Anaïs Mitchell: 'I think of Cork as a sort of cultural Mecca' 

As the American singer gets ready to play the Safe Harbour festival with Bonny Light Horseman, she talks about her love of Leeside, how Paul Brady changed her life, and why Taylor Swift rules
Anaïs Mitchell: 'I think of Cork as a sort of cultural Mecca' 

Anais Mitchell in Cork for Sounds From A Safe Harbour. 

Folk singer Anaïs Mitchell brings her Bonny Light Horseman project to Cork’s Songs From A Safe Harbour festival on Friday, September 8. 

A collaboration with Fruit Bats frontman Eric Johnson, and National collaborator Josh Kaufman, the group’s speciality in old-timey balladry, often of Celtic origin. 

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