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“We should start a band.”

Jill Andrews is nursing her newborn daughter on the couch in her dear friend and collaborator, Peter Groenwald’s, studio. It is September and still too hot outside. Peter is mixing a song they wrote, one of dozens that came together curiously, almost on its own when they sat down to write it. Peter looks at Jill, a six week-old baby on one side of her body and guitar slung and still singing a bit on the other. For Peter, a father himself, the timing is unexpected, but nearly everything about their partnership has been. He plays the song back and listens for a minute.

“Absolutely,” he says. “We should start a band.”

With a treasury of thoughtful, tenderly written songs at their disposal, they already had. 

Hush Kids is a friendship with music. It began long before it had a name, when two beloved Nashville artists with impressive solo careers were put together by their publishers to write songs for other people; in time, they discovered they had been writing for themselves all along. Their earliest sessions revealed more than chemistry, they revealed kindredness, an innate understanding that allowed two very different people to write some of the most deeply personal music of their careers.

Incredible, instinctive vocal symmetry, captivating melodies, and intimate, intelligent lyrics speak to the years of tireless craftsmanship and well-earned successes by both artists respectively.

A gifted composer, producer, and musician, Peter has toured extensively and shared the stage with artists such as The Civil Wars, Andrew Belle, and Ruston Kelly. In 2020, he joined forces with Sean McConnell and Garrison Starr to release an EP as My Sister, My Brother. Never one to rest, Peter followed that up with an EP in early 2021 co written and co-produced  alongside production duo I WAS THE LION titled Come to Life.

Jill, a founding member of the alt/country favorite the everybodyfields, has performed alongside The Avett Brothers, The Secret Sisters, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors and secured television placements that include Grey’s Anatomy, This Is Us, and the theme song for SyFy’s beloved Wynona Earp. In 2020, she released her critically acclaimed album and accompanying book Thirties, and followed that up with a dark EP of songs from her back catalog called Vultures. 

Hush Kids’ 2018 self-titled debut journeys across the unexpected, the strangeness of love rather than the sweetness, the beauty of the world rather than the bullshit. Guided by writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Ian Fitchuk and joined by some of Nashville’s most sought-after musicians, the record paired the effortless, addictive pop sensibility of The Carpenters with the dusty, atmospheric, desert landscape of Robert Plant and Allison’s Kraus’s Americana classic, “Raising Sand.”

Despite the name, Hush Kids is not about quiet, it’s about stepping away from the wrong kind of noise to embrace the music. Hush Kids’ upcoming EP “Weatherman” is set to release in the fall of 2021.

-Shannon Lee Miller

What people are saying….

Pop Matters

“The new collaboration of Nashville-based musicians Jill Andrews and Peter Groenwald has resulted in their self-titled Hush Kids, a simply beautiful 10-song debut album that's my favorite of the year so far…” -Michael Bialas

Billboard

“Co-written with and produced by Ian Fitchuk, “Morning is Made” is a gently building folk song that finds its foundation in the delicate interplay between the two artists’ vocals.”

Under the Radar

"“Weatherman” is a gorgeous crystalline love song from the pair. Accompanied by only acoustic guitars and some watery keys and percussion, Groenwald and Andrews’ voices interlock in flawless harmony, delivering an instrumentally slight but lyrically cutting offering. The pair search for beauty in hard times, ultimately finding the hope they need within their loved ones一" -Caleb Campbell