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STOURPORT: *POSTPONED TO AUTUMN* Music & Moving Pictures SOLO at The Worleys Swan

March 22, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

not much at all

annA rydeR’s Music & Moving Picture Tour

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.

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

NB We apologise that this date has been postponed until annA’s autumn tour which will take place during Oct/Nov of 2022. We have left this on annA’s events to alert you that it is no longer on March 22nd 2022. More time to book tickets!!

This is a new idea and has not been toured before but to see pre-tour tests and trailers/samples go here:


This pub is amazing and if you turn up early have some great food in their little bistro!
Phone the pub for details 01299 877832 or message https://www.facebook.com/worleysswan

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.”
“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 The Sandy Denny Project (new 6-piece band with Sally and Marion as well as PJ Wright 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.
AND
From the end of 2020 and into 2021 annA has been broadcasting live on Facebook doing her daily show ‘Elevenses’.

 

MORE INFO
NOW:

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.

MORE DETAIL:

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
YouTube: annA rydeR
Facebook: annA rydeR and Anna Ryder
Twitter: @_annArydeR
Inst: annarydermusic

 

 

Details

Date:
March 22, 2022
Time:
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Cost:
not much at all
Event Category:

Venue

Worleys At The Swan
56 High Street
Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire DY13 8BX
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Phone:
01299 877832
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/worleysswan/