Star Anna grew up in the country, played drums in a punk band in high school, heard an Elliott Smith record, picked up a guitar and never looked back. Now a Pacific North West favorite, Star Anna has released five albums (three with the band The Laughing Dogs, two solo) and is set to release her third solo album, Light In The Window, June 23rd. She has caught the attention of some of Seattle's finest, Guns n Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, who invited her to open up the Pearl Jam 20 Festival (Alpine Valley, 2011). She also released a limited edition 7' with McCready of his song Keep On and her cover of Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend. Later this year she'll be releasing a second 7" on McCready's new vinyl label Hockeytalkter. Whether playing with a full band or perched solo on a chair with a tambourine tied to her foot and her dog asleep in the guitar case, her voice stands out as a raw and honest declaration of a hard life lived and earned with moments of sparkling, aching hope and always a tinge of darkness, half asleep beneath the melody.