Anais Mitchell

Royal Albert Hall: Elgar Room, Kensington Gore, London
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This event ended on Tuesday 18th of February 2014
Admission
£16.50
Venue Information
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
South Kensington 0.52 miles

Anaïs Mitchell is first and foremost a storyteller. Among her recorded works are five full-length albums, including 2010's sensationally-reviewed Hadestown, a folk opera based on the Orpheus myth, and 2012's Young Man in America, which was described by The Independent as 'an epic tale of American becoming' and for which she received a BBC Radio Two Folk Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Mitchell has headlined worldwide as well as supporting tours for Bon Iver, Ani Difranco, The Low Anthem (all of whom appear as guest singers on Hadestown), Richard Thompson, Josh Ritter and Punch Brothers. Her most recent release, Child Ballads, a collaboration with Jefferson Hamer, is a collection of traditional Celtic and British Isles ballads.

If there's a common thread in Mitchell's work, from her earliest acoustic records, to the Hadestown opera, to this new chapter, 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.

This event takes place in the Elgar Room and is general admission standing. Enter via Door 6.

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