Anna Ling is a Devon-based singer-songwriter who produces and records alt-folk from her yurt by the River Dart.

Her debut album Light, “oozing musical and lyrical delicacy” (Songlines), has featured on BBC Radio 2’s The Folk Show, BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks (twice), and was chosen as Folk Radio’s Album of the Week.

Light includes collaborations with boci, Briony Greenhill, Misha Mullov-Abbado (Cosmo Sheldrake, Sam Lee), and Isis Wolf-Light (Hedera, Opa Rosa).

Anna’s recent tour was a sell-out success, with shows at Cambridge Junction, Green Note (London), Ciromedia (Bristol), and Plymouth Barbican Theatre. She has also performed at Cambridge Folk Festival, WOMAD, Medicine Festival, and Fire in the Mountains.

She has received the Help Musicians Next Level Award and the Arts Council DYCP Award.

Press Quotes

• “Light is the key word here - light casting out rays of hope under the shadows of uncertain, dystopian times. It’s a warm-hearted set, oozing musical and lyrical delicacy, while avoiding the kind of mytho-poetic excess that can easily run amok”. Songlines

• “Anna pushes the edges of contemporary folk and creates music which offers something beyond some of the safer more conventional albums which have appeared this year." Fatea

•  “Marrying the mundane with the mythic” Sara Mohr Pietsch Night Tracks BBC Radio 3

• “Mesmerising” BBC Introducing

• “Captivatingly visceral and descriptive.” — York Calling

• “This album, Light, is the most original and unique collection of songs I have heard for a long long time.” — Get Ready To Rock