Ann Vriend

Edmonton Alberta

Ann Vriend is a singer-songwriter and pianist based in Edmonton, Alberta in the neighborhood of McCauley. She has played festivals and venues around the world. Vriend released a popular demo in 2000 which received immediate radio play on stations across western Canada and earned her a spot at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. A year later she won a songwriting contest which took her to Nashville, Tennessee and helped fund her debut album, Soul Unravelling (2003), which was well received by critics and sold well for an independent release. Winner of the 2017 Maple Blues Award "Cobalt Music Prize" for recording and composition "All That I Can" - Wikipedia