Rochester's Hannah Hammond makes her musical mark

Rochester's Hannah Hammond makes her musical mark

“Playing my songs in front of a crowd, small as it was, made me feel connected to people in a way I hadn’t before,” says 18-year-old Hannah Hammond, describing performing at the Café Steam open mic when she was 15. She says the experience helped her realize that “music was a passion and not just something to do for fun.” Since her first open mic performance, Hammond, from Stewartville, Minnesota, played her first gig when she was 17 at Pasquale’…