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Anne Briggs | |
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| Birth name | Anne Patricia Briggs |
| Born | 29 September 1944 Toton, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1963–1973, 1990, 1993 |
Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944)[1] is an English folk singer. Although she travelled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in Britain and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music. However, she was an influential figure in the British folk revival, being a source of songs and musical inspiration for others such as A. L. Lloyd, Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, The Watersons, June Tabor, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, and Maddy Prior.[2]
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 326. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ Thomson, Graeme (October 2007). "Anne of Folk Fables". Record Collector. 341: 30–32.