annA rydeR’s Music & Moving Picture Tour

Here is footage of the actual show taken on audience phones:

NB Private House Concert and on annA’s website for info only. However – if you want to see annA’s tour in this area, she is playing The Musician in Leicester on the afternoon of Sunday March 13th. More information.

If you want to book annA for a House Concert on this tour – this is how it works: A house concert works by people coming to someone’s house and the artist gets paid in donations from the audience. It is usually very nice and friendly and fun. Also intimate.

A music and moving imagery show – annA rydeR sings her songs with the exciting extra dimension of moving pictures : entertaining and atmospheric films made over the last two years in collaboration with artist Nicky Cure.

A mix of stop-motion, annA’s hand-drawn cartoons, Nicky’s art and real-life images and films – this will reflect annA’s diverse styles in her variety of songs. Some relate directly to the songs and others are atmospheric or curious or just there.

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

annA rydeR is a musical dynamo; an original and inventive singer-songwriter with a musical style that, although 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 set for several years, is annA’s song. They have also performed and recorded her songs ‘Sailing Boat’ and ‘The Crowd’.

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.”

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

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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 is also in the new Fotheringay spin-off band THE SANDY DENNY PROJECT playing the songs of Sandy Denny and Fotheringay featuring PJ Wright and Sally.

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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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