I’ve long championed Laura Veirs, and at her Mercury show I even met Sufjan! So she can do no wrong in my book.
Laura posted an interesting story on Nonesuch’s blog.
About a year and a half ago during a tour through France, a man named Patrice introduced himself after a show. He told me he was teaching some of my songs to his middle school music class. “Wow, I’d love to hear a recording,” I told him. A few months later, back in Seattle, I received a package with their renditions of “Rapture” and “The Cloud Room”. Forty-five pure, young, French-accented voices piped through my speakers, and I sat there dumbstruck. Accompanied by cello on the first song and a rock band on the second, this mysterious children’s choir gave me the surprising gift of hearing my songs in a whole new light. I wrote them a letter thanking them for the honor, and they replied with a plan to do a full concert of my songs the following Spring…
So in April, Laura headed to Cologne to watch a young French choir perform her songs. Langley for the folk-minded.
Here, from the performance, is a recording of “two adorable 11-year old girls who also played double recorder solos.”
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That is really good. Are you gonna make any others available for download?
That download is from Nonesuch. I wish I could hear the whole thing!
Laura does the music for the independent film: “We go Way Back.”
It’s a pretty good film, sprinkled with music by Decembrist/Colin Melloy, Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger) and some other unheard of Seattle bands.
I found a few more here.
http://lauraveirs.com/laura/listen_content.html
The links are at the bottom of the page under “Other”.
Laura Veirs is incredibly ugly. She looks like some granola eatin’, armpit hair growin’, tree huggin’, meteorite fuckin’ hippie who works at Whole Foods. Her music sucks too. Writing songs about geology is gay.
I grabbed the children’s version of “Rapture” a while back and LOVE it.
Laura Veirs is one person that I would agree to marry without ever meeting her.
that is so cute
i like her
Love. Her. ♥
Now *that’s* cool.
Laura Viers and French schoolchildren! Two great tastes that taste great together!
Thanks for the link up.
I write songs from time to time and I’d be so delighted if a children’s choir would sing some of them. Tat’s the greatest pleasure ever.