Kristy Hanson

With Labor Day approaching (and my sister’s birthday, today!), I’ve got that back-to-school feeling, and I like it. I always look forward to summer, but for some reason I just have a good feeling about this fall and the new things it will bring. Time to get back to work, everyone – after, of course, you relax this weekend!

I’m currently pretty focused on my work here in Los Angeles – writing more songs and planning collaborations as well as playing local shows. I’ve got a couple coming up in September, including Hollowbody LA Presents: Acoustic Cordiale at Cafe Cordiale on September 22nd. Dinner and a show (and no cover)! I hope you’ll join me. For those of you elsewhere in the country, I’m sorry to say that I’m having to keep my focus local at the moment, and touring plans are currently shelved – but not put away forever! I love being on the road, and I will make it happen one of these days…stay tuned.

To wrap up my musings on Lilith Fair and women in music, I decided to record a cover of a Sarah McLachlan song that I always adored. I taught this song to myself on piano many years ago, and would play it over and over. This song served as my first transposition project, since it was a couple steps too low for me, and one can’t really use on a capo on the piano. Not effectively, anyway…

Here’s a link to my own little guitar version of “Ice Cream.” I hope you’ll enjoy, and that it might inspire your own trips down memory lane as well.