Category: News
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2023 Tour booking
I’m excited to be booking several tours in Autumn 2023, first in the Eastern USA, then Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) followed shortly afterwards by concerts in Belgium, Netherlands and Northern Germany. I’ll be performing at the Maryland Renaissance Festival the weekends of 7–8 and 14–15 October and am planning to give concerts in New…
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Virginia – new tune
Here’s a new tune ‘Virginia’ written whilst on tour in the US – please enjoy it and let me know if you play it 🙂 It’s for nyckelharpa, fiddle or anything else that wants to. Anna xx
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Hatching Hares Album Tour – UK dates announced!
UK tour dates announced for the launch of my new album Hatching Hares! Ticket links are here and please tell all your friends and family! See you on the road!Anna xx
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Thanksgiving Waltz
Here’s a tune I’ve written for Thanksgiving. I was thinking of the peace, calm and gratitude felt after gathering in the harvest; so this is a gentle, lilting waltz. It was written with bass viol in mind, as you’ll hear on the recording, though I expect it would transpose for other viola da gambas and…
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Netherlands Tour announced!
I’m delighted to be performing seven concerts in the Netherlands this Nov/Dec! It will be a such a treat to be back on the road – book tickets here!
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Marie Plancher – the happiest Belgian tune!
One of my wonderful supporters on patreon – Amedee Van Gasse – suggested this tune to me and I cannot think of it without dancing, it is so happy. I’ve made a few variations for nyckelharpa so please download the file below if you would like to play them – and let me know if…
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The Art of Handing Down Early Music – Bright Young Folk
I’m delighted to be asked for an interview with Michele Mele of Bright Young Folk here’s a transcript and you can see it on their website here. After the rapturous response received both by her web series Folk from the Boat and her work with Wilde Roses, multi-instrumentalist and singer Anna Tam recently released her…
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Tykes Stirrings review!
Really lovely review by Nigel Schofield in the Summer/Autumn 2021 Tykes Stirrings Magazine! And I’m more than delighted with the description: ‘one could almost be listening to vintage Kate Bush gone folkie’! ‘Anna shines a new light on these songs’‘Her voice is pure, with an astonishing and very precise range’‘the interpretations are fresh and fascinating’
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Around Kent Folk review!
‘I was becoming entranced by her arrangements and her voice’ Alan Castle, Around Kent Folk Delighted with the kind words in the June/July 2021 edition of Around Kent Folk! The whole magazine is here: https://issuu.com/tente…/docs/2021-06_around_kent_folk_web
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Folk London Magazine review!
‘The compelling quality of Anna’s confident storytelling-in-song is apparent right from the outset’ A lovely review from David Kidman for Folk London in the June/July 2021 magazine! Anna Tam – Anchoress – Tam Records TAM002 You’ll have come across the Mediaeval Baebes, an all-female early music ensemble with occasional folk leanings. Once upon a time…
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Northern Sky Magazine review!
An absolutely lovely review of Anchoress from Northern Sky Magazine, and I’m particularly delighted to be compared to one of my favourite groups Dead Can Dance! Anna Tam – Anchoress | Tam Records | Review by Marc Higgins Folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Anna Tam, member of The Mediaeval Baebes and more recently Wilde Roses, has…
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Blow, northerne wynd
A brilliant suggestion from one of my patrons – to set Blow, northerne wynd, a beautiful medieval love lyric. It is written in a manuscript dating to the first half of the 14th century – MS Harley 2253, now in the British Library – which contains most of the love lyrics that survive before Chaucer.…