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 Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, & 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 albums, Living With Ghosts and Flaming Red are considered seminal albums in the singer-songwriter genre, while Children Running Though won Best Album and led to her being named Best Artist at the 2007 Americana Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, Music Awards. She won a Grammy award for Downtown Church, her 2010 gospel album. Her songs have been covered by a myriad of artists including Emmylou Harris, 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, Servant of Love, 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 Nickel Creek, has since established an extraordinary solo career including highly acclaimed studio albums and collaborations with artists such as John Mayer and The Decemberists. She has toured extensively as headliner, as well as performing and touring with such artists as Fiona Apple and Jackson Browne. Watkins is a frequent guest on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, and remains the only person invited to guest host on the program, which she did in 2010. She and her brother Sean Watkins also produce the Watkins Family Hour, a monthly residency and podcast at the Los Angeles venue Largo, featuring an eclectic group of guest musicians, comedy and more. ANAЇS MITCHELL Widely known as “the Queen of Modern Folk Music,” 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 Bob Dylan, 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 Punch Brothers, 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.” Sponsored by University of Connecticut Women's Center .