1. Anna Phoebe McElligott was born on 18 February 1981 and is a London-based violinist, composer, and broadcaster who performs in musical genres including contemporary classical, rock, folk, jazz, Celtic, and Middle Eastern music.
13 Facts About Anna Phoebe
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Anna Phoebe was born in Hamburg, West Germany, to a Greek-Irish historian father and a German children's social worker mother.
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Anna Phoebe began playing the violin at the age of seven, encouraged by her mother, who is a violinist.
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Anna Phoebe read social policy and government at the London School of Economics.
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Anna Phoebe toured in 2008 as part of the band, including three-month tours each Christmas through 26 states of western and central USA.
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Anna Phoebe performed nearly 70 dates in arenas to audiences of up to 15,000 people; venues included the American Airlines Center in Dallas, the Save Mart Center in Fresno, HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, and the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
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Anna Phoebe has appeared on various television shows, including Top of the Pops, The Michael Parkinson Show, MTV and GMTV; as well as at music festivals, including Glastonbury and The Big Chill.
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Anna Phoebe was a guest star in 2007's "Jethro Tull World Tour", after an approach by Ian Anderson, and appeared on several occasions in later years with Anderson and his band.
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Anna Phoebe toured with Jon Lord as his violinist, with performances in Russia and Sicily, and after his death took part in the tribute Sunflower Jam which was held at London's Royal Albert Hall in July 2011.
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Anna Phoebe appeared on the Sky Arts show Tony Visconti's Unsigned Heroes in 2017.
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Anna Phoebe released her second solo album on iTunes, titled Rise of the Warrior.
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In 2019, Anna Phoebe formed the duo AVAWAVES with Berlin-based composer, producer and pianist Aisling Brouwer.
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Anna Phoebe is married to former BBC news presenter Gavin Esler, his second wife.