Recorded Live on Sunday, January 7, 2024 @ 2:00 pm from the Taper Auditorium located in Central Library.

Los Angeles Public Library, in collaboration with concert promoters Sid the Cat, present singer and songwriter Hand Habits.

"I'm aching to see you again / mistaken, beginning inside of the end," Meg Duffy sings at the start of "Something Wrong," the first song on their six-track new release, Sugar the Bruise. Everything that forms will un-form. Everything that comes together will disperse. Everything that lives will die. Every moment is over as it passes. Every end contains a beginning. Sugar the Bruise, out from Fat Possum Records on June 16, doesn't shy away from these truths. It dives into the heart of them.

In August 2021, nearly two years before Sugar the Bruise's creation, Duffy taught a month-long songwriting class through School of Song. They created a container for both new and experienced songwriters, designing prompts to help participants play with new approaches and forms. They re-discovered, with newfound clarity, the generative capacity of embracing the unknown and how essential collaboration and improvisation are for accessing the indescribable.

This LA Made program was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.