Biography

Shannon Hawley’s second studio album STARTHROWERS is a memoir in song with anthemic choruses paying homage to caretakers who did the brave and often overlooked task of loving. 
 She sings certain phrases with a haunting knowing, the way the word ocean rolls out of her mouth, the sometimes lulling but mostly visceral waves. And the way she comes down on the word bones reminds us of what we are made of. The songs touch on the bittersweetness of life and death and the ones who had to grieve to know what they loved. The honey collector’s heartaches and offerings. Deeply rooted in New Jersey, she wrote the songs while on an epic odyssey from her hometown through Brooklyn, Ithaca, Argentina, Vermont, Los Angeles, California, Costa Rica and then back home again while the world collapsed in on itself and attempts to learn its lessons. 
 Her last album “A Different Kind of Progress” a collection of fairy tales and fantasy vignettes writ large with an understated acoustic sound and intimate voice was influenced by poets; Rumi, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and Tagore. This time she is drawing the material mostly from her own life and the lives of her ancestors, and women's stories. 
 Sparse crashing guitars, layered electronic and synth accents nodding to EDM with the influence of her collaborator and producer Nekter Gun, her clear voice with the same dedication to storytelling and the bold choruses represent her journey to this embodied memoir in song.