Lindsay Clark with Hanna Haas at The Lost Church Santa Rosa

Hanna Haas is a songwriter drawn to the dance of light and dark. Based in Portland Oregon and recently relocated to her native California, she has come to call the entire West Coast home. Hanna describes her music as “contemplative folk,” identifying with artists such as Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and Feist for their alternate tunings and mesmerizing melodies. Inspired by the environments in which she has inhabited, Hanna sings of the dramatic landscape of Big Sur, the California sun and the vast and open Pacific Northwest sky. Her debut album “To Her, the Sea” is out now. Each song seeks to capture the blessings and curses of our lives and the beauty of both—such as how warm and pleasant the sun feels after many days of rain, how bright the stars can shine amidst such darkness, how small one can feel when looking up at the vast sky. The album was produced and engineered by Sean Ogilvie and features a talented cast including Zach Gerzon, Luke Ydstie (Blind Pilot), Dan Hunt (Neko Case), Jeremy Ferrera (Margo Cilker), Nate Crockett (Horse Feathers) Micah Rabwin, Denzel Mendoza, Philippe Bronchtein, and Jeffrey Martin.