Productions
Myshkin has been touring internationally for over three decades. Myshkin's Ruby Warblers was born in New Orleans in 2001, and has persisited in various forms ranging from solo to octet, most often bringing in drums, upright bass, strings and horns.
Starting in 2016 the band began creating multi-media performance pieces based around themes and stories. There are currently three shows on offer, past productions are an indication of future possibilities. Commissions and collaborative projects are welcomed.
Currently on offer:
Ruby Warblers in Concert
Songs for the Wild World
Held on the HIgh Wire
Ruby Warblers
Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers has always been a fluid concept of a band, in keeping with Myshkin’s restless nature, exploring a world of sonic landscapes with many different talented collaborators.
2025 finds the band focusing in, honing and shining their sound as a duo, Myshkin and Jenny Q centering vocal harmonies, interlocking guitar and cello patterns, a complex chemistry and fresh approaches to compositions old and new.
Songs for the Wild World
A concert built around the band's greenest imaginings. Bird songs, forest songs, water songs, furies, dreams and future histories. Songs riding rivulets of poetry, reflection and reportage from the lush, unruly edges. A confluence of connection and infinite possibility for our family reunion with the wild world.
Built in 2025 for a site specific show at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, a Trees for Life project in the Scottish Highlands, Songs for the Wild World is available for touring .
Held on the High Wire
Created and performed by Jenny Q and Myshkin Warbler
Based on Jenny's book Held Together + Myshkin's album Trust and the High Wire
A candid, spellbinding multimedia performance that tells the story of Jenny's near death experience, sepsis survival, and new life on metal legs. Balancing urgency, reflection, humour and wonder, the show merges Jenny's raw, vulnerable memoir with Myshkin's haunting Folk/Jazz music. It explores sudden disability, queer family, resilience, love and transformation.
Made with the support of An Tobar and Mull Theatre, the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, and the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival.
A deeply moving piece of theatre that captures the power of personal storytelling with remarkable grace...a level of honesty and vulnerability that is both compelling and universally resonant...truly inspiring.
—Rebecca Atkinson Lord, Artistic Director at An Tobar and Mull Theatre.
Warning Signs
Warning Signs is a multimedia live show created in response to the 2016 U.S. election. Myshkin pulled songs from the back catalogue to illustrate each point on a list of warning signs of fascism, and created film collages from archival footage for each song. The band played to the film as it was projected onto and behind them, creating a powerfully immersive live experience. Warning Signs debuted in Joshua Tree in 2017, and was performed in California, Prague and Berlin in 2017.
See War Years, from the debut performance of Warning Signs here.
Myshkin's Royal Rabble Circus
Pulling inspiration from Barnum and Brecht, Dada and Cabaret, the Royal Rabble Circus creates performances that are sonically and visually enchanting, and creatively revelatory.
Myshkin’s interests, musical and otherwise, run wide and wild, and her repertoire is full of tall tales and sideshows. The Royal Rabble brings her most carnivalesque songs to life, illuminated by dancers and acrobats, and driven by a transcendent band.
The Joshua Tree Music Festival presented the first three Royal Rabble shows (10/2016, 5/2017 and 10/2017) the last of which, 100 Years of Absurdity, was reprised in late 2017 at Zircon & Wish's JT Big Top.
Many talented co-creators are involved in the Royal Rabble, the central off-stage collaborators being Celene De Miranda (stage management) Dominik Kranowski (lighting / props) and Jorge Davies (film & direction).
Exquisite, sublime, timeless, insightful, and gutsy are just a few of the words that need to be said about Myshkin’s body of work. Pairing her work with the circus of the absurd is brilliant. Beauty of soul, visual sweetness, an immense overture of composition, musically complex, built with humor and satire. Completely entertaining while reminding the viewer of the tender under belly of humanity.
—Brenda Littleton