Hannah Kaminer & The Wistfuls

About Hannah Kaminer

Hannah Kaminer is an artist and singer-songwriter writing songs about love, loss, and home. Raised in small towns in Western North Carolina, she fuses echoes of Appalachian and country traditions with wistful, Americana-style songwriting. She has released three studio albums: Acre by Acre (2015), Heavy Magnolias (2018) which was co-produced with GRAMMY-winning engineer Julian Dreyer, and Heavy on the Vine (2024) which she produced with her band, The Wistfuls.

Her latest album, Heavy on the Vine, was released in January 2024, and has garnered play and a Studio B session at WNCWas well as reviews and mentions by the NYTimes, Americana-UK, The Bluegrass Situation, and AltCountry(NL). Kaminer and her band continue to promote the album in the Southeast U.S. and beyond. Hannah and the band were named one of the “Best Things We Saw at AVLFest 2024” by Rolling Stone.

In 2024, she also played her first international tour to France and the UK alongside Asheville-based acts The Moon & You and Amanda Anne Platt, leading one Americana UK writer to note, “At times reminiscent of Iris Dement, full of emotional honesty and intensity… [Kaminer] is a songwriter of the highest order. Hannah Kaminer is a name we should all be hearing a lot more of.”

Kaminer's songs have been recognized with two North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grants, in the finals of the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest (at MerleFest), and in Asheville's Brown Bag Songwriting Competition. She has also been recognized for her work to produce Music for Quarantine in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In late 2025, Kaminer joined forces with another Asheville-based act, The Moon & You, to produce Dark Turn of Mind: A Haunted Americana Tour, which performed its haunted-themed show (named after a slightly terrifying Gillian Welch song) in Greensboro, Asheville, Durham, Athens, and Columbia. The show is sure to return weirder than ever in 2026! (More about Dark Turn of Mind here.)