Ddescribed as a musical dynamo, annA is 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 one appreciative audience meember, “paints great songs”.

She’s played with and for many different artists including Fairport Convention, Eddi Reader and Julianne Regan (All about Eve)and has made several albums, including Paper Girl, Pockets On Fire and The Art Of Making Faces, which often feature such musicians as Dave Pegg, Gerry Conway, Rabbit Bundrick (The Who keyboards), Simon Nicol and Clive Bunker.

Also a cartoonist, annA was specially commissioned to draw the sleeve cover cartoons on Fairport Convention’s album What We Did On Our Saturday.