Presented by Strung Out Touring
Jenny Mitchell - The Forest House Tour
After opening for Kasey Chambers around Australia, award-winning songwriter Jenny Mitchell returns home for a national tour celebrating her acclaimed album Forest House.
An Aotearoa Music Award Winner and 2 x Australian Golden Guitar nominee, Jenny is a gifted storyteller from the deep south of New Zealand. Now based in Melbourne, the AU Review describes Jenny’s music as a “sublime slice of folk” and her new highly anticipated album, Forest House, is capturing fans across the motu and the globe.
“Forest House - 10/10,” Newstalk ZB
Every so often, an artist emerges who has everything it takes to reach the pinnacle of country music success. Jenny Mitchell is a star.” Country Music Capital News
Jenny is thrilled to welcome very special guest Katie Thompson to The Forest House Tour. Hailing from New Zealand’s West Coast, Katie is a captivating alt-country artist known for her soul-stirring storytelling and rich, emotive voice. A 2024 finalist for Best Country Song, Katie has shared stages with legends like Sir Elton John and Don McLean, leaving lasting impressions with her raw honesty and polished edge.
AUCKLAND
? The Tuning Fork
? Friday 22 August
⏰ Doors open at 7pm
? Support from Katie Thompson
NZ TOUR DETAILS
SAT 17 AUGUST - Errick's Venue, Dunedin
SUN 18 AUGUST - Old St Paul's, Wellington
THURS 21 AUGUST - The Piano, Christchurch
FRI 22 AUGUST - The Tuning Fork, Auckland
For more information please visit www.jennymitchell.co.nz.
ABOUT JENNY MITCHELL
NZ Best Country Artist Winner and 2 x Golden Guitar nominee, Jenny Mitchell, is a storyteller from the deep south of New Zealand with impactful songs full of grace and grit. Her last album ‘Tug of War’ included the pivotal release of the 2022 APRA NZ Best Country Song ‘Trouble Finds a Girl’ and was described by Rolling Stone as an album, “worthy of every award it will inevitably collect.”
No stranger to the road, Jenny was recently awarded a scholarship to perform at Nashville’s iconic AmericanaFest and has toured Australia and New Zealand extensively over the last decade - supporting artists including Fanny Lumsden (AU), Tami Neilson (NZ) and Nadia Reid (NZ) along the way. Her most recent touring project, The Bush & the Birds Tour, travelled throughout NZ in support of conservation organisation; Forest & Bird. An ode to her late Grandfather’s love of the land, the tour generated over $2000 in donations for Forest & Bird.
Jenny grew up in a home and family of music and often tours with her sisters, The Mitchell Twins, and country music loving Dad, Ron Mitchell. After growing up with a musical diet of The Chicks, Hank Williams and Dolly Parton, Jenny penned her first songs at the age of 11 after a trip to Ireland where she connected with her Irish heritage and explored the immigration story of her Irish born Grandparents. A few years down the track, Jenny performed original work on the TV show New Zealand's Got Talent, was placed 3rd and went onto crowdfund and release her first album at the age of 15. In 2017, she was crowned the overall winner of the NZ Gold Guitar Awards which kickstarted the professional chapter of her career, leading to her Aotearoa Music Award Winning album 'Wildfires’ produced by Tasmania’s Matt Fell.
With a sound that No Depression describes as, “poetry that dominates a beautiful melody,” Jenny Mitchell is comfortable with a country twang or softly spoken ballad and is rapidly capturing fans across the globe.
