Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it.  Her parents were brilliant people individually.  Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet.  Together they made sadness.  Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew.  They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too.  This is how creating art and music came about for her.  This is  what saved her.  This is how she lives now.

Things my dad taught me:  skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, play basketball, ride motorcycle, go without if you can't afford it, play guitar 

Things my mom taught me: draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder, forgive 

  Annie has 4 children and 2 grandsons.  She has a handsome, Indian, horseman husband.  They inspire her spirit and her art.
 

“Journeys of feeling
her song her voice
reflecting spirit

Story telling
People’s story
Woman’s story
 
Helping the music
to remember
what is real
 
Ancestor memories
Dealing with nows
Shadow worlds
 
An Ancient way
For the healing
A woman sings ”
— JOHN TRUDELL
 
ON ANNIE’S NEW RECORD “The Light In My Bones”

Acclaimed Anishinaabe singer, songwriter, and environmental activist Annie Humphrey is pleased to announce the upcoming release of her new record “The Light In My Bones” with a tour of the upper Midwest this October and November.  Joined by longtime allies and collaborators David Huckfelt (singer-songwriter and folk-activist) and Jeremy Ylvisaker (guitarist, producer, multi-media artist), “The Light In My Bones” Tour will bring music, stories, community, and an all-inclusive spirit of celebration and protection for Mother Earth to schools, churches, music venues, Tribal colleges and reservation halls across Minnesota and Wisconsin.  In addition to evening concerts at local venues, most of which benefit regional social service organizations, Honor the Earth will also be presenting a series of day-time community art engagement activities in each city around the themes of sustainability, conservation, treaty rights and our shared interconnectedness.  “The purpose of this project and tour is to gather and create and be coherent together.  To rise up and recognize the very real power within each of us.”, writes Annie Humphrey.