bio

Sarah Morris has a habit of missing the forest. The Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter’s endearingly honest, expertly penned songs are love letters to the details of the trees, the rainy day ache in her sunlit voice granting audiences permission to escape the big picture and melt into stories at once hauntingly familiar and uniquely her own.

A graduate of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Sarah’s career, like her songs, has been full of delicious details. She’s had the opportunity to share stages with greats like JD Souther, Suzy Bogguss, and Teddy Thompson. Ordinary Things (2015)and Hearts in Need of Repair (2017), recorded with band mates Thomas Nordlund and Andrew Foreman, earned international airplay and considerable critical acclaim, reaching notable positions on both the Americana Music Association and Euro Americana charts. In 2016, Sarah was a top four finalist in the NewSong Music Contest at Lincoln Center in New York City, 2nd place winner of the Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC, and an Americana semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition, going on to win the Kerrville New Folk Competition in 2018. Whether solo, backed by her long-time band The Sometimes Guys, or as half of duo The Home Fires, her playful-hearted presence is both captivating and contagious. As songwriter, lover, mother, and witness, Sarah counts and celebrates the trees that make up the forests of all of our stories, names them worthy of our attention, and invites us all to get just a little bit lost.

Sarah released her fifth album, All Mine, in late February, 2020.