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Hannah Georgas with Bells Larsen

April 11 @ 8:00 pm

$38

Acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas crafts textured pop songs with lyrics about heartbreak and change, coupled with incredibly catchy hooks. After her debut EP in 2009, Hannah released four full-length albums to acclaim in outlets at home and abroad including The Guardian, The New York Times, Pitchfork and NPR Music. She has become a household name in her native Canada; headlining on festival bills, garnering multiple nominations, including three for the Polaris Music Prize and five JUNO nominations ranging from Best New Artist to Songwriter of the Year. She has supported high profile acts such as Sara Bareilles, The National, Broken Social Scene, Boy and Bear and more. Her music has been featured in over 50 film/TV placements including an end credit usage in HBO’s Girls. 2019 culminated with her on tour with The National on their I Am Easy To Find cycle for dates in Germany, the USA, Canada, Switzerland and the UK, performing opening slots of her own music and joining the band as part of an all-female chorus Kate Stables (aka This is the Kit). Hannah is currently on tour supporting her latest self-produced album, I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care (released August 25, 2023). Rolling Stone described the highly anticipated album as “impressive and earnest songwriting” while AllMusic says it “stands as her best to this point in her career” and The Telegraph wrote “evokes the idiosyncratic indie of Feist, and packs the raw, emotive lyrical punch of Regina Spektor”.

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How can we forge new forms of coming home to ourselves? On his sophomore album Blurring Time (2025), Bells Larsen collapses time into a series of patient ceremonies. Guided by the satisfaction of simply “being” as a political act, the record explores the ways we write the ever-arriving self into existence. Oscillating between lo-fi 90s indie and searing folk ballads, Larsen’s project features the haunting accompaniment of voices frozen in time. Aligning with his transition timeline, he recorded his previous “high” voice and instrumentation in 2022, waited for his voice to drop after starting testosterone, and asked longtime friend and frequent collaborator Georgia Harmer to arrange harmonies for his new “low” voice. Together, they created a multilingual, intentional act of surrendering to change. Unlike past projects where vocals were set in the backdrop, Blurring Time unites both voices at the forefront, delivering an unyielding devotional. Produced by Graham Ereaux, Larsen’s intricately-crafted arrangements evoke Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, and Adrienne Lenker. His lyrics meditate on sibling dynamics, queer world-making, and shared epiphanies, enveloped in soundscapes of quiet intimacy. Larsen’s debut album Good Grief (2022), created during an artist residency in Banff, mourned the death of first love as a collective empathy exercise. Featured in The Line of Best Fit, Under the Radar, and CBC, he has shared stages with Buck Meek, Martha Wainwright, and Land of Talk. If Good Grief reached outward in loss, Blurring Time archives Larsen’s journey of self-actualization, harmonizing voices of past and present into a quiet yielding to the constant state of becoming.

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Details

Date:
April 11
Time:
8:00 pm
Cost:
$38
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.tixr.com/groups/sonicunyon/events/hannah-georgas-116101

Venue

Sonic Hall
12 Wyndham St. N., Second Level
Guelph, Ontario N1H 4C5 Canada
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