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Child Ballads featured on NPR Weekend Edition

Child Ballads by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer was recently featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition [...]

Anais and Jefferson on BBC2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliff

Here’s a link to Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer live on BB2 The Folk Show with host Mark Radcliff. Date: 2/27/2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015q45y

About.com ‘Child Ballads’ Interview

On ‘Child Ballads’, folk music, and his collaboration with Anais Mitchell

By Kim Ruehl, About.com Guide

 

Jefferson Hamer – Interview about Child Ballads.

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Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads | Album Reviews | Pitchfork

“Through Mitchell and Hamer, these characters, made flat by design and even more by time, spring into full dimension, ache and grieve and flirt, live and die and get born again.”

Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads | Album Reviews | Pitchfork.

02/21/13 – Toronto – 2013 Folk Alliance Conference – Child Ballads – Folk Alliance Official Showcase

Who: Child Ballads – Folk Alliance Official Showcase When Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:00pm – All Ages Where 2013 Folk Alliance Conference (map) Toronto, Canada Other Infohttp://www.jeffersonhamer.com/2013/01/22/folk-alliance-schedule-thursday-and-friday-feb-21-22/

Anais and Jefferson perform on BBC World Service

Anais and Jefferson performing Willie’s Lady on BBC World Service The Strand, recorded 2/4/2013

02/02/13 – Glasgow – City Halls – Celtic Connections: Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads

Who: Celtic Connections: Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads When Saturday, February 2, 2013 7:30pm – Show with Karine Polwart ! – All Ages Where City Halls (map) Lanarkshire G1 1NQ Glasgow, United Kingdom Other InfoFrom the Financial Times to the Sun, reviews of Karine Polwart’s fifth album Traces (2012) unanimously declared her one of today’s most incisive, articulate and exquisitely expressive singer-songwriters. Addressing subjects from Donald Trump to an elderly neighbour’s life-story, Traces “plays like a book of short stories set to music, full of stunning nuances and depths” (BBC).

After rapturous acclaim for her remarkable folk-opera project Hadestown, and 2012’s stunning state-of-the-nation album Young Man in America, US singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell returns to Celtic Connections performing material from her latest, long-cherished project, a reinterpretation of classic Child Ballads with Brooklyn-based collaborator Jefferson Hamer.

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer “Child Ballads” out early 2013

We’re excited to officially announce the forthcoming release of Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer’s new album, Child Ballads. [...]

07/31/12 – Colwyn Bay – Theatr Colwyn – Jefferson Hamer – Opening for Anais Mitchell

Who: Jefferson Hamer – Opening for Anais Mitchell When Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:00pm – All Ages Where Theatr Colwyn (map) Colwyn Bay, UK

Brooklyn Ballad Theatre complete video series

Thanks to Jeff Chu and The Plant Productions (www.theplantproductions.com), the Brooklyn Ballad Theatre debut from December 2, 2011 at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theatre is now on-line in a six part series. Here are the videos in order:

 

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