Concert Review: Hannah Cohen Welcomes Home Bowery Ballroom

If you read my website often then you know I get deep and philosophical. I love talking about the mindful and emotional experience we call Life, and my hope is to promote a sense of elevation to readers. A hope that within you journeys of high and lows, you find an identity that is strong, peaceful, happy, determined, and, above all else, loved and willing to love. Hannah Cohen’s new music at Bowery Ballroom felt like a testament to t hope. 

From “All I Wanted” to “This Is Your Life,” Hannah’s newest works represented somebody accepting that life still works even if it is not according to your plans. I know this is, probably, a notion I got from a John Lennon quote book, but it is something everyone tries to accept with difficulty. How do you not feel like you are “Dissolving” when your actions still breed results, good or bad, but none you “wanted!” Thus, her music felt like “mature folk music;” journeying, guitar-led melodies for the thirty to forty-something that is realizing the difference between being young and feeling fresh. 

Hannah Cohen – This Is Your Life  

There is meekness to Hannah’s voice and demeanor that is hypnotizing and admirable. The words “steady” and “still” come to play, especially considering that her show felt like ab leather you have from you day. She emanates a natural warmth, particularly, because her voice has a hushing quality; as if she has taken every “hush” you heard from someone that loved you so as to tell you to not cry anymore. Considering “Welcome Home” caps a trajectory of growth and self-reflection, this is image is not off. Moreover, it shows the difference between being young and being “fresh” is the epiphany that you cannot cry for every sadness you get. 

Hannah Cohen – Wasting My Time (Official Audio)

It may seem like an “odd truth,” but life gives you many moments of joy that you deny and many moments of sadness that you accept; placing more requirements on what it takes to feel love rather than anger or self-hate. Hence, Hannah Cohen’s music spoke to the crowd gazing at her and their partner while sipping a beer. Leaning into the mic as if it was the sun, and to get too close could leave her burned, she coolly forwards herself toward it; as if to both absorb and emote the radiance of her songs. For More Information On Hannah Cohen Click Here.