Press Release Berea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Billboard Award recipient, Laurie Dameron from Boulder, Colorado to perform in home town.
Sunday October 2, 2011 2 pm
Berea Public Library
7 Berea Commons Berea Ohio 44017
more info: Fatima Perkins 216-398-1800
Sunday Oct 16, 2011 7:30 pm
House Concert
Cleveland Heights
more info: Sue Hannibal 216-514-7673 or
SueHannibal@gmail.com
Billboard Magazine award recipient, Laurie Dameron, has been playing the guitar for over 40 years and singing even longer. Between solo performances and performances with her band, Laurie D and the Blues Babes, she has performed for hundreds of venues in and out of Colorado over the past 20 years.
Laurie is versatile including selections from folk, instrumental, pop, country, blues, and jazz; a broad repertoire that allows her to please audiences of any age from children to seniors. Performances include 2006 and 2007Tribute to John Denver Benefit Concerts for Rocky Mountain National Park, Boulder Creek Festival, Denver Capital Hill People's Fair and A Taste of Colorado. Laurie had the honor of performing, among many songs, her “What Can I Do” (to help this planet…) at the 2008 Colorado Democratic Convention.
She is also an active environmentalist and is on the Chinook Clubhouse’s speaker's bureau speaking in public about mental health issues and often incorporates her environmental/social originals into her shows and talks about such issues to help educate audiences and raise awareness.
Laurie has composed, arranged and produced two CDs, “Utah Dream” (folk and blues) and “Looking Through the Blue” (jazz compositions). Her third and newest CD is a compilation of her favorite jazz standards and one original, the title cut, “I Can’t Wait to See You Again”. Dameron's song, “I Can't Wait to See You Again”, received an award of honorable mention for the 16th and 17th Annual Billboard Magazine World Song Contest.
Dameron is thrilled to be performing in her home town of Berea, Ohio. She was born in Berea in 1960 and lived there until 1974 when she moved to Boulder, Colorado. She attributes the reason for her being so passionate about environmental issues to have grown up near the Cuyahoga River which had caught on fire more that once in the sixties.
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“Dameron’s playing is a nice blend of old school Jazz Guitar, Rock n’ Roll double stops and swing blues. Her Guitar tone is crisp and smooth, giving her just enough bite for when she does her Bluesy Jazz thang…”
--Lyle Robinson, Jazz Guitar Life Magazine
“Based in Colorado, Dameron has an echoey acoustic sound on her guitar that is slightly reminiscent of Pat Metheny at times. Her music is soothing, danceable (but with subtle rhythms) and pleasing.”
--Scott Yanow, Los Angeles Jazz Scene
“Utah Dream is "a CD consisting of classic folk, jazz and blues underlined by the lilt of a voice so distinct that only one word could describe it: beautiful." -- Laurence Washington, Boulder Daily Camera music critic
"Delicate voice and confident guitar mark her work..." -- David Thomas, Denver Post
Laurie Dameron
Windchime Productions
PO 475 Niwot, CO 80544
303-449-3529
Windchimel@aol.com
www.LaurieDameron.com
www.MySpace.com/LaurieDameron
www.Facebook.com/LaurieDameronmusic
View Laurie Dameron's Solo EPK
www.reverbnation.com/lauried