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Elaine Mitchener

Essay

A Cry of Anguish: Eight Songs For A Mad King

May 2023

As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece

On Air

Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music

November 2022

The 17 November edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Elaine Mitchener, Barbara Dane, Tengger, Gina Birch, Marisa Anderson, Liza Aikin & Zavoloka, and more

The Portal

Music By Any Means

December 2021

Films of two Wire events, featuring O YAMA O and Elaine Mitchener, plus a podcast of a third, featuring Vicki Bennett aka People like Us, have been posted online by Somerset House Studios