annA is back at this venue – this is rescheduled from a postponed gig.

AUDIENCE QUOTE: “Where have you been all our lives! We enjoyed the show so much! Your songs are so original, personal, yet for everyone.”

“A multi-talented ball of energy” Julianne Regan [ALL ABOUT EVE]

annA rydeR is a musical dynamo; an original and inventive singer-songwriter with a musical style that, based in folk, spans an array of genres. Her songs are simultaneously thought-provoking, poignant and humorous.

She is a multi-instrumentalist playing, amongst others, piano, guitars, accordion, banjo, trumpet and is a performer who according to the audience ‘paints great songs’ and who say ‘puts the soul of the people into her music’.

annA is a musician’s musician who has played with and for many different artists including Fairport Convention, Eddi Reader and Julianne Regan (All about Eve).
‘Bring Me Back My Feathers’, included in the Fairport Convention set for several years, is annA’s song. They have also performed and recorded her songs ‘Sailing Boat’ and ‘The Crowd’.

In 2019 annA performed at Cropredy Convention as part of the unique 11-piece ‘Fairport Extension’ for which she arranged the brass parts and played keyboard, accordion, trumpet and French horn.

annA has made several albums, including Paper Girl, Pockets On Fire and The Art Of Making Faces, of original ‘songs that demonstrate a rare originality’ (MOJO) which often feature such musicians as Dave Pegg, Gerry Conway, Rabbit Bundrick (The Who keyboards), Simon Nicol and Clive Bunker.

A cartoonist as well, annA was specially commissioned to make the sleeve cover cartoons on Fairport’s album ‘What We Did On Our Saturday’.

2017 saw annA get together with talented singers and musicians Sally Barker and Marion Fleetwood to create IOTA. This trio combine to make original songs which are poignant, quirky, thought-provoking and humorous with sublime harmonies and top class musicianship – described by Julie Matthews as “Three brilliant musicians, singers and writers exuding an infectious joy of music. A force to be reckoned with.”

Sally and annA got together as a duo and released their album of original material ‘When I Wake Up’ in the autumn of 2019.
With touring dates for annA solo, with Sally, IOTA, and guesting with Ric Sanders & Vo Fletcher and others, she is quite a busy musician appearing in venues all over the UK and beyond.

2020/21
annA’s been writing songs, recording and making films for her songs.
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From the end of 2020 and into 2021 annA has been broadcasting live on Facebook doing her daily show ‘Elevenses’.

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With Sally Barker and Marion Fleetwood, annA is part of exciting touring trio IOTA performing original co-written material and she was also a member of the Fotheringay spin-off band THE SANDY DENNY PROJECT playing the songs of Sandy Denny and Fotheringay featuring PJ Wright and Sally from 2018 to 2023.

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annA has played all over the UK and Europe, from small clubs to large festivals and venues, including Cropredy Convention, and has recorded six albums, featuring some of British folk’s finest musicians including members of Fairport Convention. (with whom she has had a long-term musical relationship having written songs for them and performed with them on and off since 1999).

Attracting various invitations to perform and record with, and for many different artists, Anna is a musician’s musician –
Eddi Reader, (Julianne Regan) All About Eve
Jacqui McShee (Pentangle)
Fairport Convention
Rabbit Bundrick (Keyboards The Who),
Alan Thomson (John Martyn Band, Martin Barre Band),
Clive Bunker (ex-Jethro Tull)
Tom Leary (Feast of Fiddles & ex-Lindisfarne)
Spencer Cozens (keyboardist Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle & John Martyn Band)
Martin Brunsden (Hothouse Flowers)
Steve Tilston
Bob Fox
Nigel Stonier

Website: www.annaryder.co.uk
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