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Article: Singer brings unique voice
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- October 12, 2007
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By Bill Blankenship
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
As a teenager, Anais Mitchell thought she might become a
journalist. But instead of telling stories in print, she conveys
them in song.
Mitchell, whose first name is pronounced ah-NAY-iss, performs
Sunday night in the second installment of Last Minute Folk's "Women
of Folk: The Songstress Series."
As a future folk singer, Mitchell certainly came with a fitting
background. She grew up on a sheep farm outside Bristol, Vt., run by
her parents: her father a novelist, her mother a community
organizer.
The farm was shared by her grandparents and other tenants,
including members of a jazz band, the guitarist of which gave
Mitchell lessons in exchange for ...