Annie Dinerman is an award-winning singer-songwriter whose lyrics reveal a funny, frank and very female point of view. Annie walks in the footsteps of storytelling artists like Paul Simon and Wendy Waldman. Her singing voice will remind you of a young Carole King, but her warm, witty and womanly writer’s voice is distinctly Dinerman.
She was taught the value of craftsmanship at an early age by her first-generation Ukrainian-American mother, a Sunday painter who grew up working with her hands in the family tailoring shop. Annie first found a large and loyal following as a college student, and later in Southwest Ohio coffeehouses. The only native Ohioan in a family of transplanted New Yorkers, she heard the artist’s call and moved to New York.
In 2006, Annie received the Abe Olman Award from Songwriters Hall of Fame, and made her debut at the Kerrville Folk Festival as a Music To Life Songwriting Contest Finalist. In 2007, Dinerman received a grant from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, and was presented in the NERFA DJ Showcase (Northeast Regional Folk Alliance), the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Concert Series and the historic Caffé Lena. In 2008, Annie Dinerman completed recording of her second independent CD, “Broken Cookies”, with producer Steve Addabbo (Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega). She has performed at numerous regional Folk festivals, and in New York City listening rooms like Sidewalk Cafe, The Bitter End, Kenny’s Castaways and unWined. She was a featured artist at the closing awards ceremony of the 2008 Queens International Film Festival. Annie is a frequent live studio guest performer at WJFF Radio (Jeffersonville, NY).
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