Hannah Dasher
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Nashville's best-kept secret: Hannah Dasher.
Aside from Hannah's work ethic, her strong, non-conforming, swaggy lyrics set her apart from her peers early on, earning her the nickname Hannah Damn Dasher. Accompanying her big hair and her larger-than-life personality is a voice that's even bigger.
During the quarantine summer of 2020, Dasher decided to try out her comedic, country music-infused cooking series, "Stand By Your Pan" on TikTok. Within six months, her platform grew from 12,000 followers to over a million. "People appreciate that I'm authentically unfiltered Hannah, and I'm very confident in who God made me to be," she says.
Quite the entertainer beyond the kitchen, the triple threat is now a Fender Next Artist, and the face of the new 2021 Telecaster coming this fall. "Jaren Johnston (from the band The Cadillac Three) gave me my first electric guitar a few years ago and said, 'Now here. Learn it!' So I did. I don't know the notes, I just play by ear."
Once Sony discovered and then signed Dasher, she says, her team was careful about the timing of her releases, because in country music, timing can be everything. "They never made me feel like I wasn't enough," the CMT Next Women of Country says. And now that the time is right, Dasher is all in. She was born to entertain, and now she's devoted 32 years of hard work to perfecting her art. It shows at all her shows. Hannah Damn Dasher, indeed.
Tori Forsyth
QMA Winner, ARIA nominated and 7x Golden Guitar Award-nominated artist Tori Forsyth is back & has just released a brand new album filled with breathtakingly authentic and innovative country music.
First single released off the album; 'Sometimes' features friend and country music icon Shane Nicholson. Sometimes was nominated for Vocal Collaboration of the Year at the Toyota 52nd Golden Guitar Awards.
Third single 'Good Enough' is the most delicate and introspective moment on the album, underscored by a ringing guitar and lilting harmonies enhanced by Australian Country Music legend Kasey Chambers.
Tori has been cultivating a steadily growing fanbase since the release of her evocative single 'New Wall' and her acclaimed EP Black Bird (2016). Tori's highly anticipated 2018 debut album Dawn of the Dark was hailed as one of the standout country album releases of the year and her second album Provlépseis (2021) produced singles 'Be Here' and 'Down Below' which resonated with her loyal fans. Tori currently boasts over 15 million artist global streams on Spotify alone.
From her appearances at Gympie Muster, BigSound 2023, a Jackson Dean tour support, Groundwater Country Music Festival there is a newfound freedom and lightness propelling Tori back to her rightful place at the forefront of Australian country music.
The album 'All We Have Is Who We Are' was released on the 3rd of May 2024 and gained the #1 iTunes album spot as well as 'Country Album Of The Week' on ABC Saturday Night Country.
Kat Hasty
Kat Hasty was writing songs before she could put a pen to paper. "All I ever wanted was to be a writer. Everything else was an afterthought," said Hasty. "I never knew I would go on tour or be part of the business. I was just writing to deal with life."
Raised, and still rooted in West Texas, her songs have been shaped by the desolation of the desert, the rough and rowdy crowd that comes through these small oil towns, and early signs of depression and an ever present sense of melancholy. Her breakout moment arrived with 2021's "Pretty Things," a song that took off online and led to touring the US and Europe, accolades in press and a distribution deal with Thirty Tigers.
Her first EP, Drowning in Dreams, resonated far beyond what she could have imagined and earned her a wave of dedicated listeners. Now, Kat is stepping into a bold new era with her sophomore project, Time of Your Life, set to arrive this May. The album marks her first full-band project and a significant departure from the stripped-down acoustic style that introduced her to the world. She'll be teasing the direction and atmosphere of the record with "Family Business," a rocked-up recording of a previously acoustic track. Time of Your Life is more akin to the energy of her live shows, embracing a full band accompaniment while still holding tight to the West Texas perspective that sets her apart.
