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Ann lives on a dairy farm in New Zealand, and was born on a South Taranaki backcountry sheep farm, and has always been a true country girl. Married, with an adult family, and a late starter in country music, she is happily surprised to find herself doing well as an independant country music artist.
Ann has always been interested in music, learning classical piano for a time in her primary school years, then moving on to popular music. She strummed the guitar with the few chords she mastered, but never really thought of singing seriously.
It was only in the last few years that after listening to lyrics of Merle Haggard, the Statler Brothers, and Hoyt Axton for years, and always having been a writer, and also a poet (of simple verse), it seemed a natural progression to write lyrics.
About 1999 she started putting the lyrics to music. But found it's one thing to write country songs. It's another to get them heard in public. When Ann sought such advice, she was told to sing them herself. And finally, she took singing lessons for a couple of years. To her joy she found she loved to sing, and could do it quite well.
Her first time singing in public was in September 2001 and she says she will always remember that as a great experience, singing with a live band at a country music club, and the power of the microphone.
Almost a year to the day, she was asked back to the club to be a guest artist, such was her progress at doing what she wished she had begun 30 years ago. Some placings in Country Music Awards around the countryside boosted her confidence even more.
After placings in song-writing contests too, and almost a year on from winning her first trophy, a New Talent Award at New Plymouth in the Traditional Country Music Club's 2002 Easter Awards, she produced a 12 song CD, with the title track of her own original song, "The First Hello" and other original songs.
Since then a steady list of invites to appear as support artist to some prominent New Zealand singers on shows, and being on radio playlists around the world, including country radio stations in Croatia and France, has put her name in the arena of country music.
And being selected to be on a Hillcrest multi-artist CD was certainly another milestone for this artist, and being the first resident New Zealander to have done so. Ann released another song with Hillcrest's January 2005 release, another Ownbey song "Love Is Where You Leave Your Heart" which has done very well on the ECMA charts.
"On the Menu" is the title track written by Ann, released on Hillcrest's May 2005 release and getting some good feed back about the country song with a difference.
The balance of the 14 track album is made up with more Ownbey songs, and some co-written with Roy, and some of her own originals.

Check out the artist's website:
http://annpascoe.notlong.com

Track List:
1. On the Menu (Pascoe)
2. I Believe In Me (Ownbey)
3. How Much Is Love Worth (Ownbey)
4. You Just Don't Get It (Ownbey)
5. I Need Lovin' In My Life (Ownbey)
6. Treat Me Like a Lady (Richardson/Ownbey/Hartwell)
7. A Faster Train (Ownbey)
8. Cowboy Cute and Cowgirl Crazy (Richardson/Ownbey/Hartwell)
9. Toodlee Oo (Ownbey)
10. Making Love to You (Ownbey/Sheraton)
11. The Pumpkin in Your Drive (Pascoe/Marsh)
12. Our Movie is Over (Ownbey)
13. Jealous River (Pascoe/Ownbey)
14. This Saddle (Pascoe)

Other Genres:

• COUNTRY: Modern Country
• EASY LISTENING: Love Songs
• SOLO FEMALE ARTIST