So Where To Today?

Birmingham

What: Anna Ryder @ The Old Post Office

When: Saturday August 16 15:00

We’re back at this great gig! It’s free in a lovely pub which used to be a Post Office.

Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter annA rydeR having worked with all sorts of people from Fairport Convention and Clive Bunker (drums ex-Jethro Tull) to Eddi Reader and Julianne Regan has now formed this outfit with bassist, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Carol Whitworth and Fat Chance co-producer/ percussionist/ SFXist Nicky Cure. Elks Jumping High mainly play annA’s songs but you never know with an artist and another songwriter in the band. Elks Jumping High, kind of an extension of annA and Nicky’s award-winning songs & films Fat Chance Show, are entertaining, surreal, quirky, fun for they contain such things as Cymbals Of Affection, Cardboard Box of Doubt, Stylophone of Embarrassment, Swanage, Parpy things, Tambourine of Doom, Hats, More-than-One-Trumpet, Singists, Kolshi, Ordinary things and Don’t Ask.

QUOTES: “You definitely get the most smiles per gallon” Dave Male – musician, DJ and Brubl Brewery “I wasn’t expecting to but I enjoyed it” Glen Elliott - cynic

How Much:

Who: Anna Ryder

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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