Hi - I’m Laura

My Background

Music has always been a way I connect - to nature, to people, to story, and to God. It’s been a quiet throughline in my life, even in seasons when I wasn’t actively creating.

I wrote my first song when I was ten, and spent my teens and twenties arranging music and leading worship music. Songwriting was something I admired from a distance for a long time, and something I felt drawn to, but didn’t quite have the courage to fully step into until my thirties.

Starting later as a songwriter has been an invigorating, humbling, and grounding experience. I’m being shaped not just by learning how to write songs, but also by how open and generous the songwriting community has been, and by the steady encouragement of friends and family along the way.

Outside of music, I’ve always been drawn to story and understanding. My work in digital marketing and communication strategy reflects that and I get spend my days thinking about how people make meaning, and how stories are told. It’s work I genuinely love. But music has become a different kind of space for me in ways that feel slower, more personal, and less resolved.

My Music

My sound lives somewhere in the worlds of indie folk and alternative folk, usually I call it “melancholy hopeful folk.” Most of what I write comes from paying attention: to relationships, to quiet questions and feelings, and to the presence of Love in places that don’t always feel obvious.

I’m especially drawn to the in-between spaces: when something is changing but hasn’t fully changed yet, when love feels both steady and uncertain at the same time. That tension tends to shape my songs.

Some of the artist I admire, who have influenced my sound, are artists like Sara Groves, Phoebe Bridgers, The Swell Season, Covenhoven, Gregory Alan Isakov, Noah Gundersen, Joshua Burnside, Sandra McCracken, Dan Fogelberg, San Fermin, and Rose Cousins - with some additional influences from Appalachian, Irish, and Scottish music. I’m drawn to music that feels spacious, honest, and a little melancholic. I like to steep in songs and sounds that don’t rush to resolve.

A lot of my inspiration comes from nature and landscapes, especially the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the Pacific Northwest, and the Rocky Mountains; places that feel still, expansive, and slightly wild. That same feeling is what I’m usually trying to create: songs that help people feel less alone, more reflective, and quietly connected to something deeper.