All AV Merchandise Items

This is a full length, 10 song album with ONLY the title track ("Everybody Matters") released online-- all the other tracks are NOT YET RELEASED anywhere except via this AV Store (you cannot find it on iTunes, Spotify, etc; nor have any songs been released to the radio, nor media).  Produced by AV, and co-produced with Canadian/British producer Chris Birkett (Buffy Sainte Marie, Sinead O’Connor, etc) it is an acoustic, live-off-the-floor soul/blues/roots album; with AV on keys and vocals, and featuring Doug Organ on Hammond organ.  The album also has “old school” sounding drums, and 3 part background vocal harmonies.  With the exception of one song all the “bass” on the album is played by the organ and keys, rather than the typically expected electric guitar bass. The lyrics explore AV’s observations and insights based on living in her inner city neighborhood of McCauley, Edmonton, and is a follow up to her 2019 Top 100 German pop radio hit “Hurt People Hurt People,” and her 2019 Cobalt Music Prize awarding winning single, “It’s Happening”, and her 2017 single, “All That I Can,” which won the same award.  The album also features a duet with Calgary-based soul singer and bassist, Jory Kinjo.

Released in 2012 and produced by AV herself this is a “soul/Americana” album, recorded in a “live off the floor” format after a string of live shows with a 7 piece band, consisting of prominent musicians such as Juno nominated Chloe Albert and Folk Music Award nominee Coco Love Alcon on background vocals, Rooster Davis on Hammond organ, Robin Pelletier on guitar, drummer Thom Bennett of AB Trio, and James Forrest on bass, as well as AV herself of course, on piano and lead vocals.  

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This is a full length, 10 song album with ONLY the title track ("Everybody Matters") released online-- all the other tracks are NOT YET RELEASED anywhere except via this AV Store (you cannot find it on iTunes, Spotify, etc; nor have any songs been released to the radio, nor media).  

Produced by AV, and co-produced with Canadian/British producer Chris Birkett (Buffy Sainte Marie, Sinead O’Connor, etc) it is an acoustic, live-off-the-floor soul/blues/roots album; with AV on keys and vocals, and featuring Doug Organ on Hammond organ.  The album also has “old school” sounding drums, and 3 part background vocal harmonies.  With the exception of one song all the “bass” on the album is played by the organ and keys, rather than the typically expected electric guitar bass. The lyrics explore AV’s observations and insights based on living in her inner city neighborhood of McCauley, Edmonton, and is a follow up to her 2019 Top 100 German pop radio hit “Hurt People Hurt People,” and her 2019 Cobalt Music Prize awarding winning single, “It’s Happening”, and her 2017 single, “All That I Can,” which won the same award.  The album also features a duet with Calgary-based soul singer and bassist, Jory Kinjo.

Produced in NYC by Paul Brill this is an early AV album, released in 2006, which contains songs still regularly requested at live shows, such as “Backseat Driver” and “Where My Heart Lies,” and an early rendition of “Don’t Cry”, which was later redone on AV’s self-produced album “Love & Other Messes.”  

Explanation from AV:

If you are a very accomplished and advanced piano player and are looking to become even better I am not the teacher for you.  

And if you are looking to play sheet music exactly as written I am not the teacher for you.

But if you would like to know how to play songs in a basic way, the way guitar players play popular songs by reading chord charts that say things like “G, C7, Dminor” etc— I am the teacher for you.

And if you would like to learn how to play songs “by ear” (meaning that you hear it on the radio and figure out how to play it from listening rather than reading sheet music or a chord chart)— I am the teacher for you.

Lessons can be booked sporadically — or very regularly (ie: once per week)— it’s up to you.  My approach is to enable you to figure things out on your own so you eventually won’t need me anymore— and my approach is to enable you to work on things in your own time, without any obligation or regular commitment to more lessons— unless of course you want that.

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This is a full length, 11 song album.  Released in 2014 it was critically acclaimed, and contains the heavily requested "A Need So Wide” and “Those Records”, as well as “The Greatest Killer”, co-written with Canadian hit songwriter Dan Hill.  It is the first AV album produced with Tino Zolfo/Poppa Champagne, and this album marks the new sound of AV's "ghetto soul pop”, that continued with her award winning singles “All That I Can” and “It’s Happening”, and her German radio hit “Hurt People Hurt People”.  The album is AV’s first project in which she delved into her neighborhood of McCauley, Edmonton, for the inspiration and subject matter of the songs.

(This is a great gift idea, if I don’t say so myself ;))

As we all all painfully aware, not much is left for options in the way of physically in-person performances at the moment, but I do have my attic set up with my piano (keyboard), ambient lighting, and a good quality camera and microphone.  If you would like to book a performance I can set one up as a private link on my Youtube channel, which can be shared with your exclusive audience or sent as a gift to someone, to watch live or recorded to watch later.  

Message me at av@annvriend.com if you have questions before or after booking— to set up details such as show length, schedule a date for the performance, and maybe a request or 2 if it’s a song I know— including my own— to ensure I have time to make sure it’s under my fingers and is of maximum quality for you and yours.

Pricing is negotiable depending on financial situation and how many viewers are anticipated.