Hannah Frances with Louisa Stancioff

Vocalist, guitarist, composer and poet Hannah Frances brings her acclaimed mix of progressive rock, avant-folk, and jazz for her SPACE debut.

Hannah Frances (b. 1997) is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, guitarist, composer, and poet that NPR’s Ann Powers calls “a stunning vocalist and songwriter, making monumental and mythic music.” Frances was awarded Pitchfork’s Best New Music for her critically acclaimed 2024 album Keeper of the Shepherd and Best Albums of 2025 from the likes of Pitchfork, Paste Magazine, NPR, and Stereogum for her latest album Nested in Tangles — her first release with Fire Talk Records.

With this distinctive body of work, Frances solidifies herself as an artist of insurgent emotional clarity, committed to personal truth and actualization. On this album, she narrates complex stories of familial estrangement, emotional trauma, and a deepening of her own sense of trust, through a collection of intricate, dizzying, and large-scale compositions. Nested in Tangles spans the realms of progressive rock, avant-folk, and jazz, but remains anchored throughout with Frances’ signature vocal leaps and percussive, polyrhythmic fingerpicking.

A persistent troubadour, Frances lives in Vermont with roots in Chicago, though she is most often touring internationally and nationally, opening for artists such as Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, Florist, Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Weather Station, Hiss Golden Messenger, Billie Marten, Whitney, and Damien Jurado, among others.

Whether performing as a solo act or leading her full ten-piece ensemble, her mythology spellbinds with an insistent gravity.

Born and raised in the foothills of Western Maine, Louisa Stancioff learned to entertain herself by singing songs with her sister and playing the piano, fiddle, guitar and any other instrument lying around the house. Stancioff grew up learning traditional Balkan music from her paternal grandfather’s side of the family, and reveled in singing American folk and roots tunes with her friends. She moved through life nomadically in her early adulthood, living in upstate New York, Western North Carolina, Montana and California, and gathered her songwriting material along the way, playing in multiple bands throughout those years.

Currently settled in Midcoast Maine, she has toured this iteration of her indie folk band all across the country, headlining and opening for bands such as Blitzen Trapper, Pokey Lafarge, Darlingside, The Dead Tongues, Micaela Davis and more.

Backed by her talented bandmates, her intelligent and soulful writing pairs with a confident and catchy indie sound drawing on folk, rock, pop, and her own balkan heritage.

Louisa’s debut album When We Were Looking was released in 2024 under Yep Roc Records.