After supporting Kasey Chambers on 32 dates around Australia, Southland's Jenny Mitchell is hitting the road to celebrate the release of her new album ‘Forest House.’ NZ Best Country Artist Winner and 2 x Golden Guitar nominee, Jenny is a Melbourne based storyteller from the deep south of New Zealand. With impactful songs full of grace and grit, Rolling Stone describes her as an artist “worthy of every award she will inevitably collect.”

‘Forest House’ is a collection of songs that reflect everything that can happen within four walls; the new beginnings, the leaving. The opening, closing or slamming of doors. The good, the bad, the nostalgic and everything in between. Recorded in a house nestled in the rural Wairarapa of New Zealand, ‘Forest House’ released on May 16 2025 via Melbourne based label Civilians.

“Her songwriting sits well between the darkness and the light that this genre is capable of when at its very best.” — Ambient Light

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 last album ‘Tug of War’ was nominated for Alt Country Album of the Year at the 2023 Golden Guitar Awards and included the pivotal release of the 2022 APRA NZ Best Country Song ‘Trouble Finds a Girl,’ an anthemic response to mistreatment of women in the music industry.

Jenny grew up in a home of music and often tours with her sisters, The Mitchell Twins, and country music loving Dad, Ron Mitchell – who all feature on ‘Forest House.’ 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.