Hannah Kaminer & The Wistfuls

About Hannah Kaminer

Hannah Kaminer is an Asheville-based alt-country/indie artist known for her poignant songwriting, clear voice, and often comedic stage presence. Kaminer writes gut-punch lyrics about love, loss, and home, painting portraits of small town Appalachian life while wrestling with themes like gentrification and overdevelopment, bait-and-switch religion, codependence and dysfunctional relationships. She finds hope in potlucks and bonfires, hospitality towards strangers, and the trees and rivers that will outlast us all. 

She has released three studio albums: Acre by Acre (2015), Heavy Magnolias (2018), and Heavy on the Vine (2024) which she produced with her full band, Hannah & The Wistfuls. (Full band bio here.)

Press for Heavy on the Vine:

Her latest album, Heavy on the Vine, was released in January 2024, and has garnered play and a Studio B session at WNCW as well as reviews and playlists by the New York Times, 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.”

Additional Projects:

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! 

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.