A gig held at The Jam Jar on Friday 1st March. The event starts at 19:30.
Eartrumpet Music Presents: Anna Mieke + Soufian Saihi . Standing Show (with some unreserved seats) at The Jam Jar, Little Ann BS2 9EB - 18 +
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:00pm
Originally from Wicklow, Ireland, Anna Mieke is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose lyricism and enveloping compositions toe the line between folk forms and vivid dreamscapes, drawing on traditional and contemporary motifs. Her music is the surreal soundtrack of a vast personal plain steeped in nostalgia, family, memory, death and dreaming—where gritty reality and romanticism meet. This duality is the thematic core of her second album Theatre, which focuses on the conflict between permanence and temporality, the immaterial and material, and how memories of places and people warp and reinvent themselves over time.
Anna Mieke’s musical landscape developed from years of collaborations, performance and experimenting, during her time living in both Cork and Dublin. The release of Anna’s debut album, Idle Mind, in 2019, garnered Anna Mieke a nomination in the 'Best Emerging Act’ category at the RTÉ Folk Awards. Early 2022 saw her headline tours across Spain, UK, Ireland and further afield, with a week-long residency in New York (May 2022), collaborating with NYC-based musicians and composers.
Along with her band, she undertook two headline tours in North America in 2023, as well as support tours with Florist and Iron and Wine across Europe and the US. In recent years, she has also toured with and supported acts including Wilco, Anais Mitchell, Lankum and Bonny Light Horseman. She has performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and collaborated with Crash Ensemble, Linda Buckley and Adrian Crowley. Outside of her solo material, Anna Mieke played cello with HEX, a Cork-based improvisatory group, and developed her vocals as one-third of the singing group, Rufous Nightjar; both of which allowed her to further explore sound manipulation, improvisation and complex harmonic arrangements.
Her sophomore album Theatre was recorded + co-produced with Nick Rayner, and performed with long-standing bandmates Ryan Hargadon (Kojaque, Rachael Lavelle) and Matthew Jacobson (UMBRA). It was released in 2022 and received praise from The Guardian, Brooklyn Vegan and MOJO among others. Uncut praised the album as “beguiling and really rather wonderful” while the Revue described the songs as having “a combination of Agnes Obel’s symphonic experimentation and Aldous Harding’s lyrical creativity…an artist who brilliantly incorporates fantasy, and mysticism into music”. Theatre was nominated for Album of the Year (2022) in Ireland’s ‘Choice Awards’.
“Anna Mieke mines a rich seam of nostalgia and loss – and her extensive travels – on a dreamlike second album” - The Guardian, ★★★★
“Beguiling and really rather wonderful” - Uncut, 8/10
+ Support Soufian Saihi
Entry requirements: 18+
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:00pm
Originally from Wicklow, Ireland, Anna Mieke is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose lyricism and enveloping compositions toe the line between folk forms and vivid dreamscapes, drawing on traditional and contemporary motifs. Her music is the surreal soundtrack of a vast personal plain steeped in nostalgia, family, memory, death and dreaming—where gritty reality and romanticism meet. This duality is the thematic core of her second album Theatre, which focuses on the conflict between permanence and temporality, the immaterial and material, and how memories of places and people warp and reinvent themselves over time.
Anna Mieke’s musical landscape developed from years of collaborations, performance and experimenting, during her time living in both Cork and Dublin. The release of Anna’s debut album, Idle Mind, in 2019, garnered Anna Mieke a nomination in the 'Best Emerging Act’ category at the RTÉ Folk Awards. Early 2022 saw her headline tours across Spain, UK, Ireland and further afield, with a week-long residency in New York (May 2022), collaborating with NYC-based musicians and composers.
Along with her band, she undertook two headline tours in North America in 2023, as well as support tours with Florist and Iron and Wine across Europe and the US. In recent years, she has also toured with and supported acts including Wilco, Anais Mitchell, Lankum and Bonny Light Horseman. She has performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and collaborated with Crash Ensemble, Linda Buckley and Adrian Crowley. Outside of her solo material, Anna Mieke played cello with HEX, a Cork-based improvisatory group, and developed her vocals as one-third of the singing group, Rufous Nightjar; both of which allowed her to further explore sound manipulation, improvisation and complex harmonic arrangements.
Her sophomore album Theatre was recorded + co-produced with Nick Rayner, and performed with long-standing bandmates Ryan Hargadon (Kojaque, Rachael Lavelle) and Matthew Jacobson (UMBRA). It was released in 2022 and received praise from The Guardian, Brooklyn Vegan and MOJO among others. Uncut praised the album as “beguiling and really rather wonderful” while the Revue described the songs as having “a combination of Agnes Obel’s symphonic experimentation and Aldous Harding’s lyrical creativity…an artist who brilliantly incorporates fantasy, and mysticism into music”. Theatre was nominated for Album of the Year (2022) in Ireland’s ‘Choice Awards’.
“Anna Mieke mines a rich seam of nostalgia and loss – and her extensive travels – on a dreamlike second album” - The Guardian, ★★★★
“Beguiling and really rather wonderful” - Uncut, 8/10
+ Support Soufian Saihi
Entry requirements: 18+
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