w/ Anis Mojgani & Encouragement Friendship Band
Laura Gibson is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and producer, born and raised in the small Oregon logging town of Coquille. Her most recent album Goners (Barsuk/City Slang) was praised by NPR as “a gripping collection of songs about accountability and grief.” The Fader called it, "so incessantly beautiful that one cannot help but want to gently crack it open to get to its beating core.” The New York Times described her music as, “longing and instinct, and whether they can ever converge.”
Both literary and raw, with a love of traditional folk music and a bent toward experimentation, Gibson has performed across four continents and had the distinct honor of playing the very first (and 200th) NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Between albums, she earned an MFA in fiction writing from Hunter College, completing her thesis in the back of a tour van. She's an enthusiastic collaborator in the Portland community with major arts organizations as well as her indie rock peers. She written songs for theatre and film, scored the award-winning Timber Wars Podcast and has lent her voice to many beloved bands. She is currently working on both a book and a new album.
At this very special show at Mississippi Studios, her first since before the pandemic, Laura will be sharing brand new (perhaps slightly wobbly) songs as well as old favorites. She will also debut a new project with Rachel Blumberg called Encouragement Friendship Band and will collaborate onstage with Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani.
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