnering national attention in 2014 with the release of Ease My Mind, hailed by The New York Times for its “plain-spoken songs of romantic regret and small-town longing” and named one of the year’s best country albums by the Village Voice. Her 2016 follow up, Lights and the Fame, was praised by Vice Noisey, who noted she’s “our saving grace, our angel, the person who will help usher us into a new age,” while Rolling Stone compared her to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.