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Laura Veirs

Laura Veirs

Event Time Sun 19th Jun 2022 at 7:30pm-Sun 19th Jun 2022 at 11:00pm
Event Location The Deaf Institute, Manchester
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Age restrictions: 14+
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Laura Veirs

++ Rescheduled from 14 Oct 2021 to 19 June 2022, original tickets remain valid ++


Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs didn’t seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk, country, classical and pop music around the house and on the radio during her youth.

Attending Carleton College in rural Minnesota, Veirs latched onto feminist punk rock from the Pacific Northwest, eventually starting an all-female punk band called “Rair Kx!”. Laura studied geology and Mandarin Chinese. After college, she embraced older country and folk music. Her first foray into songwriting started with a geological expedition in China, where she served as translator. She was miserable and immersed herself into writing lyrics as a way of coping. 

Veirs is fascinated with the intersection of art and science and she explores that in her work.

She has released 11 albums and has toured extensively in her 25-year career. She has collaborated with Neko Case, kd lang, Sufjan Stevens, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists and many others. She’s also a podcaster (Midnight Lightning, about musician parents), an award-winning children’s book author (Libba, about folk musician Elizabeth Cotten), a mother and a songwriting teacher through Stanford University’s Continuing Education Program.

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The Deaf Institute
135 Grosvenor St, Manchester M1 7HE, UK