Folk

Karine Polwart and Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads

Two of today's most incisive, articulate and exquisitely expressive singer-songwriters

From 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.

Age restriction: Under 14s should be accompanied by an adult.