Anais Mitchell

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From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. The daughter of ‘hippie back-to-the-landers’ whose father was a novelist and English professor, she remembers her family’s home containing “a library full of novels and lots of old folk and psychedelic albums.”

No surprise then that the reference points of her music may seem to come from all over the map while still interconnected: the country ballads of the Carter Family, cabaret of Brecht and Weill, Randy Newman, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and the intricately crafted tales of her namesake, bohemian feminist Anais Nin to name a few.

All of these influences come together in ‘Hadestown,’ Mitchell’s epic ‘folk opera’ retelling of the Orpheus myth, a new album made with an all-star cast including Ani DiFranco, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Greg Brown.