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 San Rafael based singer-songwriter Jerry Hannan has quickly become one of the most talked-about performer in the San Francisco Bay area. After spending time touring internationally, he is now recorded and released his second CD "Sounds Like a Story". In this last year, Jerry's music has been finding new audiences. He has a new song (DaDaDa) featured in the Sean Penn film, "The Pledge" and acted and performed in Sam Shepard's play, "The Late Henry Moss, "at San Francisco's Theatre on the Square (along with Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Cheech Marin and Woody Harrelson). He also appears as a raucous singer who offsets a romantic conversation between Sarah Jessica Parker and Harry Connick Jr. in Sony Picture's "Life Without Dick".
Often described as "shades of Dylan, John Prine and Van Morrison...very Americana with a faint Irish lilt", Hannan's songs (like those of Springsteen, Steve Earle and Cat Stevens) speak of our everyday lives and the magic that we sometimes miss. A storyteller who loves nothing better than to sit around after a show and talk to people in the audience and hear some good stories. His irreverent, twisted style has been described as smart, often funny, sardonic in a good-natured way, dealing with issues like ecology, friendship, love, public drunkenness. More important, "these tunes have irrepressible melodies with Velcro-catchy pop hooks--says Paul Liberatore of the Marin Independent Journal.
Raised on jigs and ballads in San Francisco's Irish community, Jerry Hannan grew up listening to the music of his Irish-born parents (The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers), as well as Cat Stevens (he learned and loved every Cat Stevens song). As a youngster he took accordion and violin lessons, switching to guitar in high school and playing in rock 'n roll bands. He was a member of the popular Marin County rock band, The Kind, in the 80's.
After high school, he studied business and music in college before moving to Southern California, where "I just didn't do music for seven years," he says. "I still had a guitar and I'd make up songs once in a while and go down to a cafe' and just sing."
After moving back to Northern California, he booked some time in a Marin County recording studio just to record a couple of original songs that he had written, "so I'll have something to listen when I'm old, he said. The owner of the studio called me up and said that they would record the whole album for free." Thus the Mad Hannans, Jerry's first independent recording project was born. Recorded with his brother Sean, the Mad Hannans became a band with the recording of "Madly in Love With You" a purely recreational project of Americana Rock, which would unexpectedly change his life.
In addition to his success on the Bay Area music scene, Hannan has made quite a name for himself touring in what he call his homeland, Ireland, where he has brought down the house in venues such as the Submarine in Dublin and the Half Moon Ballroom down in Cork City. The band competed in and won the Guinness Fleadh Battle of the Bands contest which landed them on Stage at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California with Tracy Chapman and Sinead O'Connor headlining the event.
As for musical influences, there's the before-mentioned Cat Stevens, John Prine, Springsteen ballads, traditional Irish music, "But I am mostly influenced by the idiosyncrasies of the people around me."
Jerry Hannan's infectious sounds can be heard on numerous Triple A format radio. His live performances are attended by seasoned fans anxious to, "get their fix." They listen. They participate. They feel among friends.
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