From Broadway to a Vermont Farm: Anaïs Mitchell Returns Home for Solo Record

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Anaïs Mitchell talks with KEXP's Emily Fox about leaving New York City early in the pandemic to give birth at her parents’ farm in Vermont, and staying there to write an album that’s filled with childhood nostalgia.


 
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Anaïs Mitchell has won a Grammy and eight Tony awards for her musical, Hadestown. She’s also in the band Bonny Light Horseman and has been featured as part of Big Red Machine, the musical project of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner of the National. She’s now out with her first new solo album in a decade.

Mitchell talks with Sound & Vision’s Emily Fox about leaving New York City early in the pandemic to give birth at her parents’ farm in Vermont, and staying there to write an album that’s filled with childhood nostalgia.  

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