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 bluegrass band, The Creekers. She met The Creekers and recorded on their acclaimed full length album, "Pour Me in the Creek", released at The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2024. The Creekers also just released their new EP "River Rat" in 2025. Some performance highlights include Spirit in the Bluegrass Festival, Master Musicians Festival, Laurel Cove Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, The Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival, North Springs Music Festival, sold out The Burl in Lexington, and opened for Rhonda Vincent at Renfro Valley. After going viral on TikTok, the band started a new partnership with WME Booking Agency.

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2025 kicked off most impressively with an audition in Pasadena, CA for America's Got Talent with Bill Taylor & The Appalachian Heatherns. The band performed in front of a live audience and the judges panel including Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara, and Mel B. All four judges voted yes with over 20 million views on AGT's social media videos of the performance. Anna has played with numerous shows with Bill including Pickin in the Backwoods, Laurel Cove Music Festival, and more.

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Other 2025 highlights include playing with Josh Mitcham at the Gulf Coast Jam opening for the Red Clay Strays and Tyler Childers and playing WFPK Waterfront Wednesday with Candi Jenkins for the first time in Anna's hometown.

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​Anna was a member of Tim Goodin's backing band, The Blue Gems, from 2022 to 2025 and played Laurel Cove Music Festival, Festival of the Red, North Springs Music Festival, Healing Appalachia, Little Sandy Shakedown, Renfro Valley, and more. In 2025 they played the Mountain Laurel Festival opening for Shenandoah. 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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Other regional artists Anna has played with includes touring with Tony Logue's band from 2022-2023 promoting his album 'Jericho' across the eastern United States, Arianna and the Bourbon Britches from 2023-2025, and Shannon Vetter and The Sleepless Pilgrims from 2023-2025.

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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 2016-2017 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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One of the first successful bands Anna performed with was Louisville, KY based all female band, Southern Sirens, who toured the US and Canada. Anna performed with this group from 2013-2016.

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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.