Ann Savoy

Ann Savoy (born Ann Allen, January 20, 1952) in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She is a musician, an author, a record producer, and a photographer.

As a musician she has recorded many projects, including a duet CD, Adieu False Heart with Linda Ronstadt. She performs with her husband accordionist Marc Savoy and fiddler Michael Doucet in the Savoy Doucet Cajun Band. She also records and travels with her all-woman band The Magnolia Sisters. Recently she and husband Marc have begun to perform with their sons in the Savoy Family Band.

She has recorded eight CDs on the Arhoolie, Rounder, and Vanguard records. Ann has appeared in many documentaries on the subject of Cajun music, most recently PBS series American Roots Music, and with her husband was the subject of Les Blank’s film, Marc and Ann. She also works as an record producer for Vanguard Records, for whom she produced the Grammy nominated tribute to Cajun music, Evangeline Made, featuring, among others, pop and folk idols Linda Ronstadt, John Fogerty, Richard and Linda Thompson, Nick Lowe, and Rodney Crowell performing traditional Cajun tunes. Her second project for Vanguard, a tribute to Creole and Zydeco, entitled Creole Bred , came out in May, 2004, featuring artists Cyndi Lauper, Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo,Sweet Honey In The Rock, among others. In 2003she produced a CD for the state of Louisiana showcasing all the musical styles found within the Atchafalaya Heritage region. As a writer , she is the author of the Botkin award winning book, Cajun Music, A Reflection of a People, a book which chronicles the history of Cajun and Zydeco music through interviews, biographies, historic and current photographs, and song transcriptions. She wrote the chapter on Cajun and Zydeco in the recently released book, American Roots Music, Rolling Stone Press, as well as authoring numerous articles on Cajun music and historic CD booklets