Sheffield | Event guide
Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
Past event listing | 6 March 2013
Type
Event note
City
Sheffield
Venue reference
The Library Theatre
Event background
A Sheffield date from the Child Ballads collaboration, pairing Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer's folk storytelling with an intimate theatre setting.
Current status
This is a past event note. It is provided for background only and does not show current availability.
Context
Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer collaborated on Child Ballads, a project built around traditional ballads reworked with contemporary folk arrangements.
The Sheffield stop at The Library Theatre would have placed the songs in a compact room where vocal detail and narrative phrasing could carry the evening.
This note is useful for understanding the type of touring folk event that sat between concert performance, literary storytelling, and traditional song.