Folk-oriented material became her new interest, and after graduating from college, she moved to Seattle and started appearing at open-mike events, eventually recording a demo in 1999 that earned her a spot at the city's annual Bumbershoot music festival. During a geology research trip to Northeast China, where she served as a translator, Veirs was often left alone to look after camp while her fellow students were out looking for specimens, and she wrote songs to keep herself occupied and sort out her feelings, with a cheap guitar for accompaniment. She developed a new interest in music at Carleton, and after friends introduced her to the challenging sounds of Bikini Kill and Sonic Youth, she joined an all-female punk rock band, Rair Kx. Veirs attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in geology and also studied Mandarin Chinese. As a youngster, she took piano lessons for a spell, but had only a casual interest in music, soaking up the folk, international, and classical sounds she heard at home as well as the pop music she listened to with her friends. Her parents were both educators her father was a professor in college-level physics and her mother taught at middle school. Laura Veirs was born on October 24, 1973, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 2020's My Echo was a subtly affecting set recorded as Veirs' marriage to Martine was coming to an end, and 2022's Found Light saw her taking on a new level of production and instrumental participation. lang on the 2016 project case/lang/veirs. She took a detour into collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. She first earned the attention of critics and discerning listeners with her third album, 2003's Troubled by the Fire (produced by her then-husband, Tucker Martine), which led to a major-label contract and a well-regarded follow-up, 2004's Carbon Glacier. With a gentle, expressive voice and guitar work that makes room for acoustic simplicity as well as a more angular electric attack, Veirs' songs are literate and emotionally intelligent, revealing even when she shows signs of caution, and her vocals are nuanced in their blend of sweetness and subtle bite. Singer and songwriter Laura Veirs blends the poetic sensibilities of contemporary folk music with the more ambitious melodic frameworks of indie rock.
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