A Nation of Shopkeepers, LeedsThe Bible says four horsemen will herald the apocalypse, but the job seems to have fallen to an English professor's daughter from Vermont with a Suzy Quatro feathercut and a cutesy dress. Anais Mitchell is touring a stripped-down version of her hugely acclaimed "folk opera", Hadestown, which retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice during the Great Depression in America, where hell is an isolated, paranoid and suspicious community. Yet she could be addressing the we...
Guardian Music — A Nation of Shopkeepers, LeedsThe Bible says four horsemen will herald the apocalypse, but the job seems to have fallen to an English professor's daughter from Vermont wi... more info