Loretta Hagen

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Loretta Hagen is a New Jersey-based singer-songwriter, whose musical career spans two decades. Weaving folk, country, rock and blues, she writes songs with strong, catchy melodies and passionate poignant lyrics, and delivers them with her rich alto voice. Says WFUV’s John Platt: “She writes songs that sound like they come from the Heartland, but they also really come from the heart.”Hagen has shared the stage with Roger McGuinn, Steve Forbert, John Gorka, Jonathan Edwards, to name a few, as well as her own headlined shows and performed in many concert venues and festivals such asMusic At The Mission, Outpost In The Burbs, The Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, Listen Live Music, Borderline Folk Music Club, FMSHNY Hard Luck Cafe', Art Barn Songwrites Series, Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club, Bluebird Café, Musikfest, SS Cape May, and New Jersey Folk Festival. Following her critically acclaimed CD “Something More”, co produced by Pat McInerney (Nanci Griffith), Loretta released “Sundown Till Dawn”, a CD that garners rave reviews and radio play across the country. Her upcoming CD "Mud and Stone" will be released Feb.19, 2012!  www.LorettaHagen.com

 "Loretta Hagen, one of West Milford's own, writes and sings some of the most incredible music you will hear. She is a talent not to be missed." Linda Hancharick Smith ~West Milford Messenger