🏆 Winner: ‘Best Act‘ – The Irish Times
🏅 Nominee: ‘Album Of The Year’ – Choice Music Prize
The Observer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sunday Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐
MOJO ⭐⭐⭐⭐ UNCUT 8/10
Anna Mieke’s songwriting and enveloping compositions have asserted her as a vital voice amongst
Ireland’s almost-folk genre…
The Irish multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Wicklow, Ireland, toes the line between folk forms and vivid dreamscapes, drawing on traditional and contemporary motifs.
The lyrically ornate and instrumental delicacy of her work, alongside flowing atmospheric arrangements, contributes a challenging, emphatic and new voice to alt-folk. The release of the Wicklow-based artist’s critically acclaimed debut album, Idle Mind from 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. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, outside of her solo material, Anna Mieke played cello with HEX, a Cork-based experimental outfit, and has developed her vocals as one-third of the singing group, Rufous Nightjar.
Across her career, she has shared stages with Florist, Iron & Wine, Lankum, Lisa Hannigan, This Is The Kit and Rozi Plain; performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and collaborated with Crash Ensemble and Adrian Crowley. These varying outlets of creative expression are integral to her distinct and timeless sound.
Mieke’s second album, Theatre, which she recorded + co-produced with Nick Rayner and features
contributions from long-standing bandmates Ryan Hargadon (Kojaque) and Matthew Jacobson (UMBRA), as well as Rozi Leyden (Rozi Plain), Brían Mac Gloinn (Ye Vagabonds), Lina Andonovska, Alannah Thornburgh and Cora Venus Lunny, was released in November 2022 and received praise from The Guardian, Brooklyn Vegan, MOJO and Uncut, among others, and was nominated for Album of the Year (2022) in Ireland’s ‘Choice Awards’.