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Anais Mitchell Benefit Concert Anais Mitchell, Vermont’s sparrow-voiced chanteuse, world-traveler and compulsive diarist, one of the most distinctive songwriters of her generation and a sensation at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival in 2007, will make a solo appearance on Friday, December 5, 8:00 PM at Bethany Church in Montpelier to benefit the Summit School of Traditional Music and Dance. Admission is $15 at the door. Raised on a sheep farm, Anais, now 28, has been writing songs since she was 17. She released her first album, The Song They Sang When Rome Fell in 2002, and won the New Folk award at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas the following year. Her second album, Hymns for the Exiled (2004) drew the attention of Ani DeFranco, who signed Anais to her label, Righteous Babe Records. RBR released Anais’s third album, Brightness in 2007 and Country E.P., with Rachel Reis, in 2008. Not to be confined by genre, Anais is also the composer and librettist of Hadestown, a folk opera, based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, which had its debut in Montpelier this year. She will preview Music of Hadestown at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan on December 10. Her journals can be read on her website, www.anaismitchell.com. Benefit Concert • Date: Friday, December 5, 2008 • Location: Bethany Church, Montpelier • Time: 8 pm • Admission: $15 at the door |
Katie Trautz, Director - Phone: 802-917-1186 E-mail: music@summit-school.org
Address: P.O. Box 646, Montpelier, VT 05601
Address: P.O. Box 646, Montpelier, VT 05601