Ascap Award Winning singer-songwriter's rollicking, high energy Modern Folk/Middle-eastern fire/Americana story songs about group home buddies, lost jobs, sudden deaths, ancient texts, notorious canals and long haul love affairs.

11 MP3 Songs in this album (38:09) !
Related styles: Folk: Modern Folk, World: Mediterranean, Type: Acoustic

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"great voice, great writing" WBAIFM-NY

"Whether it's an ode to the infamous Gowanus canal ('Union Street') or to the fabulous adventures of a developmentally disabled woman named 'Annie', Laura Wetzler paints portraits like nobody else." WORTV

"A rich, resonant voice weaving traditional, ethnic and contemporary threads into intelligent, literate songs." Richard Fox,WCUW

"An amazingly gifted singer, songwriter and ethnic folklorist." David Amram

"impressive poetic gifts-especially on 'Shadows' and 'Wonder'."-Bob Sherman, The New York Times/WFUV

ASCAP Award-winning singer-songwriter LAURA WETZLER tours in over 150 concerts and lectures each year, singing critically-acclaimed Contemporary Folk/Americana originals, World Jewish roots music in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, and the great classics of American songwriting.

Laura's debut CD of original songs, Songwriter's Notebook receives airplay on over 300 radio stations around the world and has garnered great reviews for both her writing and her voice, which according to music critic Seth Rogovoy of WAMC Public Radio "grabs a listener and won't let go". She was #1 Featured Artist on Crosstracks; Airwaves Top 10:The Phoenix; MusicMatch mp3 Top 100; and Top New Artist at WPCR. In addition to her Songwriter's Notebook tour she has created and performs in more than 20 different 'tribute' concerts.

The restless daughter of a truck driver and a choir director, Laura seemed destined to hit the road singing. As a kid, she was alternately wailing old Beatles and Motown into a spoon mic, singing in her mother's choir and helping to select and time cuts for a Sunday morning Jewish music folk show mom hosted on a local radio station.

Teaching herself to play her $14 guitar by singing her way through Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins songbooks, Laura counts Billie Holiday, folk ballads, Bessie Smith, sacred chant, Odetta, Carole King, Seeger, and Shawn Colvin among her diverse musical influences. She began singing professionally at age 15, earned a full scholarship and vocal music degree, and became a protege of Master Ladino(Judeo-Spanish) singer Joe Elias.

Laura continued to learn her craft at a hundred NYC café's, colleges, community centers, synagogues, concert halls and street festivals, sometimes sharing her music for civil rights and anti-censorship causes. Although her career has been focused on live concerts, Laura's indie single, 'Jesse Helms Has Made A Radical Out of Me' received nationwide airplay, becoming sound track for the film, State of the Art: Art of the State, an anti-censorship documentary screened on PBS and at the Whitney Museum.

Today, Singout! Magazine's Vic Heyman calls Laura "a road warrior...who can belt out a song with the best singers on the circuit". She has appeared with such artists as Disappear Fear, Richie Havens, The Klezmatics, Odetta, Ferron, David Amram, Vance Gilbert, Laurie Anderson and many others. She is featured on The Best of American Independent Music Compilation Mp3CD from MusicMatch, Crossroads Magazine Choice Acoustic CD, Outloud and on the forthcoming Seeds of Peace CD with folk legend Pete Seeger.

"Laura is one of the very best." Pete Seeger