Location: Green Carnation

5 Greek Street, W1D 4DD

Door: 18:00

Performance starts: 20:00

A rare UK appearance from the New York based London born singer songwriter.  Expect to be touched by velvet vocals, baroque tinged lyrics and stunning strings and piano.

“A songsmith whose music simply aches beauty,” (Time Out), "A major talent in the offing...sublime"(Music Week) “extraordinary artistic ability” (South Bank Show), is just some of the praise being heaped on London born, New York based singer songwriter Ana Silvera who’s back in London for a rare UK appearance on the 17^th December at Soho’s Green Carnation.

Following a hugely successful showcase at SXSW Festival, 2009 proved to be a seminal year for this highly original London-based singer/songwriter. Ana’s ability to weave intense, poetical story-telling into hauntingly tender melodies saw her proclaimed recently as “charismatic, dramatic and full of an explosive energy that simply can’t be bottled up” (The Last Broadcast), with a lush, intimate sound that is fast gaining recognition amongst the New York/London avant-garde scene and beyond.

Ana has just completed her first studio album recorded in New York and London, alongside producer Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson) and Ray Singer (Armatrading, Hardy).  This album will also feature string quartet arrangements composed by renowned NYC-based musician Maxim Moston (Antony and the Johnsons, Keren Ann).

Ana Silvera's musical education began at a very young age with classical training and solo performances for the English National Opera. Writing songs inspired by everything from her own life experiences to those of a starlet in war-torn Paris, a biblical and murderous Salome, an Irish choirboy and a dead poet's wife, the forthcoming album promises to be an intimate account of her own - and many other vivid characters' lives and loves.

'Home Town' out on 8^th March 2010, the first track from her forthcoming album, can be previewed here: www.anasilvera.com/epk