John Wort Hannam

September 25 2010

7:00pm

From the prairies in Southern Alberta comes one of Canada

songwriters, John Wort Hannam. For five years John Wort Hannam taught grade

9 language arts on the largest reserve in Canada – The Kainai Nation, part of the

Blackfoot Confederacy. But in 1997 he heard a Loudon Wainwright III record and

was hooked by the music and stories. In 1998 he bought a guitar and learnt

some chords. In 2002 he quit teaching and began to pursue the dream of being

a working musician. John has achieved some fine accolades in a few short years

in cluding a mainstage performance at the 2009 Kerrville Folk Fest, three Grand

Prizes at the Calgary Folk Fest Songwriting Competition, and numerous

nominations and awards. With comparisons to Gordon Lightfoot, James

Keelaghan, and John Prine, John Wort Hannam is a born story- teller with a keen

eye for the quirky and lyrics that create stories behind the songs.