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“Ms. Mitchell's songs address contemporary angst with uncanny vision... a formidable songwriting talent" THE NEW YORK TIMES 

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“One of the greatest songwriters of her generation” NPR

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“A national treasure; one of our great modern singer-songwriters” TIME OUT

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“The most engaging, and in some ways, most original artist currently working in the field of new American ‘folk ’music” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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“A charismatic live performer, and a songwriter of exceptional imagination and perception” THE GUARDIAN

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“Terrific….Mitchell is a skilled storyteller..and her delivery gives an emotional complexity that welcomes and even demands repeated listens.” PITCHFORK

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"Mitchell is writing material that stands comparison with the great singer-songwriters of the past few decades" DAILY TELEGRAPH

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BIOGRAPHY
 

Anaïs Mitchell is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter and the Tony and Grammy award-winning creator of the Broadway musical Hadestown. She was named to TIME's prestigious TIME100 list in 2020, and her first book, Working On A Song - The Lyrics of Hadestown was published by Penguin/Plume in the same year. Dubbed by NPR as 'one of the greatest songwriters of her generation;', Mitchell comes from the world of narrative folksong, poetry and balladry. Among her recorded works are the original 2010 studio album of Hadestown, a folk opera based on the Orpheus myth; 2012's Young Man in America, which was described by the UK's Independent as 'an epic tale of American becoming’; 2013’s Child Ballads, a collaboration with Jefferson Hamer, which won a BBC Radio Two Folk Award, Bonny Light Horseman (as part of the band Bonny Light Horseman) and Anais Mitchell (2022). Mitchell has headlined shows worldwide and her music has featured in year-end best lists including NPR, Wall Street Journal, MOJO, Uncut, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer..

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Mitchell's stage show of Hadestown, which was over a decade in the making, was first produced off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop and in Canada at Edmonton's The Citadel, with record-breaking runs at both. In 2018 the show opened at London's National Theatre, before transferring to Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in April 2019.  The show went on to win 8 Tony Awards, the highest of any show that season, including Best Musical and Best Score for Mitchell. The New York Times called it “inventive, beguiling and spellbinding” while Vogue declared that “Hadestown will be your new theater obsession.”  If there’s a common thread in Mitchell’s work – from her earliest acoustic records to the Hadestown show – it’s that she’s as interested in the world around her as the one inside her. She has a way of tackling big themes with the same emotional intimacy most artists use to describe their inner lives. That’s perhaps why the New York Times noted that her songs “address contemporary angst with uncanny vision…. a formidable songwriting talent.” 

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