Anna Copa Cabanna

Anna Copa Cabanna is the "Always Entertaining" (TIME OUT) Australian showgirl icon who has performed her choreography, played her xylophone, and rollerskated in venues around the world. She was the face and twirling body of THE DEBASER on The Pixies "Doolittle Tour", sings in an ACDC cover band, a 20s vaudeville Act, a German Polka Band, and The celebrated Loser's Lounge.

Anna is also the official go go dancer of the New York Rock and Roll Underground, and a Bingo Caller!

Anna was recently named one of "10 offbeat artists keeping the old, weird New York alive" by Flavorpill along with Yoko Ono and Bill Cunningham, and "really draws the audience to her" (THE NEW YORKER) with her voracious voice and fabulous imagination.

Anna's song about being harassed/misunderstood as a GO GO DANCER was part of an Installation at OCADU Graduate Gallery, Toronto in March 2016 as part of a Show/Thesis about the wrongful incarceration of "Deviant" Women in the 1920s/1930s.

The Anna Copa Cabanna Show (Joe's Pub), her multi-disciplinary homage to television specials of the 1970's, has captured the imagination of punk royalty, celebrities, various magazines, blogs and many a teenage boy.

An established singer-songwriter in New York City, she reflects on everyday issues with her lil xylophone, voracious voice and fabulous imagination.

The truth-in a sequin leotard.

Anna has collaborated with some of the most exciting and eccentric performers from NYC and beyond including Fred Schneider (B 52s), Ursula 1000, Jeffrey Lewis, James Chance, Joe McGinty, Corn Mo, Kid Congo Powers, Andrew WK, The Pixies, Lenny Kaye, Tommy Ramone, Jonathan Toubin, New Pornographers, Marc Ribot, Delicate Steve, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Flaming Fire, Christian Gibbs, Tim Kuhl, Azar Swan, My Demon Sister, and The Electric Mess

Her special brand of vintage go-go dancing, pretty punk songs and extravagant outfits have been featured at diverse venues including Joe's Pub, Highline Ballroom, Lincoln Center, The Slipper Room, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, City Winery, Terminal 5, 54 Below, Grounds for Sculpture, Scope Art Fair, Motherf*cker, Brooklyn Bowl, MassMoca, The Knitting Factory, Le Poisson Rouge, Pianos, Pete's Candy Store, Santos Party House, Cakeshop, Galapagos, and many more.


She is the featured dancer in music videos for Ursula 1000, Marc Ribot, Kid Congo Powers, Turn To Crime, Azar Swan, The Electric Mess, and Christian Gibbs.