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a bit raunchy, a bit cutting edge, a bit traditional, a bit sincere, a bit sarcastic … and always entertaining -David Meyers, Davis Enterprise
It takes true balls to play a half dozen anxiety tunes and then ask: “are y’all having a good time?” And, oddly enough, yes I am . . . -anonymous fan, Chehalis WA
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About Stephanie |
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Folkpop songstress Stephanie Haffner shares brutally honest, wickedly funny, excellent original songs about boys, girls, coffee, anxiety, redevelopment, suburbia, rock-n-roll & all manner of real life — all presented with fine guitar work and (according to fans) flat-out beautiful voice. Stephanie started composing songs at a wee age when she would walk the “99 acres” between the Gallup NM school bus stop and home, singing to herself. She fell into writing songs down during a break from studies at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall school of law, and quickly began building a following around the SF Bay area. After law school, she found herself in the CA Central Valley community of Stockton, contributing to Stockton and Sacramento music scenes by hosting countless open mics, songwriter shows, and queer & grrl-friendly productions - all while holding down her day job as a fearless legal aid lawyer. In November 2003 she released a second, self-produced CD - Sub Urban Poet: the Lawyer Songs - to a sold out release party at Sacramento's beloved True Love Coffeehouse. Sub Urban Poet presents a minimalist, solo, political, self-produced, acoustic-electric-spoken word follow-up to the multi-layered acoustic lovelorn pop of her December 2001 release: Are You the One? (produced by Laura Chandler). Love of girls and music convinced Stephanie to move to Long Beach in July 2004 – where she's obsessively (if quietly) exploring Los Angles County’s fertile musical turf. Stephanie’s music benefits from years of training in piano, guitar and violin, madrigal singing, and -- since elementary school -- participation in every chorus she could find. None of this training, though, explains her comedic sense of timing. It’s this package of wit, skill and unabashed honesty that’s arrested progressive, political, queer and not-so-queer audiences around Northern, Central and Southern California, & beyond. |
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Selected Venues |
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Rose Street House of Music, Berkeley Epic Arts Studio, Berkeley Stuart’s Coffeehouse, Bellingham WA The Matrix, Chehalis WA Moxie’s, Chico Gay Pride Day, Davis Main Street Station, Guerneville Molly Malone's, Los Angeles Moonshadow, Los Angeles Protection & Advocacy, Inc., Los Angeles Voyeur Café, Olympia WA Touchstone Coffeehouse, Portland OR Burlingame Acoustic Room, Portland OR |
Serendipity II, Redding Hotel Utah, San Francisco Luna Sea Theater, San Francisco Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco The Fox & Goose, Sacramento Human Rights Festival, Sacramento Sactown Xpress: Festival of Political Culture True Love Coffeehouse, Sacramento Luna's Cafe, Sacramento I’ll Show You Mine (the Savoy), San Jose The Caffeine Den, Stockton World AIDS Day, Stockton Café Luna, Vashon Island WA |
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Associations |
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Indiegrrl Performing Member Member, Folk Alliance Member, PASA (Political Artists of the Sacramento Area) Host/MC 3rd Saturdays at LLACE, Queer Performance Open Stage, Sacramento, 2002-04 Host/MC, 2002 & 2003 Summer Music Series, The Open Book, Sacramento Performing member, DivaBands, SF Bay Area indie women musicians, 2001-02 |
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Airplay |
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Radio Free Berkeley KKUP Cupertino CA KZFR Chico CA KAOS Olympia CA Town and Country Radio Show, New Zealand 'Nette Radio Voice of Vashon Vashon Island WA |
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People say... |
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a delightful indie singer/songwriter -Ola Teslenko, Ola’s News, Sacramento wonderful energy . . . Music like that makes you think about moving to Stockton! -Carol Queen, MC, Bi & For the People, celebrating the opening of the SF LGBT Community Center a songwriter’s songwriter -Christy Claxton, TX songwriter, by way of DivaBands founder Roberta Donnay I had this dream last night that you and Melissa Etheridge were giving this huge stadium size concert in my parents’ back yard. It was a good show! –Rachel Pinsky, San Francisco (more chatter on the quotes page...) |
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