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One of the queens of new American folk, Anais Mitchell will make a stop inRomeon May 17 as part of her 2012 European tour. She will perform at Crossroads Live Club (a.k.a. XRoads), one of the best nightclubs featuring live music in the Italian capital.
Anais Mitchell is an artist worth seeing even if you’re not a big fan of folk music. With an abundance of talent, intense and melancholic songs, and elaborate and deep lyrics, nobody who has the pleasure of hearing her can remain indifferent. A fan of Jane Austen and miniskirts, this girl fromVermontis the daughter of a writer and professor of English who was educated to have a passion for music, literature, and poetry. As a result, she began to write her first songs at age 17 when she began her studies in political science and languages. At 21, in 2002, she self-released her first album, which was recorded in one afternoon. The following year, she participated in the Kerrville Folk Festival and received the folk artist revelation award. Her second album, “Hymns for the Exiled (2004), was recorded on a small independent label inChicagoand attracted the attention of folk icon Ani DiFranco. Afterwards, her subsequent albums were produced by DiFranco’s label, Righteous Babe.
In 2006, Anais Mitchell undertook an original project, Hadestown, a kind of folk music which critics have dubbed opera folk. It is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. What started as something small and self-produced eventually became a tour with 22 musicians all over England. It was recorded in 2010 and featured collaborations with musicians such as Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Greg Brown and Ani DiFranco. The album was a critical phenomenon in Englandand made it into the lists of the best albums of 2010 for the Guardian, the Observer, and the Sunday Times, marking its internationally recognition.
Her fifth and latest work, which has just come out earlier this year, is titled “Young Man in America” and revolves around the recession that the U.S.has suffered in recent years. For the recording, Anais Mitchell has surrounded herself with great musicians: the drummers of Norah Jones and Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Jenny Scheinman, and guitarist Adam Levi, among others. One of Mitchell’s abilities is to lend a closeness and intimacy to the important issues about which she sings in her songs, as if speaking about her own life. You can hear this in the new album and experience it live if you attend the concert in Rome. Find more information about the concert on the Crossroads website: http://www.crossroadsliveclub.com/mitchell.html
The performance by Anais Mitchell is one of the musical highlights for the month of May in the Italian capital. Don´t wait to rent apartments in Rome so that you can enjoy one of the many possibilities that the nightlife there offers.
