Live Review - Hannah Turner
GSMC Online Music Club - Saturday 2nd January 2021
Hannah Turner is a Surrey based singer and songwriter who is well known on the local live music circuit and most recently instigated a Community Christmas video featuring dozens of Surrey/ Hampshire based musicians which has raised over £1500 for the Challengers Charity. Hannah started the first GSMC Online Music Club performance of 2021 with the hauntingly beautiful ‘A Million & One Things’ written on a travel guitar two years ago whilst on holiday, followed by a lovely version of ‘Little Bird’ by Lisa Hannigan. Another original song ‘The Haze’ is a song about shaking off other people’s toxic energy which features Hannah’s exceptional finger style guitar playing.
What I love about Hannah’s songs is the emphasis is very much centred on storytelling as is the case with ‘Hampstead Heath’ which Hannah performed on piano, about three people who swim at the pond, with beautiful music that sits perfectly aside the lyrics and which invokes wonderful images. Another cover “A Case of You” written by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor was followed by an original song ‘Truth and Lies’ based around the character Mrs Coulter from the ‘His Dark Materials’ novels by Philip Pullman. ‘Wait’ is a song about just wanting to have a moment for all those introverts out there and Hannah finished her set with ‘The Whistler’ which is a song about her Grand Farther.
All in all a fantastic performance which demonstrates just how much talent is out there producing great music and although not the same as a ‘real live’ show a great way to keep music live and keep us all entertained whilst we are all locked up in our homes.
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