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Happy to announce I grabbed two awards at the Canadian Folk Music Awards - Contemporary Album of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year. Woot! Woot!
On the back of his latest release Long Haul, John was nominated in three categories at the Canadian Folk Music Awards - Contemporary Album of the Year…
Okay, let's try this touring thing again. We are playing around Alberta with a wee dip into Saskatchewan. Details and tix info are at tour dates.
It’s finally here! Thanks to the good guys at Louis Studios and Cottonwood Records for making this awesome video.
I've played in halls and theatres, parks and barns, garages and wash houses, and even a jail but I've never played inside a grain elevator. That's until now.
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John Wort Hannam
In 2001 John Wort Hannam quit his teaching job and spent 10 months depleting his savings while sat at his kitchen table, wearing a lucky hat, writing his first ten songs. Those songs would become his first recording Pocket Full Of Holes, released in 2003.
Seventeen years later, the Alberta musician is releasing his seventh full-length recording Acres Of Elbow Room and has a few feathers in that lucky hat for his first six offerings. Feathers that include a JUNO nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Album of the Year, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, a Kerrville Texas New Folk win, and numerous Western Canadian Music Award and Canadian Folk Music Award nominations.
Recent years have seen a great deal of change in John’s life - becoming a Dad, turning 50, a move to the “big city” of Lethbridge, a long, deep bout of depression, and episodes of losing his singing voice. But John has emerged a better songwriter, a better singer, and a better player. On Acres Of Elbow Room, John has further refined his lyrical style and has landed squarely on his niche in the folk-roots world. He’s spent years learning the craft of songwriting and is taking those tools to write some of his most personal songs. He has, quite literally, found his voice.