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February 2008 Laura is recording a new album titled Coming Home which will be released October 2008. This album features songs that Laura has enjoyed her entire life. January 2008 Feast of Joy and Love was picked as a favorite CD of 2007 by Kathy Parsons. You can check out her list here. Thank you Kathy! Feast of Joy and Love was picked as #7 in the top 20 CDs of 2007 by Mike Debbage of Solo Piano Publications. You can check out her list here. Thank you Mike! December 2007 A new review of Feast of Joy and Love is now available in New Age Retailer. The review was written by host, Anne Williams, of the beloved radio program, Nightscapes.You can read the review here. Thank you to Anne and NAR for the lovely review. Nightscapes, we miss you! Check out a video of Laura playing “Hope for the Trees”, an excerpt from a television pilot “Music Across America” produced by Stanley Clarke and Kerry Gogan, now on YouTube. September 2007 Coastal Bend Autism Advocacy supports the needs of children, families and educators by raising awareness of autism and fundraising to bring additional services and materials needed to help aid the autistic child in reaching his/her potential. The First Year is a photographic, chronological record of CBAA's first year of existence, with a soundtrack by Laura. If you would like to view this moving “photo story” of a group of people who are truly giving, please visit this link: The First Year August 2007 New sheet music is now available. Check it out at Laura’s store. Our bundle of joy is growing!
July 2007 
A version of Laura’s new album will be released through Orange Music in Asia on July 26th, titled Joy and Love. Look for at at Sembawang Music Centre outlets.
Feast of Joy and Love is now available at North Star Music with an accompanying Joy and Love Orla Soy Candle scented with Wild Raspberry. Orla Soy Candles are handcrafted with 100% natural soy wax, made from soybean oil - a renewable, fully biodegradable resource. Enjoy a picnic lunch this summer and surprise your sweetheart with a Feast of Joy and Love CD and an accompanying Joy and Love candle.
New reviews are in of Feast of Joy & Love: RJ Lannan, New Age Reporter Click Here to Read Full Review May 2007 Laura’s music is now available at Earthsong Online. Earthsong is devoted to New Age, Acoustic Instrumental, Celtic, Native American and World Music and is a great resource for discovering beautiful music for you to relax with and enjoy. Visitors to Earthsong Online can listen to and purchase Laura’s new title Feast of Joy & Love as well as Mystical America and Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America.
April 2007 April 11th, a bundle of Joy and Love has arrived! Laura and Eric’s daughter, Shaela, is born. New reviews are in of Feast of Joy & Love: March 2007 Laura’s new CD, Feast of Joy & Love is released! February 2007 Johanna Pieterman is working on another beautiful album cover for Laura’s music! She created the original artwork for Mystical America and is now drawing the album cover for Feast of Joy and Love to be released in March 2006. Many thanks to Johanna for sharing her wonderful talent again! January 2007 Sheet music is now available for a selection of Laura’s music, including two songs from her forthcoming CD, Feast of Joy & Love. (To be released soon.) Thanks to all of you who have kept requests coming for sheet music! Coastal Bend Autism Advocacy is committed to improving the quality of education for autistic children. Please join Laura in support of their efforts. To learn more visit: www.coastalbendautismadvocacy.org. Laura’s music is now licensed through Muzak. Please visit them for your music on hold, and other music needs for your business. December 2006 Laura’s music is licensed through Triple Scoop Music. Videographers November 2006 The music for Laura’s new album, Feast of Joy & Love, is now complete! The new CD will be available early 2007. Piano, violin and saxophone for Feast of Joy & Love was recorded at Daimond Audio Productions in San Francisco, by David Austin. Celebrated San Francisco artists Anthony Blea (violin) and Noel Jewkes (saxophone) lend their talents to the album. Instrumentally the album consists of piano with ethereal vocals and other acoustic instruments. The songs are organized in the album as appetizers, first & second courses and dessert. The October 2006 Tune in to Troy University Public Radio the second week of October when Laura is the featured artist during their annual pledge drive. Here an interview with Laura and her music played throughout the programming. Please pledge in support of Public Radio and receive Laura’s CD Mystical America as a gift. May 2006 Tune in to hear Laura’s music featured every Wednesday evening 9pm PST for a half hour program on Whisperings Solos Piano Radio. February 2006 Laura’s music is included in a multimedia presentation on North America's bigge January 2006 Mystical America is on the list of Kathy Parson’s favorite CD’s of 2005. Check it out at SoloPianoPublications.com. Laura’s music can now be heard on Itunes Radio on the Classical station Whisperings. Tune in to hear the music of many fine pianists. You can also hear Laura on Whisperings now on Tivo. November 2005 Music from Mystical America is featured this month on Infrared Radio. Check out Infrared Radio’s Forum where you can discuss the songs, artists and anything else relating to the music or this station. October 2005 Mystical America is #1 on the Easy Listening Chart at ArtistLaunch. Laura’s music is featured in a new film “Valentines Day Special” starring Jon Polito. Watch for it at a film festival near you! September 2005 All sales of Laura’s releases on CDBaby are going to the Red Cross disaster relief fund for those in need after Hurricane Katrina. You can help by buying albums from one of the thousands of CDBaby artists who have chosen to donate all profits from the sale of our albums. Click here to listen and purchase artist CDs: Music to Benefit Red Cross. Thank you. August 2005 The Serpent Mound from Mystical America is named RadioFreeTunes Pick of the Week, contributed by Paul Carosi on Hidden Radio. Laura is a currently a featured artist on ArtistLaunch. ArtistLaunch began as a clearinghouse for internet broadcasters, but has quickly evolved into an Internet radio network which draws its material almost exclusively from independent artists, and has further developed into a promoter of the artists, providing them with Live Showcases, internet and real-world radio outlets, reviews and Artist Pages. Music from Mystical America will air this month on the internationally syndicated broadcast radio show The Artistlaunch Hour that is heard weekly on 30+ FM and AM stations in five countries. Remy Lambert is your host and master of ceremonies. Paul Carosi and Paul Laginess, along with Remy produce the show and Paul dos Santos is the man reaching out to real radio stations all over the world to help bring the great music of the Artistlaunch artists to an ever-increasing number of listeners. Laura’s tracks have also been added to Piano Forte Radio and Radio Free Classical on Radio Free Tunes. These stations feature outstanding piano compositions from independent pianists from around the world including Matt Bachrach, Joaquin Toboada, JavaMusik, Antonio Trigo, Kit Watkins, Josh Barlow, Stuart Mitchell, Grundman, Phil Taynor, Jennifer Haines, Loren DiGiori, Jonton, the 4th Dimensionsal Beings, Bradford Hoopes, Keyboard Corner, Justin Dale, Iris Litchfield, John Schalcosky and much more. July 2005 Laura’s music will soon is now available at music stores in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong distributed by Orange Music.
Check out Ambient Visions April 2005 interview with Laura. Laura now has her own show on Whisperings Solo Piano Radio every Wednesday at 4:30 PM PST. Tune in and listen at Live 365.com. Calling all Elves, Wizards, Rangers and Hobbits! Come hear Laura perform at the Middle Earth Festival, Celebrating The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien on Saturday April 9th.
Laura is composing a new album. More details coming soon. December 2004: Mystical America is named one of the top CDs of 2004 by Collected Sounds and Wind and Wire.
Performances are in the planning stages for tour dates in 2005. October 2004: July 2004:
Just announced: Laura’s albums will be featured in listening stations at Trans World stores nationwide this fall.
Johanna Pieterman completes artwork for album cover of Mystical America! The “four symbols” representing the mystical places for which the music was inspired are incorporated in the cover design.
June 2004:
Laura and her family put stickers on thousands of desert sage incense packages for inserts in her new CD release. Yes, these are really hand done by us! Incense provided by Incense Galore.
May 2004: Laura joins the Recording Academy.
April 2004:
Laura and Chris get busy in the studio recording Laura’s new album, Mystical America! Laura has been practicing very hard (about 5-6 hours a day!) for the last couple of months. We are complete in sync on the direction we are headed musically with this album and very excited about all the songs. This is going to be a blast! Joining us in the studio to record tracks for the album are Mary Pitchford on violin, Scott Fuller's orchestral strings, and Diane Grubbe on contemporary and wooden flute. Diane has some amazing flutes that will have a beautiful effect on “Totem’s Whisper” a song we are recording for the album that is about the Tongass Islands and sacred totem poles in Alaska. Her flute sounds like wind blowing through the Totem Poles.
The album will be recorded at Chris’s studio, Mosaic Music. Piano tracks will be recorded at Open Path Studio by Nelson Braxton, (yes, that’s Nelson Braxton of the famous The Braxton Brother’s!) He contributed his piano recording talents for Laura’s CD Pianoscapes for Trails of North America as well.
March 2004: Laura joins the “Whisperings” artist community of Pianists, founded by David Nevue. February 2004: Laura and Producer, Chris Camozzi begin advance production work for the recording of her new album this Spring. January 2004: Laura’s new CD debuts at #3 on Apple ITUNES. December 2003: NEW CD Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America is released. November 2003: Laura is filmed for a TV Pilot as a featured artist on “Music Across America”. This show features artists from various genres from all the US States. Each week will feature artists from a different state. Laura will be in the California show. The shoot is this month at Squaw Creek Resort in Lake Tahoe.
The Executive Producer of the show is legendary jazz artist, Stanley Clarke. Laura will be performing a song from her forthcoming album, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America on the show. The song title is Hope for the Trees. She will also be interviewed live for the show.
September 2003:
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music style is relaxing and soothing New Age/Classical. The songs consist of Laura’s own compositions along with 5 classical arrangements: a medley of Bach called "Bouquet of Bach", "Ala M'Ode to Joy", based on Bach's "Ode to Joy", "Waltzing with Beethoven" adapted from the Sonata Pathetique, "Albinoni's Secret Smile" which is an arrangement of the traditional Albinoni's Adagio with a surprise joyful key change, and a new arrangement of Greensleeves. The music is inspired by abundance, love and joy.
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about 18 inches square. Johanna lives in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. She is famous for the work she has done of Stevie Nicks and album covers for Blackmore’s Night (Ritchie Blackmore’s band, formerly of Deep Purple).
they have already sprouted. Hopefully we’ll start a small forest.
Laura performs at the 
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