Английская Википедия:Anaïs Mitchell

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Anaïs Mitchell (Шаблон:IPAc-en; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including Hadestown (2010), Young Man in America (2012), Child Ballads (2013), and Anaïs Mitchell (2022).

She developed her album Hadestown into a stage musical (together with director Rachel Chavkin), which received its US debut at New York Theatre Workshop in summer 2016, and its Canadian debut at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton the following year. The show opened at London's National Theatre in November 2018 and then on Broadway on April 17, 2019, at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The Broadway production of Hadestown won eight Tony Awards in 2019 including the Tony Award for Best Musical. Mitchell received the Tony Award for Best Original Score; she was also nominated for Best Book of a Musical. The Broadway cast album of the show took home the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2020. Mitchell's first book, Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown, was published by Plume Books on October 6, 2020. Mitchell was included in [[Time 100|TimeШаблон:'s 100]] Most Influential People of 2020.

Mitchell is a member of the band Bonny Light Horseman, whose self-titled debut was released in 2020. The band's second album, "Golden Rolling Holy", was released in 2022.

Early life

Mitchell's father is a novelist and college professor and named her after author Anaïs Nin. She grew up on Treleven farm in Addison County, Vermont. She was raised Quaker. Her mother was Deputy Secretary of Vermont's Agency of Human Services. After traveling to the Middle East, Europe and Latin America as a child, she attended Middlebury College.

Career

Having begun writing her first songs at the age of 17, around 1998, Mitchell won the New Folk award in 2003, when she was 22, at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Her album Hymns for the Exiled was released on Chicago's Waterbug Records label in 2004. This recording attracted the attention of singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who signed her to the Righteous Babe Records label.

In 2006, Mitchell debuted a draft of her "folk opera" Hadestown, which she wrote in collaboration with arranger Michael Chorney and director Ben T. Matchstick. A revised version of Hadestown was staged in 2007. Her third album, The Brightness, was released that same year on Righteous Babe Records.

Her album Hadestown, produced by Todd Sickafoose, was released in spring 2010 to favorable reviews. Described as "the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in post-apocalyptic Depression-era America, the album includes guest appearances by Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Ben Knox Miller of The Low Anthem, and The Haden Triplets (Petra, Rachel, and Tanya Haden).

Mitchell continued quietly working on a stage version of Hadestown while also writing and recording new material. In early 2012, she released Young Man in America on Wilderland Records. Mitchell opened the North American leg of Bon Iver's autumn 2012 tour, which included two sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall. The album was largely praised by critics as "genre-defying" and her "second consecutive masterpiece."

In late 2012, Mitchell completed recording seven songs from the collection of Child Ballads, compiled by Francis James Child, with fellow musician Jefferson Hamer. The album, produced by Gary Paczosa, was released in February 2013, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Song. This was followed in 2014 by xoa, for which Mitchell re-recorded a number of her older songs using only guitar and vocals. This stripped back album included some songs from Hadestown which were recorded for the first time in Mitchell's own voice, as well as three brand new songs.

In summer 2016, the newly expanded theatrical version of Hadestown opened at New York Theatre Workshop with Vogue magazine predicting that "Hadestown will be your next musical theatre obsession". The following year, it received its Canadian premiere at The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, and in April 2018, London's National Theatre announced that it would present a three-month run during the winter ahead of the show's Broadway transfer. Hadestown opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 17, 2019.

In 2019, Mitchell was appearing as part of a three-piece "supergroup" called Bonny Light Horseman, consisting of herself, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats and guitarist Josh Kaufman. The group's self-titled debut album was released on January 24, 2020.

In June 2021, American supergroup Big Red Machine announced their second studio album, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?, which features Mitchell's guest vocals in three of its tracks: "Latter Days", "Phoenix", and "New Auburn".

Personal life

Mitchell married Noah Hahn in 2006. They have two daughters, Ramona and Rosetta.

Reception

Mitchell has received favorable reviews on her musical style, sound and performance. An article in Acoustic Guitar magazine calls Mitchell "fearlessly emotive" and compares her to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch. The UK's Independent newspaper called her "the most engaging, and in some ways, most original artist currently working in the field of new American folk music" The New York Times noted that "Ms Mitchell's songs address contemporary angst with uncanny vision" and called her "a formidable songwriting talent".

Discography

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected information

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Folk	US Heat	SCO	UK Amer.	UK DL	UK Indie
The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell	Released: 2002 Label: Self-released Formats: CD	—	—	—	—	–	–
Hymns for the Exiled	Released: September 21, 2004 Label: Waterbug Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—	—	–	–
The Brightness	Released: February 13, 2007 Label: Righteous Babe Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—	—	–	–
Hadestown	Released: March 9, 2010 Label: Righteous Babe Formats: CD, digital download, LP	9	33	—	—	–	–
Young Man in America	Released: February 13, 2012 Label: Wilderland, Thirty Tigers Formats: CD, digital download, LP	13	27	—	–	–	22
Child Ballads (with Jefferson Hamer)	Released: February 11, 2013 Label: Wilderland, Thirty Tigers Formats: CD, digital download, LP	20	38	—	—	–	19
Xoa	Released: September 30, 2014 Label: Wilderland, Thirty Tigers Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—	—	–	–
Anaïs Mitchell	Released: January 28, 2022 Label: BMG Rights Management Formats: CD, digital download, LP	—	—	37	3	30	10

EPs

List of albums, with selected information

Title	Album details
Country E.P. (with Rachel Ries)	Released: September 2, 2008 Label: Righteous Babe Formats: Vinyl, CD, digital download

Cast albums

List of albums, with selected information

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US Indie	US Cast	UK DL	UK Indie
Why We Build The Wall (EP – Selections from Hadestown. The Myth. The Musical. Live Original Cast Recording)	Released: October 13, 2016 Label: Parlophone Formats: digital download	—	—	—	—	—
Hadestown: The Myth. The Musical. (Live Original Cast Recording)	Released: October 6, 2017 Label: Parlophone, Warner Classics Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	3	—	—
Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Released: July 26, 2019 Label: Sing It Again Formats: CD, LP, digital download	49	4	1	21	25

Singles

As lead artist

Title	Year	Album
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"	2016	Acoustic Christmas (An Amazon Music Original)
"Woyaya" (with Kate Stables)	2018	Love Me Not (Amazon Original)
"By Degrees" (with Mark Erelli, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Lori McKenna, Josh Ritter)		rowspan="2" Шаблон:N/a
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (with Thomas Bartlett)	2019
"Minnesota" (with Mick Flannery)	2020	Mickmas EP, Vol. 3
"Grace Cathedral Hill"	2021	Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars)
"Bright Star"		Anaïs Mitchell
"Brooklyn Bridge"
"On Your Way (Felix Song)"	2022

As featured artist

List of albums, with selected information

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		US AAA
"Phoenix" Шаблон:Small	2021	33	How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

Other appearances

Title	Year	Other artist(s)	Album
"Mockingbird"	2008	Шаблон:N/a	Songs For Laura Volume One
"Quarter to Ten"		Gregory Douglass	Turning Back Beautiful
"L'Internazionale"	2009	Шаблон:N/a	Thrufters & Through-Stones: The Music of Vermont's First 400 Years
"All My Trials"		Шаблон:N/a	Beautiful Star – The Songs of Odetta
"Alight"	2013	Round Mountain	The Goat
"Even Then"		The Bengsons	Hundred Days
"Wedding Song (Live)"		Шаблон:N/a	Live at Caffe Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse
"Anchors"		Kris Gruen	New Comics From the Wooden World
"Clyde Waters"		Jefferson Hamer	The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions 2013

Audiobooks

• Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown (October 6, 2020; Penguin Audio)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2003	Kerrville Folk Festival	New Folk Award		Шаблон:Won
2010	Grammy Award	Best Recording Package	Hadestown	Шаблон:Nominated
2014	BBC Radio 2 Folk Award	Best Traditional Track	"Willie of Winsbury" (shared with Jefferson Hamer)	Шаблон:Won
2019	Tony Award	Best Original Score	Hadestown	Шаблон:Won
		Best Book of a Musical		Шаблон:Nom
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway)		Шаблон:Win
		Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)		Шаблон:Nom
	Americana Music Honors & Awards	Song of the Year	"By Degrees" (with Mark Erelli, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Lori McKenna and Josh Ritter)	Шаблон:Nom
2020	Grammy Award	Best Musical Theater Album	Hadestown	Шаблон:Won
2021		Best Folk Album	Bonny Light Horseman	Шаблон:Nom
		Best American Roots Performance	"Deep in Love"	Шаблон:Nom
	Libera Awards	Libera Award for Best Americana Record	Bonny Light Horseman	Шаблон:Won
		Best Breakthrough Artist	Bonny Light Horseman	Шаблон:Nom
2023	Grammy Award	Best American Roots Song	"Bright Star"	Шаблон:Nom

External links

• Official website
• Guardian Feature
• Vogue Interview
• NPR All Songs Considered
• The Independent Interview
• Boston Globe Feature