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Laura Cortese

Drum and Chop Indie-pop!

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New Video for "Bad Year"


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Singer, songwriter and fiddler, Laura Cortese lights up the stage with a radiating smile, dazzling musicianship and uninhibited delight. She deftly strums, plucks and chops her fiddle behind her raw and rootsy voice. Forgoing the guitar and bass of the traditional rock band, Cortese tours nationally with indie rock/folk drummer Neil Cleary (Annie Hayden, The Essex Green, Erin McKeown). On her latest release, Even the Lost Creek (February 2006), she couples the groove and polish of urban music with universal themes of the old world.

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Member Since: 10/21/2005
Band Website: lauracortese.com
Band Members: Laura Cortese: vocals and fiddle
Neil Cleary: drums and guitar
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Check out this video of me playing with Michael Franti & Spearhead at the Winnipeg Folk Festival:

New Videos! This is at The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI. The song is called "Cry."
"Bad Year"
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My Blog

Making of Bad Year video

How To Make A Video 101:First you grow up playing celtic fiddle. Then you move to boston forcollege. Then you start a crazy ceilidh dance event with your childhoodfriend/fiddler hanneke cassel. That b...
Posted by Laura Cortese on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:24:00 PST

Crazy Cortese's May Residency Tour

This month I will drive over 2,000 miles back and forth between NewYork and Cambridge. Every week in May Neil Cleary and I are playing atArlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side, Pete's Candy store in ...
Posted by Laura Cortese on Thu, 03 May 2007 10:14:00 PST

the mechanical bull

Hey Y'all, and this time I really mean Y'ALL!!! We have had four shows so far on the "Even the Lost Creek" Record Release Tour. The best yet was definitely Rochester, NY at Milestones music room....
Posted by Laura Cortese on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:00:00 PST