Anne Louise Genest - Bio

Born and raised in downtown Toronto, Anne Louise took flight from the urban landscape and landed on the marge of Lake Laberge in Canada's Yukon, where the brief but brightly lit summers and long dark winters feed her already vivid imagination. Her initial musical education was of the kitchen table variety - Sunday afternoons spent in a log cabin in the Yukon bush with a variety of Yukon eccentrics. Bitten by the musical bug, she pursued private guitar and vocal studies and started writing her own songs. Her first professional musical venture was with the band "The Ladies' Auxiliary" (which included fellow Yukoner Kim Barlow), who can be heard on Caribou Records' first label release "The Yukon Collection."

Anne Louise released her second album"Big Dream" on the Caribou Records label this past spring. Her first solo album"Trouble", also on Caribou, was released in 2002. She has collaborated with a variety of musicians and can be heard on many of the music recording projects coming out of the Yukon, including Kim Barlow's albums "Humminah" and "Gingerbread", Caribou Records' "The Yukon collection 2", Kim Beggs' EP "Beautiful", and Yukon Women in Music's compilation CD "Ancient Wisdom". Along with Kim Barlow, Anne Louise fronts a retro punkadelic cover band called "The Licorice Whips".

When she is not making music, Anne Louise works in family violence prevention. She lives in a cabin in the woods outside of Whitehorse with her partner Anthony, where they dream about old-fashioned winters and running water.