For the fifth year in a row, it falls to me to chronicle the closing act in the two-week cultural cavalcade that is the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival. These have, by their very nature, tended to be somewhat bittersweet affairs the demise of the event for another year offset by the promise of next year's delights.
Jenny Mitchell, Maegan Mitchell, Nicola Mitchell, tonight’s show is a family affair, a consequence of the melding of cultures: Gaelic, Maori Whapapa, an adoption of Americana, and is a product of the Aotearoa/New Zealand’s deep south, Gore, Aotearoa’s home of the annual Country Music Festival
Future “King of Country Music” (to use the words of the great Tami) Jenny Mitchell, and her sisters the Mitchell twins, have lit up the Small Hall Sessions all over again, as we all-too-rapidly approach the end of another year.
Last month I wrote an interview with Country artist Jenny Mitchell. Her new album, her third, ‘Tug Of War', was recorded via Zoom and online just over two years ago.
Jenny Mitchell was told earlier this morning she has just won the APRA award for Best Country Music Song for 2022. So, she was in Hank William’s Home on High heaven when she started her maiden show at the boutique West Auckland music venue.
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