Laurel Brauns bio

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Laurel Brauns (www.laurelbrauns.com) is a singer/songwriter whose work ranges from indie americana to quiet rock. After high school, she lived in Ireland, busking on the street and joining sessions in pubs. After graduating from college in Portland, Oregon, she recorded her first album, Swimming, which subsequently sold 2,000 copies and received reviews in Performing Songwriter and other national media outlets. Her second release, Periphery, was recorded and co-produced by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Studios (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists). Jeff Saltzman (producer Stephen Malkmus) mastered the album and hailed it as “elegantly arranged modern/folk pop” and “one of the strongest efforts I've worked on this past year.” Laurel tours constantly. The Source wrote of her that "it's somewhere out there that she meets her characters and gives you a peak into their stories, she puts you right out there in the cornfield under the wide-open skies...". At the moment, Laurel concentrates her touring efforts in the Pacific Northwest and New England and resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is currently working with a gothic folk band named The Scarlet Letters with her next album scheduled to be released in the fall of 2005.