Anaïs Mitchell is sitting cross-legged on the rolling lawn of her parents’ rural home in Vergennes, where she has spent the morning harvesting dandelions to make wine. Hip, multicolored Wayfarer ...

ARE 19TH CENTURY BALLADS "aulde newes"? Apparently not, considering how critics from the BBC to NPR are raving about Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer's forthcoming EP, Child Ballads, a revival of ...

On their debut collaboration, Child Ballads, Vermont’s Anaïs Mitchell and NYC-based songwriter Jefferson Hamer mine the five-volume treasure trove of old-world folk music that is The English and ...

%27Child Ballads%27 features seven songs from the collections of folklorist Francis James Child Such acts as Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy shaped the two musicians%27 love of British folk ...

Hamer has creative ambition of his own: His work frequently stretches out to incorporate ancient Irish music and the traditional sounds of Appalachia. So he's a nice fit for Child Ballads, in which he ...

“Child Ballads,” the simply-titled album from Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer, is a mere seven tracks long, but there are plenty of other things to count: six riddles, three wicked mothers, two ...

Mitchell has teamed up with Hamer, another young singer, to explore folk's ancient ancestry. Watch the duo perform the legendary "Tam Lin" at the... Anaïs Mitchell has a knack for mythology that flies ...

Since arriving from his native Dublin over 20 years ago, Eamon O’Leary has quietly but assuredly immersed himself in the middle of the Irish trad scene in the Big Apple. Like his fellow Dubs Susan ...

Jefferson Hamer: We took a light touch with this one. Both the melody and most of the words from the well-known versions remain intact. We imbued Willie with some socialist rhetoric, "I won't be the ...

There's ambition rooted in the pursuit of personal glory, and then there's creative ambition, rooted in a desire to do what hasn't already been done. Anais Mitchell is a folksinger with a kind, ...

Anaïs Mitchell has a knack for mythology that flies over the heads of most modern songwriters. From her adaptation of the Orpheus myth on Hadestown — an arresting "folk opera" wherein Orpheus and ...