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I was born in Farmville and raised in Amherst County, Virginia and grew up listening to my parents perform in their own folk music group, the Hon-o-lees. They had me singing and playing ukelele, guitar and piano from the time I was small. Though I went away to college to become a nurse, I never stopped playing piano--in fact it was during a class at UF that I wrote my first lyrics on a napkin and then made songs of them.Finding my own voice has been my passion all along, though it has taken distance and digging and time and much experimenting to hear that voice and become comfortable performing. What expressions began on the piano or as phrases in my journal became a need to go back to school to immerse myself in music, to study classical voice for the first time, to work through what petrified me , to discover that I was a poet, too. I graduated from Berklee College of Music, I have been a soloist in churches, I have studied voice with the internationally known soprano Phyllis Curtin, I have been the music director and accompanist for musical theatre productions and school choruses and played with a small orchestra, my poetry has been published nationally. As a singer/songwriter I have had the wonderful opportunities of opening for John Gorka, Connie Kaldor, Dana Cooper, David Roth, Bernice Lewis and Cheryl Wheeler. when I left loss, my first album, was in the making all my life. Love Flows Like the Blood of a River is a continuation of my journey as a creative artist, of the ability to hear and see what bridges us to the invisible, what connects and ever so slightly distances us all. It is the patience to wait for what appears. To have had the collaboration of such great musicians as Eugene Friesen, Steve Wilkes and Doug Hammer, responding in their own ways to my songs, immeasurably broadened this musical experience for me and for the album. I am very proud to present it to you.-Laura Siersema |
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| Venues Played | Laura has performed in venues too numerous to list on this page. You may, however, see them listed in a separate window. |
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| Performances | With producer/sound engineer, Jay Hovnanian, and several other tremendous musicians, I am back in the studio recording my next album. Can't wait for you to hear it! All the best to everyone dropping in, Laura |
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| Booking | Vault of the Valley Music Laura Siersema 27 Abbott Street Greenfield, MA 01301 Telephone: (413)-772-8830 laura@laurasiersema.com |
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| Proud member of COOP Concerts, The Franklin County Musicians Cooperative http://www.coopconcerts.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
