Annie Keating releases new album For Keeps

Annie Keating For KeepsNew-York singer/songwriter Annie Keating’s fifth album, For Keeps is indeed a keeper. Beautifully crafted songs combined with musical hooks and punches knock the listener in the chest, making this album an instant classic. With refreshing honesty, grit and timelessness, Keating and her band of musical magic makers achieve a sound that is complex and simple, new and vintage … the first song gets its hooks in you and captivates throughout.

This Brooklyn-based songwriter knows how to write and deliver beautiful songs with a magical earthly rich voice and arrangement that transfixes … She has picked up a great (and well served) reputation over the course of her four previous albums, but on For Keeps Keating truly shines. No frills or posturing – her sultry voice cuts straight to the heart. On her fifth album release, she has arrived as an international songwriting tour de force.

Talent spotted by BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris, Keating appeared live on his show in 2008 and 2011 and has gone on to perform at numerous leading national and international festivals including Take Root (Netherlands), the Glasgow Americana Festival (Scotland), the NJ Folk Festival, NXNE in Canada, NEMO and MEANY music fests and the Mountain Stage NewSong finals.

Keating has performed on the bill with the likes of John Hiatt, Dan Bern, Natalia Zuckerman, Bon Iver, Hot Club of Cowtown, Anne Heaton, Boris McCutcheon and Shannon McNally.

See artist web link for tour dates: www.anniekeating.com