On Saturday I had the pleasure of performing a special show for one of my most staunch supporters, the Radford family. Mark and his family kindly donated towards my Kickstarter campaign for the new EP, and part of their pledge included a live show just for them. I have to say it was really lovely meeting them, and also exploring our family connections as Mark discovered me through the genealogy website 'Ansestry' (it turns out we're fourth cousins!). Not only did they enjoy the music (thankfully! Always nerve racking when planning to fans who know all your songs, and lyrics!) but we also had a chance to talk about our family connection with none other than the Boleyn family!! Yes, it turns out we are directly descended from Anne Boleyns aunt Margaret Boleyn and the Sackville family! There you go, officially descended from royalty......!!

Anna

http://soundcheque.com

I'm very pleased to announce that I'm a featured artist of the week on Souncheque! Have a little look at their home page and you'll see me there! http://soundcheque.com 

#newmusicfridays

A huge thumbs up and thank you to all the team at BASCA for a wonderful party and networking event on Tuesday. So good to catch up with some familiar faces, and meet some new! Here's to making more connections! I'll leave this below for you to 'spot the songwriters'!

Dan Moore (BASCA), Jona Lewie, Keith Aimes (MU), Gary Osbourne & Gavin Miller (Kazbar Systems).

Hi folks, 

I'm doing my one and only show in London tomorrow for Glasswerk at Surya in Kings Cross. Tickets are £4 in advance. Details below!

The Late Show with Dan Chisholm

Today I'm heading off to Swindon to perform at the Roaring Donkey (on stage at 10pm), and to debut one, possibly two, of the tracks from the forthcoming EP 'Free Falling'! There's nothing more exciting than hearing your own new material being broadcast on the radio so I'm really looking forward to this! 

Tune in to The Late Show with Dan Chisholm across the whole of the West Country on BBC Somerset, BBC Wiltshire, BBC Radio Gloucester, BBC Radio Bristol, or online here from 10pm tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034rf89

If you miss the program you'll also be able to catch up via iPlayer.

See you on the other side!!

Anna 

Embracing the electric, and a bit of soul..... #recording #studio #telecaster #funk #pop #freefalling with @skylinestudiosuk

Day one at Skyline Studios for the new EP 'Free Falling'. We raised £445 through Kickstarter, thank you all sooooooo much! Here I am adding a bit of funk to the title track!  

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Today I'll be playing at Artree's Festival of Folk at South Hill Park Arts Centre at 3.30pm. I'm on the same bill as Cara Dillon and Blair Dunlop so I'm pretty excited!! Come along for a great afternoon and evening of live music!  

http://festivaloffolk.artree.org.uk/phone/index.html

Don't forget you can still 'pledge' towards the new EP 'Free Falling' via Kickstart! We've made £395 so far which is AMAZING! Thank you all so much!! X

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annaneale/free-falling-ep

The Kickstarter campaign for the new EP 'Free Falling' is now live! It's been a long time coming but I'm finally in a position to start recording a four track EP of new songs, some of them pretty different but all fun (I've been deserting my Guitars in favour of the space of the Piano!)! Please do support, without you, it won't happen! Xx

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annaneale/free-falling-ep?ref=video

This weekend I headed over to Bath so do some co-writing with this fabulous chap, James Warren. James wrote the song 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' (You Tube it, you'll know it!) and was one half of the band 'The Korgis'. We had a really great, fun, productive session, with lots of ideas bouncing about, it's the most fun I've had writing in ages! Along with David Lord who's produced Peter Gabriel and Tears for Fears no less, we even came up with a finished song (plus half of another!).....and to top it off David is Jali Fily Cissokho's brother in law....what are the chances??

Can't wait for you to hear the finished product, and hopefully more to come! Here's to finding a brilliant co-writing partner!

Anna x