Flautist, singer and
composer Laura Sue, the Silver Nightingale has
captivated South Florida audiences with her
sensational solo silver flute. Silver Nightingale
performances combine fine classical flute technique
with Renaissance, rock, folk, blues, jazz, pop Celtic
and new acoustic influences. Laura Sue's music has a
magical quality that people describe as entrancing,
healing and heart-touching. Thousands of South Florida
residents have become Silver Nightingale
devotees at Laura Sue's numerous appearances, and she
has been favorably compared by her fans to Nestor
Torres, James Galway, Paul Horn, Ian Anderson and
Jean-Pierre Rampal.
In response to hundreds of requests, Laura Sue
released her first solo recording in the summer of
1997, a cassette of Music
for Healing and Meditation which benefits
Gold Coast Hospice. In July, 1999, she released a
remastered version of this recording on CD as
Sarabande - Solo Flute
Meditations. Within the first few months
of its release, Sarabande has received airplay
on Florida radio stations WLRN, WZTA, WMNF, WUFT, and
WFIT, internet radio program Womens Independent Radio
Show, and national radio show The Romantic
Hours, heard on over 100 commercial and public
radio stations from coast to coast.
Laura Sue has played in South Florida at
prestigious venues including Broward Center for the
Performing Arts, Vizcaya Palace and Gardens, Design
Center of the Americas, The Ivana (Ivana
Trump's yacht), Borders Books and Music, Museum of
Discovery and Science, Town Center at Boca Raton,
Bailey Hall, Wild Oats, Liberties Café, Peaches
Music, Spec's Music, and Florida Atlantic University;
and around the United States, from San Francisco to
Woodstock to New Orleans.
Laura Sue has accompanied noted musicians like jazz
piano great Marian McPartland, heavenly
vocalist/composer Dwain Briggs and New England Women's
Symphony founder flautist Kay Gardner (who has
performed Laura Sue's composition "Amelia"); and
studied with Paulo Moura, Bobby McFerrin, Barbara
London, Olatunji, and Nana Vasconcelos. Her
composition "Forsythia for Cynthia" appears with an
all-star lineup on the 1996 XS local music sampler CD,
and her recording credits
include albums by Stephan Mikés, Maxine
Feldman, Shana, Wurster, Teri Catlin, Luke Thomas and
Big Blue Sky. Her music also appears in Shana's new
BananaYoga DVD, and can be heard on LifeWorks'
phone system when placed on hold.
Laura Sue, the Silver Nightingale has
provided entertainment for business and professional
groups including American Stock Exchange, Fort
Lauderdale International Film Festival, Whitbread
Round the World Race, American Independent Commercial
Producers and Commission on the Status of Women; at
events like Taste of the Nation, New River Fest,
Hollywood's Artwalk, Whole Life Expo, Clematis
Backstage, Delray Affair, World AIDS Day, Earth Day,
Riverwalk Sunday Jazz Brunch, South
Florida Folk Festival and Songwriters in the Round
Showcase; and for countless private social and
spiritual occasions.
Laura Sue is devoted to community
service and is actively engaged in using music for
healing. She has performed at the Universal
Lightworkers Conference where Dr. Doreen Virtue,
Dr. Michael Mirdad and other internationally regarded
teachers and healers made presentations. She has also
provided music for workshops and lectures presented by
Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Gregg Braden,
Gerald Jampolsky and Hugh Prather.
Laura Sue has opened for Craig Chaquico, Judy
Collins, Meg Christian, Carla Ulbrich and Justin
Hayward (Moody Blues) among other notable
artists.
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