Tory Hanna is a performer whose musical soul and character pours out whenever he stands in front of a microphone. A deeply charismatic and contagiously enthusiastic performer, Hanna is a huge part of the heart and soul of the Treaty’s live show, toggling expertly between guitar, mandolin, trumpet and vocals and bouncing around the stage like a turbo-charged rocker.

Influenced largely by American singer-songwriters and roots rockers such as Ben Harper, James Taylor, and Bradley Nowell, Tory leans on modern electro-indie song-writing such as Death Cab for Cutie and MGMT for lyric-driven and finely-articulated melodies. His first EP released in 2012, entitled Pondside, captured much of his electro-centric singer-songwriter stylings. In 2016, he released Learning To Share, drawing from a more stripped down live Americana-folk tradition in an ever-growing Western Massachusetts music scene, and the core of what The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow embodies. He has continued to release solo material throughout the life cycle of the Treaty, including the 2021 original “Decent Man” and a cover of country classic “Jolene.” In 2025, he released a series of singles with his project The Hell Yeah Boyz, consisting of Hanna and frequent Treaty collaborators, bassist Josh Chaplin and drummer Monte Arnstam.

Hanna’s wife, Susie, was the founder of the original Whiskey Treaty Festival which brought together musicians and local vendors in western Mass. in the early 2010’s and led to the formation of the full band in 2014. A long-time Berkshires resident, he and Susie now live with their two sons in southern Vermont.