“It’s like a combination of feeling like you’re in a dream and feeling like you’re finally living your dream,” Noah Kahan says of his arena-sized fame.
Patrick McCormack
The Beatles taught us about Liverpool, England and Abbey Road. Prince had Minneapolis. Bruce Springsteen rooted us in New Jersey. For singer-songwriter Noah Kahan, it’s all about Vermont and New England.
His 2022 gold-certified album Stick Season has hooks and chord progressions reminiscent of the pop-folk songs of artists like Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers, with lyrics like, “I was raised on a little light.” With a virality fueled by TikTok and his Gen Z fan base — who call themselves “Busyheads” in reference to his first studio album — Kahan has shot to arena-sized fame, performing on Saturday Night Live, selling out most of his 2024 tour and landing a best new artist Grammy nomination this year.
“It’s like a combination of feeling like you’re in a dream and feeling like you’re finally living your dream,” he says.
His latest release is an iteration of Stick Season that reimagines the songs with collaborators he’s met along the way: Brandi Carlile, Gregory Alan Isakov and Post Malone are among them. “It’s one final — I promise final — kind of goodbye to the Stick Season era, which I have just loved living in and never want to leave.”
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On Stick Season and transitions
“Stick season” is a term that I heard older neighbors in Vermont and New Hampshire use to describe the time of year between late October and the first snow. So all the leaves have gone, foliage is over in Vermont, which is obviously a beautiful time, and it’s kind of this…
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