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annA rydeR is a class act who charmed us last year and thrilled our audience so do come along, join what will be a fun evening, and support Live Music and the Cotswold Club!Tickets £8.00 on the door and you can pre-book a ticket by calling or texting your details to 07909076001
Doors open 7.00pm for 7.30pm start
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).
Fairport Convention recorded and performed her songs ‘Bring Me Back My Feathers’, ‘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 's albums, including Paper Girl, Pockets On Fire and The Art Of Making Faces, of original ‘songs that demonstrate a rare originality’ (MOJO) and often feature such musicians as Dave Pegg, Gerry Conway, Rabbit Bundrick (The Who keyboards), Simon Nicol and Clive Bunker (ex-Jethro Tull).
annA's FAT CHANCE SHOW, created with artist Nicky Cure, is a combination of her own songs and dedicated handmade films (art, stop-motion, cartoons and live-recorded action) making for a truly unique, multi-sensual experience,“Quite simply, unforgettable”. During 2022 and 2023 Fat Chance Show played 3 uk tours.
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.
annA was invited to join the reformed Fotheringay with original members Gerry Conway and Pat Donaldson in 2018 to play a fundraiser for Jerry Donahue. This then evolved into The Sandy Denny Project of which annA was a member up until 2023.
From the end of 2020 and into 2021 annA broadcast live on Facebook doing her daily show ‘Elevenses’ which went for 63 days almost continuously.
ELKS JUMPING HIGH is annA's latest venture.
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 with an ambition to write together.
This band, kind of an extension of annA and Nicky's Fat Chance Show, are entertaining for they contain such things as Cymbals Of Affection, Drum Of Cardboard, Swanage, Parpy things, Hats, More-than-One-Trumpet, Singists, Kolshi, Ordinary things and Don't Ask.
During 2024, amongst other gigs, annA spent a week on a river boat through Hungary, Solvakia, Austria and Germany on the Danube with Fairport Convention playing gigs solo and with the band as well as Mcing.
During this time, as well as playing lots of her own songs, she also performed The Blue Danube playing a straw - accompanied by the Strawkestra which consisted of the audience all with their own straws.
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Minchinhampton Cotswold Club, 11 High Street, Minchinhampton, GL6 9BN, GL6 9BN Stroud, United Kingdom, 1 High Street, Stroud, GL6 9BN, United Kingdom
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