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Anais Mitchell

From her birthplace on a Vermont sheep farm to Beirut cafs, Cairo apartments and Austin recording studios, Anas Mitchell has been around. In her unique, poetic songs listeners hear the Virginia countryside, bathe in New Mexico moonlight and listen to the world whizzing by from inside a hobo's train car.
This remarkable young artist with an innocent girlish voice, who set out to do no more than indulge her love of language and truth, was catapulted into the national folk spotlight after capturing the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Award and getting signed to Righteous Babe Records, the indie label run by Anais's musical hero Ani DiFranco. Anais's Righteous Babe debut The Brightness is a decidedly intimate listening experience. Spilling over with worldly metaphors, intense emotions and unshakeable reverence to the art of song, it shimmers with creative spark. In the words of reviewer Margaret Reges, "She has the earthiness of Shawn Colvin, the child-like bite of Joanna Newsom, and the urban jumpiness of Ani DiFranco."