Anaïs Mitchell, the esteemed singer-songwriter whose Broadway smash "Hadestown" won 8 awards, including Best Musical, at the 2019 Tony Awards, is joined on this one-of-a-kind tour by Bonny Light Horseman, a folk supergroup trio comprised of Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson (best known for his project Fruit Bats and stints with The Shins), and Josh Kaufman (instrumentalist and producer known for his work with Hiss Golden Messenger, Bob Weir, The National). Bonny Light Horseman will perform selections from their two-time Grammy nominated album of traditional folk songs with a contemporary twist, before Anaïs takes to the stage to share songs from her forthcoming album as well as from her back catalogue of audience-favorites on this unique, collaborative tour.
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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 (another farmhouse in the same state) containing "library full of novels, and lots of old folk and psychedelic rock albums. The books and the records all lived in the same room, which I am sure led to me thinking of songwriting as a kind of literature, a noble poetic enterprise."
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, the hard-edged cabaret of Brecht and Weill, the story-songs of Randy Newman, the vast narrative scope of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the intricately crafted tales of her namesake, bohemian feminist Anaïs Nin, to name a few.
Anaïs Mitchell is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc's worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She's a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
Bhi Bhiman is an American singer/songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He writes songs soaked in the grand folk tradition, penning both passionate protest songs and tender love songs with style. His skill is in stitching his music with a subtle sort of political consciousness that doesn't feel like homework to the listener. His love songs are always sweet with a touch of sad, while his protest songs range from laugh-out-loud funny to quiet-a-chatty-bar chilling. But so what? There are tens of thousands of singer-songwriters in America attempting just that -- but they don't sing like Bhi Bhiman. He belts out his songs with a voice thatâEUR(TM)s more sixties soul and Nina Simone than the semi-precious singing often associated with modern folk.
Bhiman's forthcoming record features epic road ballads ("Guttersnipe"), Johnny Cash-style country tunes ("Crime of Passion" and "Ballerina"), Afro-pop numbers ("Time Heals") and tongue-and-cheek work songs ("Kimchee Line"). Recorded at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone and produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), the self-titled "BHIMAN" will be out this fall.
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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 (another farmhouse in the same state) containing "library full of novels, and lots of old folk and psychedelic rock albums. The books and the records all lived in the same room, which I am sure led to me thinking of songwriting as a kind of literature, a noble poetic enterprise."
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, the hard-edged cabaret of Brecht and Weill, the story-songs of Randy Newman, the vast narrative scope of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the intricately crafted tales of her namesake, bohemian feminist Anaïs Nin, to name a few.
Anaïs Mitchell is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc's worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She's a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
Bhi Bhiman is an American singer/songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He writes songs soaked in the grand folk tradition, penning both passionate protest songs and tender love songs with style. His skill is in stitching his music with a subtle sort of political consciousness that doesn't feel like homework to the listener. His love songs are always sweet with a touch of sad, while his protest songs range from laugh-out-loud funny to quiet-a-chatty-bar chilling. But so what? There are tens of thousands of singer-songwriters in America attempting just that -- but they don't sing like Bhi Bhiman. He belts out his songs with a voice thatâEUR(TM)s more sixties soul and Nina Simone than the semi-precious singing often associated with modern folk.
Bhiman's forthcoming record features epic road ballads ("Guttersnipe"), Johnny Cash-style country tunes ("Crime of Passion" and "Ballerina"), Afro-pop numbers ("Time Heals") and tongue-and-cheek work songs ("Kimchee Line"). Recorded at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone and produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), the self-titled "BHIMAN" will be out this fall.
Anaïs Mitchell, the esteemed singer-songwriter whose Broadway smash "Hadestown" won 8 awards, including Best Musical, at the 2019 Tony Awards, is joined on this one-of-a-kind tour by Bonny Light Horseman, a folk supergroup trio comprised of Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson (best known for his project Fruit Bats and stints with The Shins), and Josh Kaufman (instrumentalist and producer known for his work with Hiss Golden Messenger, Bob Weir, The National). Bonny Light Horseman will perform selections from their two-time Grammy nominated album of traditional folk songs with a contemporary twist, before Anaïs takes to the stage to share songs from her forthcoming album as well as from her back catalogue of audience-favorites on this unique, collaborative tour.
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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 (another farmhouse in the same state) containing "library full of novels, and lots of old folk and psychedelic rock albums. The books and the records all lived in the same room, which I am sure led to me thinking of songwriting as a kind of literature, a noble poetic enterprise."
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, the hard-edged cabaret of Brecht and Weill, the story-songs of Randy Newman, the vast narrative scope of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the intricately crafted tales of her namesake, bohemian feminist Anaïs Nin, to name a few.
Anaïs Mitchell is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc's worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She's a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
Bhi Bhiman is an American singer/songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He writes songs soaked in the grand folk tradition, penning both passionate protest songs and tender love songs with style. His skill is in stitching his music with a subtle sort of political consciousness that doesn't feel like homework to the listener. His love songs are always sweet with a touch of sad, while his protest songs range from laugh-out-loud funny to quiet-a-chatty-bar chilling. But so what? There are tens of thousands of singer-songwriters in America attempting just that -- but they don't sing like Bhi Bhiman. He belts out his songs with a voice thatâEUR(TM)s more sixties soul and Nina Simone than the semi-precious singing often associated with modern folk.
Bhiman's forthcoming record features epic road ballads ("Guttersnipe"), Johnny Cash-style country tunes ("Crime of Passion" and "Ballerina"), Afro-pop numbers ("Time Heals") and tongue-and-cheek work songs ("Kimchee Line"). Recorded at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone and produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), the self-titled "BHIMAN" will be out this fall.
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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 (another farmhouse in the same state) containing "library full of novels, and lots of old folk and psychedelic rock albums. The books and the records all lived in the same room, which I am sure led to me thinking of songwriting as a kind of literature, a noble poetic enterprise."
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, the hard-edged cabaret of Brecht and Weill, the story-songs of Randy Newman, the vast narrative scope of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the intricately crafted tales of her namesake, bohemian feminist Anaïs Nin, to name a few.
Anaïs Mitchell is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc's worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She's a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger.
Bhi Bhiman is an American singer/songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He writes songs soaked in the grand folk tradition, penning both passionate protest songs and tender love songs with style. His skill is in stitching his music with a subtle sort of political consciousness that doesn't feel like homework to the listener. His love songs are always sweet with a touch of sad, while his protest songs range from laugh-out-loud funny to quiet-a-chatty-bar chilling. But so what? There are tens of thousands of singer-songwriters in America attempting just that -- but they don't sing like Bhi Bhiman. He belts out his songs with a voice thatâEUR(TM)s more sixties soul and Nina Simone than the semi-precious singing often associated with modern folk.
Bhiman's forthcoming record features epic road ballads ("Guttersnipe"), Johnny Cash-style country tunes ("Crime of Passion" and "Ballerina"), Afro-pop numbers ("Time Heals") and tongue-and-cheek work songs ("Kimchee Line"). Recorded at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone and produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim), the self-titled "BHIMAN" will be out this fall.
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