Anne Gair
We are delighted to welcome the wonderful Anne Gair to Pickering during the tour for her gorgeous debut album of original songs, which has already received wide praise.
Anne’s music is a heady mix of genres with nods to indie folk, country americana, blues and jazz, with strong vocal melody lines and a penchant for harmony and open tunings.
Anne played at The International Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow in January 2025, releasing her debut single Steal Away that same month.
Her debut album Cigarettes and Smokescreens was chosen as Album of the Week on Celtic Music Radio in November 2025, and went on to be nominated for Album of the Year. Anne’s fifth single, Blank Spaces, was included in the Fatea Winter Sessions 2025.
Originally trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Anne has toured widely on stage performing both Joni Mitchell covers as well as her own original material, and is endorsed by Cole Clark Guitars and G7th Capos.
(Anne’s) voice is beautiful, just gorgeous — Nerina Pallot
Drinks will be available to purchase at an informal bar before the show and during the interval. The concert will be in our atmospheric upstairs event space, surrounded by the building’s old oak beams.
Doors will open from 7pm, and the performance will start at 7.30pm.
Tickets can be booked below, by contacting Pickering Book Tree, or at the shop counter. We hope to see you there!
About the Musician
In Cigarettes and Smokescreens Gair has delivered a remarkable debut … it flows as confidently as the incoming tide — Neil King, Fatea Magazine
With an extensive performance history, Anne has toured throughout the UK and abroad both as a solo artist and lately with her ensemble, The Anne Gair Band. She has played at prestigious venues including The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Celtic Connections 2025), The 100 Club, The Cavern Club, The Hard Rock Cafe, The Voodoo Rooms, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Belladrum Tartan Heart festival, and regularly performs to sold-out audiences in venues and theatres across the country.
Anne possesses a passion for writing in alternative open tunings and pushing genre boundaries which has drawn comparison to Laura Marling, Joni Mitchell, John Martyn, and Imelda May, as she lets each song breathe and travel where it needs to go.
Anne Gair’s contributions to new music make her an up-and-coming artist being touted as ‘One of Scotland’s most promising songwriters’.
When not on stage, you will usually find her in a field in Scotland, in the middle of no-where with her two retired horses.
What a lovely song, beautifully written. A masterpiece — Paul Johnson, writing for Folking.com about the single White Horses
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