2015 / 2016 SEASON

PRESENTING THE BEST OF MUSIC, DANCE, COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

FUN EVENTS FOR KIDS AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY.

JORGENSEN Center for the Performing Arts jorgensen.uconn.edu | 860-486-4226 Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 8:00 pm University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Anne D'Alleva, Dean Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Rodney Rock, Director

presents , , & Anaïs Mitchell Together On Stage

Patty Griffin Sara Watkins Anaïs Mitchell photo credit David McLister photo credit Aaron Redfield photo credit Jay Sansone The Use Your Voice Tour 2016 Presented in Partnership with The League of Women Voters

Columbia Artists Management 1790 Broadway New York, NY 10019 (212) 841-9509 www.cami.com PATTY GRIFFIN

Patty Griffin is a Grammy-Award winning artist who has achieved great acclaim for her songwriting as well as her powerful voice. Her first two , and are considered seminal albums in the singer-songwriter genre, while Children Running Though won Best and led to her being named Best Artist at the 2007 Americana Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, Music Awards. She won a Grammy award for , her 2010 gospel album. Her songs have been covered by a myriad of artists including , The Dixie Chicks, Joan Baez and Bette & Anaïs Mitchell Midler. She was born in Old Town, Maine, and resides in Austin, Texas. Her Grammy nominated tenth album, , was released in Together On Stage September of 2015.

SARA WATKINS

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Sara Watkins, first praised for her work as a founding member of Grammy Award-winning , has since established an extraordinary solo career including highly acclaimed studio albums and collaborations with artists such as and . She has toured extensively as headliner, as well as performing and touring with such artists as and .

Watkins is a frequent guest on NPR’s , and remains the only person invited to guest host on the program, which she did in 2010. She and her brother also produce the , a monthly residency and podcast at the Los Angeles venue , featuring an eclectic group of guest musicians, comedy and more.

ANAЇS MITCHELL

Widely known as “the Queen of Modern ,” Anaïs Mitchell is first and foremost a storyteller. A Vermont-based singer-songwriter, Mitchell’s musical style, sound, and performance have led her to be compared to , Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch. Mitchell was first signed by Ani Difranco to Righteous Babe Records, where she recorded for several years before starting her own Wilderland label in 2012.

Among Mitchell’s recorded works are five full-length albums, including 2010′s sensationally reviewed Hadestown and 2012′s Young Man in America, which was described by critics as "genre-defining" and her "second consecutive masterpiece,” and for which she received a BBC Radio Two Folk Award nomination for “Best Original Song.” In addition to headlining worldwide, Mitchell has supported tours for Ani Difranco, The Low Anthem, Richard Thompson, Josh Ritter and , as well as two sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall with the band Bon Iver.

Her 2013 release, Child Ballads, won a 2014 BBC Radio Two Folk Award for Best Traditional Song, as well as finding itself on many ‘best of’ lists in international publications. In fall 2014, Mitchell releases xoa; a fifteen track solo collection including re-recorded songs spanning her ten year career, as well as a few completely new and previously unrecorded songs.

If there’s a common thread in Mitchell’s work– from her earliest acoustic records, to the Hadestown opera, to this new chapter– it’s that she’s as interested in the world around her as the one inside her. She has a way of tackling big themes with the same emotional intimacy most artists use to describe their inner lives. “That’s why,” as one journalist put it, “even in her most intimate moments, she never sounds like a confessional songwriter.”

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