Shanna in a Dress is your quirky best friend who refuses to wear pants. She says what everyone has felt but no one else will say, and you’ll get an uncensored journey of clever humor and heartbreak, extreme candor and a hefty side of entertainment at her shows.
This witty wordsmith is known for taking you on an emotional roller coaster, sometimes within the same song. Think John Prine mixed with Ingrid Michaelson with a twist of Phoebe Buffay from “Friends” all wrapped up in a sweet voice accented by guitar, piano and ukulele. She’s as real as it gets, as anyone who follows her on Facebook or Instagram knows.
SHOW INFO:
WHO: Shanna in a Dress
WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Society Hall, Alamosa
TICKETS: www.societyhall.org
Shanna Hoar is Shanna in a Dress and her next performance is Saturday, March 7, at Society Hall in Alamosa. She hits the concert hall stage for a 7 p.m. show. Tickets are $20 and available at the Green Spot or online at www.societyhall.org.
Shanna started her career at the University of Virginia, fell in love with Boulder, and now keeps her fun music flowing out of Nashville unless she’s touring the United States or Europe. You can’t get the same Shanna in a Dress show twice with her spontaneous banter and playful stage presence. She manages to teeter the line masterfully of taking on complex subject matters with smart, bold, and yet accessible lyrics. Her charisma and boldly honest songs are full of interesting language and wordplay and delight audiences of all ages.
Most recently, Shanna in a Dress won the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriting Contest; she returned to perform on the main stage with a full band at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. In 2020 alone, Shanna was a winner in the Kerrville New Folk competition, winner of the Great River Folk Fest Song Competition, a finalist at Songwriter Serenade, and a Grassy Hill Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
During the summer of 2021, Shanna bicycled from Seattle to Boston while music-touring on her epic “Tour de Dress,” playing more than 60 shows from coast to coast and partnering up with the global non-profit Pangaea World Foundation.
In May 2022, her debut record “Robot” was released after a wildly successful crowdfunded campaign years earlier. She has most recently been seen gracing the stages of Kerrville Folk Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Black Bear Americana Fest, Great River Folk Fest and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Tom Prasada-Rao calls her “Kerrville’s fastest rising star” and says, “She’s certainly delightfully unique and is one to watch in the future.”
Shanna’s second album, “Sweet Spot,” was released on Feb. 27.