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Casually sophisticated original folk/jazz with a fiery, swinging string band energy.
Myshkin is known for her rich alto voice, complex melodies, and story-poems subtly asking big questions about work, love, struggle and change, from a fiercely egalitarian perspective. Jenny Q brings her cello, beats, harmonies, and Arab influence to the mix.
Through three decades of composing and recording, touring and collaboration, Myshkin's curiosity has inspired her migrations and kept her music evolving. Combining the eye of a perennial outsider and a facility for incorporating musical traditions, the songs reflect a multi-faceted life. Raw-folk, nomad-swing, torchjazz, punk-poetry, desert-blues, post-rock, no pigeonholes. Stubbornly true to wherever the road leads.
Awarded a Global Talent visa to live and work in the UK in 2022, Myshkin's Ruby Warblers have made their home in the Scottish Highlands.
Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky's Idiot, is good because he's pure. Myshkin, the folk chanteuse with desert dust and swamp murk swirling in her voice, is good because she's impure; Celtic, bluegrass, Latin, klezmer, and punk snake through her story-songs.
—Village Voice
One of the best songwriters around...oh, and she sings like a dream too!
—FRoots
Dark, smoky folk-jazz. Gripping, affecting and disquieting.
—Read Magazine
A remarkable economic concoction of gothic folk, bluesy pop, vaudeville, R&B, swing, rockabilly and rock and roll. ... one of the finest records to come out of New Orleans this year.
—Offbeat
A poet who actually has something to say... dense, dark songs rendered beautifully.
—Dirty Linen
Myshkin’s voice is not to be taken lightly. A gorgeous rich alto infused with natural drama and melancholy, and best applied to her own songs: hushed one act plays that speak volumes.
—New Orleans Times Picayune
Haunting melodies, intricate metaphors and subversive subplots … tales of pirate girls on high seas! Lover’s feuds under apricot trees! Rosebud bullets, ruby warblers and whalebone skirts! An unmistakable, complex underground legend.
—Bitch Magazine
Album of the year! Myshkin is a giant among songwriters. well observed, unflinching, tender, bitterly funny songs.
—City Life
Mexico, Live at KALA, Astoria, Oregon 2023
Immobile Gardener, Live at KALA, Astoria, Oregon 2023
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Selected Venues
Mull Theatre, Scotland 2024
Tenor Guitar Gathering, USA 2012, 2013, 2020, 2022
Joshua Tree Music Fest, USA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Brooklyn Americana Fest, USA 2020
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, USA 2001, 2014
Habrovka Festival, Prague, CZ 2013
WalkAbout Fest, NL 2013
Pickathon, USA 2002
Vancouver Folk Festival 2002
High Sierra, USA 2001
Naked Song Fest, NL 2001
Folkwoods Fest, NL 2000, 2001
Broadstairs Fest, UK 2000, 2001
Port Fairy Folk Fest, Australia 1999
Discography
As sole songwriter:
Choice Blooms — Myshkin's Ruby Warblers — DoubleSalt 2025
Trust and the High Wire — Myshkin Warbler — DoubleSalt 2018
That Diamond Lust — Myshkin's Ruby Warblers — DoubleSalt 2012
Sigh Semaphore — Myshkin's Ruby Warblers — DoubleSalt 2006
Corvidae — Myshkin's Ruby Warblers — DoubleSalt 2004
Rosebud Bullets — Myshkin's Ruby Warblers — DoubleSalt 2002
Why do all the Country Girls Leave? — Myshkin — Binky 2000
Blue Gold — Myshkin — Binky 1998
Dr. Plague & Other Lullabies — Myshkin Impossible — Wreckit 1995
Slate — Myshkin — Wreckit 1993
As collaborator:
Econoline — Mike West & Myshkin — Binky 1996
Everythings in Boxes — Road Dog Divas — 2002
Pony — Road Dog Divas — 2003