For songwriter Anna Tivel, speaking up isn't always easy. "I'd rather sit at the edge and watch everybody. It's less helpful for other parts of life," says Tivel over a spotty phone connection while ...

Portland, Ore., singer and songwriter Anna Tivel made her Mountain Stage debut sharing songs off of her fourth record, The Question. The performance was recorded at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, ...

Portland musician Anna Tivel’s new album, “Outsiders,” is a folk homage to empathy. In her bio, she notes the album is “a small prayer of recognition for loneliness and love and all the ways we try ...

As the world faced pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Oregonian folk musician Anna Tivel took the year as an opportunity to simply observe the slow passing of time and write “everything from the same window.

Few musicians observe life with as much acuity and depth of feeling as Anna Tivel. While she performs regularly around Portland and tours as much as she can, the singer/songwriter says she’s more ...

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Anna Tivel, who previously performed and recorded as Anna and the Underbelly, is clearly curious to define herself, and has the metaphors to get there. On second-album opener "Five ...

"We're gonna play you a story," the Oregon-based singer-songwriter Anna Tivel says, introducing "Black Umbrella," her searing ballad about police violence in a dying bank branch in a small town, ...

Portland, OR singer/songwriter Anna Tivel will release her sixth album, Living Thing, on May 31 via Fluff & Gravy Records (pre-order). It was made with longtime collaborator (and Bon Iver-approved ...

Anna Tivel's new album, The Question, is out on Portland's Fluff & Gravy Records today. NPR Music premiered the album last week saying "on The Question, the Portland-based songwriter breathes life ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. Anna Tivel is a stickler for details. On The ...

If the title serves as any indication, one might be justified in expecting that Blue World would be something of a sobering setup. After all, the color blue is normally associated with despair. In ...

Singer and songwriter Anna Tivel performs songs off her album The Question at Mountain Stage. Anna Tivel On Mountain Stage Portland, Ore., singer and songwriter Anna Tivel made her Mountain Stage ...