Anna-Mieke Bishop,[1] known as Anna Mieke, is a singer, songwriter and musician currently based in County Wicklow, Ireland.[2][3][4]
Anna Mieke | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anna-Mieke Bishop |
| Born | Wicklow, Ireland |
| Origin | County Wicklow |
| Genres | folk |
| Instrument(s) | guitar, piano, Greek bouzouki, cello |
| Years active | 2019–present |
| Website | annamieke |
Early life
editAnna Mieke was born in Wicklow and has lived in New Zealand and Spain.[5] She studied biochemistry at University College Cork.[6][7]
Career
editAnna Mieke was one of five RTÉ Folk Award Nominees for ‘Best Emerging Act’ 2019, and was a recipient of the Arts Council’s Next Generation Bursary Award 2020.[8] In 2020, her song "Warped Window" appeared on the show Normal People.[9] Her second album Theatre (2022) was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize.[7]
In 2022, she carried out a week-long residency at the IAC, New York (2022), collaborating with NYC-based musicians and composers, Grey McMurray, Charlotte Greve and Anna Roberts Gevalt.[10] In February 2023 she toured North America for the first time with her band, followed by support tours with Florist and Iron and Wine across Europe and the US. She has also toured throughout Europe and the UK.[11] In recent years, she has also toured with and supported acts including Wilco, Anais Mitchell and Bonny Light Horseman. In 2022 she collaborated with Crash Ensemble as part of their Reactions series, composing a piece, 'Groundwork', for cello, double bass and synths.[12] She has also collaborated with composer Linda Buckley and toured with Adrian Crowley. While living in Cork between 2017-2019, Anna Mieke played cello with HEX, a Cork-based improvisatory group, and, in 2021, toured and recorded an album with singing trio, Rufous Nightjar.[13]
Theatre, Anna Mieke's second album, was recorded + co-produced with Nick Rayner and features long-standing bandmates Ryan Hargadon (Kojaque, Rachael Lavelle) and Matthew Jacobson (UMBRA), as well as contributions from Rozi Leyden (Rozi Plain), Brían Mac Gloinn (Ye Vagabonds), Lina Andonovska, Alannah Thornburgh and Cora Venus Lunny. It was released in November 2022. The Guardian awarded it 4 stars, saying Anna Mieke "mines a rich seam of nostalgia and loss – and her extensive travels – on a dreamlike second album".,[14] and featured in Brooklyn Vegan[15] and MOJO magazine [16] among others. Uncut praised the album as “beguiling and really rather wonderful” [17] 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”.[18]
Discography
editStudio albums
- Idle Mind (2019)
- Theatre (2022)[19]
References
edit- ^ Sharkey, Luke (13 March 2018). "New Anna Mieke single 'Arbour' is flush with the sounds of spring". Nialler9.
- ^ Bishop, Anna-Mieke (7 March 2018). "Excitement is afoot. My birthday's next Tuesday". Twitter.
- ^ "Sound: Anna Mieke". Totally Dublin. 23 April 2019.
- ^ "ETHEREAL INDIE-FOLK ARTIST ANNA MIEKE SHARES NEW ALBUM THEATRE; OUT NOW VIA NETTWERK". Nettwerk Music Group. 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Anna Mieke – Irish Arts Center". irishartscenter.org.
- ^ "'They're siblings – all growing from the same root': An Interview with Folk Singer Anna Mieke". The Journal of Music – Irish Music, News, Reviews, Opinion, Concerts, Festivals and Opportunities.
- ^ a b "RTÉ's Choice Music Prize nominee Anna Mieke : 'I've been able to make the music I want to make'". Independent.ie. 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Anna Mieke".
- ^ "Normal People: Streaming boost in Ireland for songs featured on hit TV series". www.officialcharts.com.
- ^ "The "Warped Window" singer and RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award nominee comes to IAC".
- ^ "Find information on all of Anna Mieke's upcoming concerts, tour dates and ticket information". 21 June 2024.
- ^ "Amidst the onset of the global pandemic, Crash Ensemble commissioned Irish and international composers from a range of musical backgrounds to write new works for duos within the group".
- ^ "Website bio".
- ^ Harris, Sophie (27 November 2022). "Anna Mieke: Theatre review – the Irish singer-songwriter's spellbinding follow-up". The Observer.
- ^ "Anna Mieke preps sophomore LP with single "Mannequin"".
- ^ "MOJO 350 – January 2023: Blondie / The Best Of 2022". 12 April 2022.
- ^ "NEW ALBUMS, ANNA MIEKE, Theatre, 8/10".
- ^ "THE MATINEE '22 V. 106 – LIZZIE REID, MADELINE FINN, ALVVAYS, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, THE MURLOCS, GAWJUSS, ANNA MIEKE, SLANEY BAY, BELLS LARSEN". 15 August 2022.
- ^ "About / Bio". ANNA MIEKE.
External links
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