Sands Hall

In addition to being a singer/songwriter, SANDS HALL is a published writer—fiction, memoir, essays—and this delight in language extends to her lyrics. Her voice and guitar chops make it easy to reference Joni Mitchell, yet she has a style and a voice all her own, and she twines all kinds of influences—folk, jazz, country, blues—into her songs. Her extensive work as a theatre artist gives her a compelling presence as a performer. 

Sands tackles love in its many forms—she sings about crashed love and celebrated love and lost love and even the love we have for those whose “sturdy boots,” as she puts it “have delivered you into a different kind of dawn.” Yet a wellspring of joy pulses beneath even her most serious songs. 

Sands performs widely, both solo and with an array of musicians, in large venues and intimate ones, including an historic theatre in the Sierra Nevada, a speakeasy in upstate New York, a vineyard in Napa, and a piazza in Colorado.