Hadestown Revisited

On the program for June 27, 2015, we celebrated Anaïs Mitchell’s relaunch of her folk opera Hadestown and shared some music that seemed to resonate with it.

First hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Ygdrassil All by a River Easy Sunrise (Rounder Europe)
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Rusalka Tomorrow Will Follow Today (I Scream Music)
Josephine Foster The Siren’s Admonition Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (Locust Music)
New Set
Mary McLaughlin Thugamar Féin an Samradh Linn Sacred Days, Mythic Ways (Rowan)
Jessica Radcliffe, Lisa Ekström, and Martin Simpson Uti Var Hage The Long Dance of Summer (s/p)
Steve Baughman and Robin Bullock Breton Suite Alone and Together (Dancing Wolf)
Music Under Announcements
Steve Baughman Hanter Dro, The Hilary Two Step The Almost Whiskey Waltz (s/p)
Anaïs Mitchell with Greg Brown Song Bird Intro; Hey, Little Songbird; Gone, I’m Gone Hadestown (Righteous Babe)
Briget Boyle Silence [the parts interior] (s/p)
Marissa Nadler Fifty-Five Falls Ballads of Living and Dying (Eclipse)
New Set
Robin Laing The Lotus Eaters Ebb and Flow (Whistleberry Music)
Olivia Chaney The Longest River The Longest River (Nonesuch)

Second hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Pamela Wyn Shannon Netherworld Courting Autumn (Girlhenge)
Nick Castro & The Poison Tree To This Earth Further from Grace (Strange Attractors)
In Gowan Ring Boat of the Moon Webs among the Din, Volume 3 (s/p)
Josephine Foster Celebrant’s Song Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (Locust Music)
New Set
Mary Hampton Eros Book One (s/p)
Anaïs Mitchell with Greg Brown and Justin Vernon His Kiss, the Riot; Doubt Comes In Hadestown (Righteous Babe)
New Set
Emily Smith King Orfeo Echoes (White Fall)
Linde Nijland What Is True Sings Sandy Denny (Real Harm)
The Levins Dream Unspoken Trust (s/p)
Nick Castro & The Young Elders Picolina Nick Castro & The Young Elders (Strange Attractors)
In Gowan Ring Persephone Sleeps Webs among the Din, Volume 3 (s/p)
New Set
Birch Book Nothing More Volume III: A Hand Full of Days (Little Somebody)
Six Organs of Admittance (faded) When You Finally Return For Octavio Paz (Holy Mountain)