Patty Griffin Joins Forces with Sara Watkins and Anais Mitchell in a Celebration of American songwriting at Mayo Performing Arts Center

Grammy Award-winning folk singer Patty Griffin joins forces with Sara Watkins and Anais Mitchell in a celebration of American songwriting at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 8 pm. Tickets are $29 - $69.

The Use Your Voice Tour is a special "singers-in-the-round" style show that features all three artists on stage together, sharing songs for the entire evening. 88.5 WXPN is the media partner for this event.

In a celebrated career spanning over 20 years, Grammy Award-winner Patty Griffin has established one of the strongest and most inimitable voices in contemporary folk music. In addition to standing out in a crowded field as an incredible vocalist, Griffin is also an accomplished songwriter, having written songs for everyone from artists such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jessica Simpson, Martina McBride, Emmylou Harris, Joan Osborne, Kelly Clarkson and Miranda Lambert, as well as most of the material on her own impressive catalogue of recordings.

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.

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. 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.

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