Ann Magnuson presents A GOTH XMAS – Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of THE HUNGER featuring songs by BONGWATER! BOWIE! BAUHAUS! Plus: Ann’s personal stories about being the first victim of David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve’s stylish vampire couple in what has been universally described as the best opening sequence in cinema history! Magnuson will be accompanied by musicians Joe Berardi, Marc Doten and Pierre Smith. With special guest Adam Dugas. Magnuson will also sing her new single GHOST CAT and perform other elements of what the native West Virginian calls “Appalachian Goth Lounge”.
Ann Magnuson is a performer and musician known for her surreal dreamscapes presented in both song and spoken word. She fronted the indie cult band Bongwater (who released five albums from 1986-1992) and has released many solo albums starting with “The Luv Show” (Geffen, 1995.)
She is also is a multi-media interdisciplinary performer, writer, and artist who has acted in film, theater and television, performed in museums and galleries, written for various publications, and also makes visual art.
After studying theatre and cinema in London she worked in New York City with the Ensemble Studio Theater, managed the infamous Club 57, and rubbed elbows with Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Ann appeared with David Bowie in “The Hunger”, starred in “Making Mr. Right” opposite John Malkovich and was a series regular in the ABC sitcom “Anything But Love” with Jamie Lee Curtis. She famously dropped the F-Bomb on Sir Patrick Stewart in “Picard.” She has recently completed narration for an audio book of the memoir of famed jazz vocalist Anita O’Day. Her new single “Ghost Cat” (about monsters from her native West Virginia) will be released in late October and features harmonica by Nashville legend Charlie McCoy.
She received a BFA, Theater and Cinema from Denison University, an Honorary Doctorate from West Virginia University, is a 2018 Inductee of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, was Guest Curator of MOMA’s exhibit “Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983”, and recently established The Club 57 Society this summer while curating (and performing) in two wildly successful events at Zebulon co-hosted by The Broad Museum in connection with their Keith Haring retrospective.