Hemma - The 715 Series

Join Hemma and friends in continuing the celebratory release of her new album, Abalone Sky. Hemma will be joined by Pat Kuehn, Ben Lester and Shane Leonard for an unforgettable evening of music.Hemma’s music comes from her deep experience asamusician, student of dance and art and life. Eau Claire native, Hannah Hebl, whose nom de music is Hemma, Swedish for “home," spent much of her childhood withher family’s band, The Hebl Family Singers, and learned the ins and outs of recording studios, performing, songwriting and guitar and piano. For the young Hannah, her big ears for music took in Prince, Joni Mitchell, Broadway musicals, Los Angeles folk rock, and much more. After beginning her career as Hemma over a decade ago, she cut her debut EP Hallelu with producer Jaime Hansen, whom she credits for pushing her into doing what she was meant to do. She was 20, and the following years took her to San Francisco to study art, Montreal for dance, with songs being written at a constant rate. Her latestfull-length album Abalone Sky, continues in the soul-searching mode witht he first three single tracks from the album, “Grief,” “Lullabies” and “Homebody.” With production from Sean Carey and Brian Joseph at Brian’s Eau Claire, Wisconsin studio, hive. Hemma’s new music is modern folk-rock-pop with a big heart and lots of nuance. Americana Highways writes,“In modern terms, Abalone Sky is similar to the more Nashville-centric progressive folk of Sarah Jarosz. Like Jarosz, whose recent work with producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian expands the sonic palette of folk rock, Hemma tweaks the arrangements and sonics on Abalone Sky with production that pushes at the edges of folk-rock orthodoxy.” Hemma says of Abalone Sky:“ During a moment of skygazing on the central coast of California, there came a swirling sensation of both awe and calm—being overcome by the beauty of what appears to be the underbelly of a shell in the sky.” It’s the next step in Hemma’s journey after the mastery of her 2019 EP Tomorrow River and a prayer for the kind of lightness of being that keeps us afloat in the current of time. VolumeOne Magazine writes, “Tomorrow River feels like the culmination of a lifetime seeking out music as a means of understanding and making peace with the greater world around her.” Along the way, Hemma has opened for artists likeYeVagabonds, Marika Hackman, Mike Kota, S. Carey, Humbird and The Cactus Blossoms, enlarging her presence in the Midwest music scene. Hemma has also become known as a superb backing vocalist who’s sung with many of the artists in the vibrant Eau Claire-TwinCities, like Pieta Brown,Wendy Lewis and Rachel Ries. Her versatility extends to the recording studio and to the stage, in equal measures.Hemma continues to push the margins of pop-folk on Abalone Sky, released in April 2025. It’s a ripening and crystalizing of her sound—a sonic signature that serves as an artist’s mission statement.

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