Biography

Anna Rheingans is an award-winning musician, composer, songwriter and textile artist from the Peak District. Based in the UK and France, Anna performs with various projects, regularly tours across the UK and Europe, teaches privately and does session work. She plays violin, 5-string Banjo, Tambourin à Cordes, Flabuta, and sings. Over the last 15 years, Anna has studied in depth the musical traditions of Sweden, Norway and Southern France. She loves to combine and explore the ways that musical traditions compliment each other but also strongly distinguish themselves. 

Anna’s textile work is based on personalising and inventing fair-isle knitting motifs, inspired by landscapes and tradition. She designs and makes wearable products for her brand Got Knits? and also invites personal design commissions. Anna is particularly interested in using natural and recycled materials, and giving unique garments or objects personal meaning, often through embroidered words and images.

In 2025, Anna is performing her first ever solo show in a series of exclusive concerts around the UK, showcasing a new body of work that she has created, including new original songs and instrumental pieces.

Anna is currently touring the fifth Rheingans Sisters album Start Close In, which was released in September 2024 and reached #2 in the Guardian's Best Folk Albums of 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/16/10-best-folk-albums-of-2024