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Laura Siersema

Raised in Amherst, Virginia, I grew up listening to my parents sing in their folk music group, the Hon-o-lees, and in the church choir. From the time I was little, I was playing ukelele, guitar and piano, hearing music live, and performing. But I didn't know music was my life's purpose until I went away to college--by then our family had moved to Florida. During classes at University of Florida I wrote lyrics on napkins and, in-between classes, stole away to the auditorium to play the piano for hours. I even played piano for my nursing class graduation, which felt like the most natural thing in the world for me to do. For the obligatory year's worth of "med/surg" experience after graduation, I worked as a nurse on the ophthalmology unit at the teaching hospital at UF

Talon of the Blackwater

By Laura Siersema

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2008