Hannah White

Hannah White is a Americana UK Award Winning artist whose music has been featured on BBC Radio 2, Spotify Official, BBC6 Music and who has toured internationally. Maverick wrote: ?The emotion she conveys in her vocal delivery gives you chills as her words tug at your heart strings.? Acoustic magazine called White ?arresting and wholly believable. A voice you will want to protect and become besotted with,? while W21 Music wrote of ?the restraint, the range, the softness, the clarity...a masterpiece." Following appearances this latest festival season at Glastonbury, Black Deer, The Long Road Festival and more, Hannah is currently opening for Paul Carrack on a major UK tour.. All of that is a long way, and yet a short hop, from Sidcup, where Hannah was born and started picking up instruments at an early age. ?I played piano and violin,? she says. ?I got to learn because our borough gave free music lessons to families on benefits. I first picked up a guitar because my cousin had one and showed me a few chords. Although I couldn?t do much on it, I ended up playing it more than the other instruments because of how portable it was and great to write with.? White remains passionately committed to the idea of music as a force for good, and it's that genuine belief, which reaches far beyond her own musical ambitions. ?Music has such a power over me,? she says. ?It's got me through some of the darkest times and I don't know what I'd be doing without it. I feel so strongly that if everybody had that opportunity, so many people's lives could be transformed.? It's that down-to-earth sincerity that is stamped on Hannah's personality just as it is on her music. When people talk about her songs, they talk about her combination of autobiographical honesty, social conscience and joyful musicality, and that conversation is getting louder all the time.