guitar, banjo, bass, ukulele, saw, vocals

Anita Orne, whose middle name, (for no apparent reason), happens to be Gail, was born in Berkeley, California just a few years before the summer of love. Growing up in Oakland gave her a rich appreciation of the importance of getting out of the city quickly, and as soon as the winds of age would allow, Anita migrated to Santa Cruz where she graduated from college and embarked on a career as a Naturalist, thereby forsaking her Oakland Hills heritage.

A life-long wanna-be tap dancer, Anita has enthralled local Island audiences with her footwork and counts as a fond memory tap dancing with Tom Lehrer in her College days. Yes, we did say Tap, not Lap. Early wanderlust led her to travel far around the globe and plunked her down in the Pacific Northwest where she secured marginal, but satisfying, employment at an island kids camp. There she honed her skills in a variety of jobs including toilet repair. She soon graduated to a career in sheet metal fabrication and furnace repair. Anita currently divides her time as a Videographer, Pottery Decorator and teaches music in the two-room schoolhouse on the next island over, where she conducts that islands finest Ukulele Orchestra.

A few years back, Anita unearthed the joys of playing acoustic saw, after finding electric saw required much too much gear. Her current favorite saw, which you may hear on the Olga Symphony’s latest album, is a stock Vermont American, straight off the shelf of the local hardware store. The sales staff wondered aloud what that noise was, but Anita, non-plussed, selected a beaut.

Anita’s Duck the Dog children’s books, which she is shamelessly trying to hawk, are available through the Darvill’s or Right Place links on this web site.

A self-avowed Horticidal Maniac, Anita is cultivating her brown thumb, and not much else, when the weather allows.