Music of the Mountains: Where to be and what to see -- Shanna in a Dress

The woman known in her performances as Shanna in a Dress (you can learn the story of her real name by seeing her live) started her musical journey at the University of Virginia, where she learned how to play guitar for the first time. She says teaching herself guitar was how she procrastinated studying while working towards a kinesiology major with a concentration in exercise physiology. An Ingrid Michaelson concert she saw expanded her horizons as to what a live concert could entail, and the big reveal of her new desire to be a singer-songwriter came as a result of secretly building up a repertoire of original material and finding the right time to perform it live.

In the end, she invited all of the friends and family she could to her university’s concert hall, not telling them what she would be doing on stage, but strongly encouraging them to attend. She recalls around 80 people showing up, saying that the first show set up hallmarks of the shows to come: funny songs mixed with heartfelt songs, a variety of instruments, a planned encore, and participation from the audience.

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