Oh Susanna with Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage

Searching for identity is the hallmark of youth, and Vancouver in the 1980s was a place on the verge of knowing. Here, Oh Susanna (Suzie Ungerleider) discovers what it means to be undone by love, the exuberant freedom under the cover of night, and music bursting with riotous rebellion. Like a coming of age novel, A Girl In Teen City, is both piercingly specific and exhilaratingly familiar. No matter where you grew up, or where you live, the songs will bring you home.

Huddled round a single vintage microphone, singing intimate duets with just mountain dulcimer, Dobro and guitar Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage (The Willows), are a folk duo that look & sound classically timeless, yet feel refreshingly unique. Fleetingly, they may evoke a memory of Shirley Collins & Davy Graham, (from the 60’s), Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris (70’s), or Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (the 90’s) but their warm distilling of influences from both sides of the big pond produces a refined sound that is decidedly their own. “Duet singing has always been a mainstay of folk music,” says Hannah.