Anna Ryder

Turn up and drink beer! Amazing! This is a free gig but the band still gets paid! 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 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.