Gillian Grogan & Hanna Haas PRESENT
THE QUIET SHOW: Soft Songs for Darker Days...
Doors & Dinner 5PM || Show 7PM
As the days grow darker, and you reach for something soft, Gillian Grogan and Hanna Haas invite you to join them for a special live performance of The Quiet Show: Soft Songs for Darker Days. The Quiet Show was born in an effort to bring people together to hear unplugged, acoustic music during Grogan’s earlier New England chapter. The two have since revived the show here in California to recreate that spaciousness for both story and song, to perform their most tender tunes, which often fall to a whisper and even play with silence. In particular, as the nights grow long and mirror the swelling darkness in our broader world, it feels right to gather and listen and offer our delicate truths. To hold a candle to the best and worst of it all. They need no excuse to sing and harmonize but relish the opportunity to learn each others’ catalogs and share some exquisite, collaborative covers they’ve found along the way. Their first Quiet Show sold out almost immediately, so this winter, they’re bringing The Quiet Show all across California and featuring some of their favorite, quietest local songwriters and special guests along the way.
The Quiet Show comes back to Mendocino County on Thursday, December 11th! With our beloved Good Bones Kitchen closing its doors at the end of the year, this promises to be an extra special evening. Please bring your own little candle to help us keep the light. See you there.
Gillian Grogan is a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and van-dweller with roots in Sonoma County. Grogan has woven bits of folk, indie, rock, and nature itself into a sonic landscape “unlike anything else you’ve heard in 'folk' music today” (Ear To The Ground). Tickled strings, floating vocals, hammered riffs and belted requests—she has taken the plot and given it curves, let it swell and shrink back again. Untamed and untethered, her pure yet earthy voice will silence the room one moment and have it in stitches the next. NPR Music's Felix Contreras calls her songwriting "six strings and the truth." She calls it “full-bodied folk.”
Grogan is working on her second studio album at 2200 Studios in Sausalito, CA (formerly The Record Plant) with Grammy-nominated co-producer Ben Bloomberg and Grammy-nominated recording engineer Damien Lewis. Honey Moon explores questions without answers, love without purpose, and chords without resolve. It embraces readiness without preparation, vulnerabilities without judgement, and seeks to release the present from the past. It is a collection of songs and interludes that speak to a single truth—that it is our flaws which make us most beautiful, just as it is the dust and pollution in the earth’s atmosphere which casts a warm amber hue on the moon at the horizon, as it rises, as it falls, and rises again.
https://gilliangrogan.com
https://linktr.ee/gilliangrogan
Hanna Haas is a songwriter drawn to the dance of light and dark. Based in the Bay Area, she’s come to call the entire West Coast home. She describes her music as “contemplative folk,” identifying with artists like Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and Feist for their alternate tunings and mesmerizing melodies. Inspired by the places she’s lived, Hanna sings of the dramatic cliffs of Big Sur, the California sun, and the vast, open sky of the Pacific Northwest. Hanna loves to engage her audiences in sweet storytelling and laughter, leaving her audience in a state of heart-felt introspection.
https://hanna-haas.com