Ann McNamee is a musician, producer, composer, lyricist, creative consultant, and professor emerita. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Music Theory), which led to a career teaching Music Theory and the History of Women Composers at Swarthmore College. Ann performed with and composed songs for the bands Flying Other Brothers, Ann Atomic, and Moonalice.
Currently, Ann is a producer, co-composer, and co-lyricist on a musical theater project entitled OTHER WORLD. The musical spawned a comic book series set to be released in 2026. With her husband Roger McNamee, Ann co-founded the award-winning Haight Street Art Center.
Some highlights along the way:
Warming up for U2 at the Oakland Coliseum and performing at AT&T Park (SF Giants) for Jerry Garcia Day
Recording/composing/co-writing over 100 songs with such extraordinarily generous musicians as Bono, T Bone Burnett, Eric McFadden, Jon Evans, Julie Wolf, Curt Bisquera, Roger Love, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, Melvin Seals, Stacy Parrish, and G. E. Smith, with Ann Atomic, the Flying Other Brothers, and Moonalice
Participating in the Lilith Fair tour (2010) with Ann Atomic, a band formed for this tour (Eric McFadden, Jon Evans, Curt Bisquera, Roger Love, and Mookie Siegel)
Playing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass for eight years, and at Bonnaroo, Oregon Country Fair, Burning Man, Gathering of the Vibes, and the Summer of Love Anniversary
Co-writing “It’s 4:20 Somewhere,” a song recognized by the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and co-writing “Fifteen Cadillacs,” used during the pre-game show for the 2012 Super Bowl
Composing the majority of the songs on the Moonalice album that was part of T Bone Burnett’s nomination for Producer of the Year at the 2009 Grammys
Hundreds of free concerts and benefits, often with Moonalice Poster Art Trees displaying the over-1,000 commissioned posters of artists from around the country
Co-founding, with Roger McNamee, the Haight Street Art Center, named “Best Art Gallery” in multiple publications
World Premiere of the musical OTHER WORLD at the Delaware Theatre Center in early 2022
Launching the comic book series OTHER WORLD, based on the musical of the same name
Warming up for U2 at the Oakland Coliseum and performing at AT&T Park (SF Giants) for Jerry Garcia Day
Recording/composing/co-writing over 100 songs with such extraordinarily generous musicians as Bono, T Bone Burnett, Eric McFadden, Jon Evans, Julie Wolf, Curt Bisquera, Roger Love, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, Melvin Seals, Stacy Parrish, and G. E. Smith, with Ann Atomic, the Flying Other Brothers, and Moonalice
Participating in the Lilith Fair tour (2010) with Ann Atomic, a band formed for this tour (Eric McFadden, Jon Evans, Curt Bisquera, Roger Love, and Mookie Siegel)
Playing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass for eight years, and at Bonnaroo, Oregon Country Fair, Burning Man, Gathering of the Vibes, and the Summer of Love Anniversary
Co-writing “It’s 4:20 Somewhere, ” a song recognized by the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and co-writing “Fifteen Cadillacs,” used during the pre-game show for the 2012 Super Bowl
Composing the majority of the songs on the Moonalice album that was part of T Bone Burnett’s nomination for Producer of the Year at the 2009 Grammys
Hundreds of free concerts and benefits, often with Moonalice Poster Art Trees displaying the over-1,000 commissioned posters of artists from around the country
Co-founding, with Roger McNamee, the Haight Street Art Center, named “Best Art Gallery” in multiple publications
World Premiere of the musical OTHER WORLD at the Delaware Theatre Center in early 2022
Launching the comic book series OTHER WORLD, based on the musical of the same name
