Laura Gibson - free live performance

2/2 6 PM

Born in the small logging town of Coquille, Oregon, Laura Gibson started as an outsider to Portland's vibrant indie scene, performing solo acoustic shows in unusual venues like AIDS hospices and kindergartens. Her previous record, Beasts of Seasons, was split into two parts (Communion Songs and Funeral Songs), and its confidence and scope caught the ear of a wider audience. Since its release, Gibson has claimed a very special place in the world of modern folk music among critics, and, more importantly, in the hearts of sincere music lovers.

La Grande (pronounced in the way of the American West, without any hint of French inflection — "luh grand") is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon where Laura Gibson found inspiration while writing the songs that would become her new album of the same name.

Gibson describes La Grande as a place that "people usually pass through on their way to somewhere else, but which contains a certain gravity, a curious energy." She's done more than her own fair share of traveling, playing over 200 shows in North America, Europe and Asia since the release of the acclaimed Beasts of Seasons, and La Grande is, in part, an album about journeys and transitions.

http://www.myspace.com/lauragibson