Live at the WISE Presents
Bird City with guests
Sunday October 21
8-11PM
$10 Suggested Donation at the Door


As a beloved fixture of the music community in and around Guelph, Ontario, Mitchell has been a member of the Barmitzvah Brothers, the Burning Hell, Richard Laviolette and the Oil Spills, as well as performing under her solo alter ego Jenny Omnichord. Bird City is in many ways an evolution of the last concept, with Mitchell trading her Omnichord for the banjo and tenor guitar. Focusing on these instruments finally allowed Mitchell’s songwriting talents to fully blossom, and the exposed and poetic songs of paranoia, heartbreak and self-examination on Winnowing, the debut Bird City album, encapsulate the last 15 years of Mitchell’s life.

Jenny Mitchell remains one of Canada’s great unsung musical treasures, and now as Bird City, the full range of her talent is on display. Although she likes to describe her work as “tiny songs,” Winnowing is a towering achievement for an artist just beginning to get the recognition she deserves.

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