Anne's Birthday Show featuring chats w/ Comedian Brad Loekle, The Dan Band's Dan Finnerty, Musical Director William TN Hall and BFFs Jon Huston & Steven Carroll

Join Kelli and Anne for their 176th NEW episode!

Today is Anne’s Birthday Show!! They have so many of Anne’s favorite people doing pop in appearances to tell some funny stories about her or just to say hi! Plus instead of playing their normal transitions between segments, they decided they would play little pieces of Anne’s music from her 2 most recent albums, What’s Mine and Made Out Of Stars. Remember you can get all of this music on itunes, spotify, etc or go to www.annesteele.com

First they play Anne’s song Love Somebody from Made Out Of Stars to lead into their chat with their BFFs Jon Huston and Steven Carroll. Hear some very funny stories about their bachelorette party and the long ride home. Plus hear what Jon & Steve’s business Sniff a Pickle is up to and check them out at www.SniffAPickle.com for custom printed merchandise!

Next they play Anne’s song Without You Tonight from What’s Mine to lead into their chat with Comedian Brad Loekle all the way from LA. Anne and Brad have been friends over 20 years and they revisit the old days at Don’t Tell Mama where they first met and how they ended up entertaining together years later on Atlantis and RSVP cruises. To find out upcoming tour dates for Brad go to www.BradLoekle.com 

Next they play Anne’s song What’s Mine the title track from her first EP. This was the first song Anne ever wrote about growing up in Indiana and needing to get out and find her people. That leads into their chat with William TN Hall, Anne’s Musical Director and BFF, all the way from London! Will tells some very funny stories about being on tour with Anne, their gay-mazing race and so much more. They are both very excited to be back on tour again including their first gig back together TOMORROW, July 16th at City Winery NYC and July 22nd at The Crown and Anchor in Provincetown! Follow Will on socials @WilliamTNHall and check out their upcoming tour dates at www.annesteele.com 

Next they play Anne’s song Obsessed that she actually co-wrote about her relationship with Kelli. This leads into their chat with Dan Finnerty from The Dan Band. Dan has now become an annual guest on Anne’s birthday show because it makes Anne so happy plus they both just really love Dan and think he is so talented. They chat about being back on stage together last week at Susie’s Mosher’s show The LineUp at Birdland in NYC and how incredible it was to finally be performing live again. He also talks about The Dan Band getting back on the road and some of their upcoming show dates including Sept 24th at Gramercy in NYC and Oct 16th at Foxwoods. Go too www.TheDanBand.com to more tour dates to be announced soon.

As always, they end with a cocktail from Equality Vodka. This week, in honor of Anne’s Birthday, they are serving Anne’s Watermelon Mashup!

Finally they close out with Anne’s song Love Can Take Us There that was written in reaction to the Pulse Nightclub shooting. This acoustic version was released on Anne’s last EP Made Out Of Stars and features Nash Overstreet from Hot Chelle Rae on guitar.