Biography

Anna Rheingans is an award-winning musician, composer and textile artist from the Peak District. Based in the UK and France, Anna plays in various projects, regularly tours across the UK and Europe, teaches privately and does session work. She plays 5-string Banjo, Voice, Tambourin à Cordes and Flabuta, and loves to combine and explore the ways that 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 embroidering words and images.

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