Musician Penny Hanna performs throughout the San Francisco Bay area as a singer, bassist, and/or reed player with numerous groups including the Matisse Freimark Band, Jazz Birds, The Musician’s Warehouse Big Band, Red Malone's Esquire Big Band, The Scott Harris Big Band, the Young at Heart Project, Esther’s Klezmer Band, Velzoe and the Upbeats, and as a viola da gambist with The Antiquarian Funks and the California Gamba Consort.

As a writer and performer in Austin Texas, Ms. Hanna won first place in the 1985 Austin Music Umbrella Songwriters Competition, and was a featured performer on KUT’s Live Set, and a finalist in the 1985 New York Songwriters Showcase and Austin Chronicle Musicians Poll. She was double finalist and voted Best Female Vocalist in the 1988 Austin Music Umbrella Songwriters Competition.

Her recording credits include an Early Music LP for 1750 Arch Records (Dufay - Fifteen Songs), the title song to the cult film Hollywood Boulevard (Miracle Pictures), numerous CDs and LPs and EPs with Dan Del Santo’s Professors of Pleasure (Earthworks, Flying Fish) and three albums of her own songs in 1986, 1987, and 1988 (Organic Software, Cruel Lottery, Often Running). Ms. Hanna’s most recent recording is on the Jazz Society of Santa Cruz County compellation CD, and her arranging credits include works for Jazz Birds, the California Gamba Consort, and Sex Chordae Consort of Viols.