The highly anticipated album featuring the Original West End Company, HADESTOWN – LIVE FROM LONDON, will be released globally on Friday 6 December.
HADESTOWN – LIVE FROM LONDON was recorded during a live performance at the Lyric Theatre and features songs from the production including Road To Hell, Way Down Hadestown, All I’ve Ever Known and Wait For Me. The album features the Original West End Company including Dónal Finn (Orpheus), Grace Hodgett Young (Eurydice), Zachary James (Hades), Melanie La Barrie (Hermes), Gloria Onitiri (Persephone), Bella Brown, Madeline Charlemagne and Allie Daniel (Fates), Lauren Azania, Tiago Dhondt Bamberger, Beth Hinton-Lever, Waylon Jacobs and Christopher Short (Workers), with Lucinda Buckley, Winny Herbert, Ryesha Higgs, Ediz Mahmut, Miriam Nyarko, Brianna Ogunbawo and Simon Oskarsson as Swings.
Blending American songwriting traditions, from indie folk, to pop, blues, and New Orleans-inspired jazz, Hadestown has music, lyrics, and book by acclaimed Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs Mitchell who originated Hadestown as an indie theatre project and acclaimed album, before transforming the show into a genre-defying new musical alongside artistic collaborator and Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin.
The album will be available on all streaming platforms from 6 December and is now available to pre-order on CD and standard vinyl, as well as a deluxe hand-numbered limited-edition vinyl of 3000 copies, featuring a unique pop-up scene in the gatefold.
The vinyl versions of album contain 10 tracks, with the streaming and CD version containing 15 tracks.
Available to pre-order exclusively from the official online store, the deluxe vinyl is hand numbered, limited to 3000 copies and features a unique pop-up scene in the gatefold.
The album will also be available on digital download and all streaming services.
Watch the brand-new music video featuring the Original West End Orpheus (Dónal Finn) and Eurydice (Grace Hodgett Young). ‘All I’ve Ever Known’ is available now on all streaming platforms.
Anaïs is a multi award-winning singer-songwriter and member of American folk band Bonny Light Horseman. Dubbed by NPR as ‘one of the greatest songwriters of her generation’, Mitchell comes from the world of narrative folksong, poetry and balladry. Among her recorded works include the original 2010 studio album of Hadestown, featuring Justin Vernon and Ani Difranco, Child Ballads (2013, with Jefferson Hamer) and Young Man in America (2012).
She has headlined venues and performed alongside artists including Bon Iver, Josh Ritter and Punch Brothers. Her awards include the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award and Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award.
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