Anna Blanton grew up in Greenville, IN and currently resides in Ramsey, IN. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with emphasis in violin performance and a minor in marketing from the University of Louisville. Her private teachers include J. Patrick Rafferty, Jeff Guernsey, and Catherine Moeller-Cunanan. 

 

Anna now enjoys a busy performance career and owns Kentuckiana Music Center, a music school in New Albany, IN.

 

Anna Blanton is an Artist Partner of NS Design Electric Instruments and Nicola Brand Strings.

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Anna currently plays for country singer/songwriter, Tim Goodin & The Blue Gems; folk rock band, Arianna & The Bourbon Britches; bluegrass band, The Creekers; and folk rock band, Shannon Vetter & The Sleepless Pilgrims.

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2024 is looking to be an exciting year with these various projects. Anna performed with The Sleepless Pilgrims at Poorcastle Festival and Big Stomp Festival along side many accomplished regional musicians. They are looking forward to being on the bill at Moonshiner's Ball and Brouhaha Indie Rock Festival this fall!

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The Bourbon Britches will also be on the Brouhaha bill with Shannon Vetter & The Sleepless Pilgrims as well as having played Hollergirl Music Festival, Fuzzy Pig Festival, the New Albany Bicentennial Series, and opened for Sundy Best. 

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​Earlier in 2024 Anna recorded on The Creeker's acclaimed new album, "Pour Me in the Creek", released at The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. The Creekers also performed at Spirit in the Bluegrass Festival at the Kentucky Horse Park. In April they performed at Renfro Valley opening for Rhonda Vincent. Tim Goodin & The Blue Gems also headlined Renfro Valley's Old Barn Theatre in February and performed at the sold out Laurel Cove Music Festival in June. 

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Anna is a member of Tim's backing band, The Blue Gems, and has played Laurel Cove Music Festival, Festival of the Red, North Springs Music Festival, Healing Appalachia, Little Sandy Shakedown, and more. New Years Eve 2022 Anna performed with Tim Goodin as a duo at The Caverns opening for The Steel Woods and Cole Chaney.

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Anna Blanton played in Tony Logue's band in 2022 promoting his album 'Jericho' across the eastern United States.

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In 2019 Anna recorded and played fiddle for the wedding scene of the Hallmark movie 'JL Family Ranch 2' starring Jon Voigt, Bo Derek, Teri Polo, and James Caan. She was also featured that same year on the Jerry Springer podcast along side her Jericho Woods bandmate, Josh Mitcham.

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In 2018 and 2019 she was the fiddler for acclaimed Kentucky country band, Jericho Woods. She toured extensively with them across the US. The were voted Kentucky Living Magazine's Favorite Kentucky band numerous years in a row.

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April of 2018 Anna was part of a 52 piece orchestra that recorded Bear McCreary's "The Professor and The MadMan" movie soundtrack starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn. 

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In 2017 Anna toured on fiddle and mandolin with Canadian folk singer/songwriter, Colter Wall, in the US, Canada, and Europe. In May 2019 she performed at Red Rocks for a special guest appearance.

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She has performed with numerous regional orchestras since 2011 including the Paducah Symphony and Orchestra Kentucky.

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Anna performed at 'Abbey Road on the River' from 2010-2021 in the KaLeidoscope I's backup string section where they've shared the stage with 2x Grammy Winner Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney's Wings), The Orchestra (former members of ELO), and Ambrosia. 

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In 2016 and 2017 she partnered with Kentucky Shakespeare on their productions of Twelfth Night and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead under the music direction of Jack Ashworth.

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She's also performed in the backup orchestras for Michael Buble, Hanson, Michael Bolton, Josh Groban, Sara Evans, Steven Curtis Chapman, Evanescence, Lindsey Stirling, Disturbed, 2 Cellos, Celtic Thunder, and The Trans-Siberian Orchestra.