“Enter through the stage door. Cafe-style seating on stage. hors d’oeuvres provided and an open bar. Each concert is an intimate, magical evening!”

“Her music is spare yet striking. Her voice is ripe, supple, strong, and impossible to ignore.” - Billboard

Since the early 1990s Laura Love has been driving audiences wild at music festivals and respected venues the world over. It is easy to see why: Laura is not only an astonishing vocalist and inventive songwriter, she is a sparkling performer with an irrepressible sense of fun and a unique style that is, well…unique. She is an African-American funk bassist with a deep love of folk, Americana, bluegrass, R&B, country, blues and jazz. She loves James Brown almost as much as she loves Jimmy Martin. She grew up listening to Sly and The Family Stone and Loretta Lynn. Her early musical ears were equally influenced by The Jackson Five and The Weavers. Are you getting the picture? We think so.

Laura is accompanied by the master of country/blues slide and picked guitar, Orville Johnson. Orville is a well respected multi-instrumentalist and soulful vocalist and has had a long career playing with a variety of great partners such as Mark Graham, John Cephas, Woody Mann, Mike Auldridge, and Stacy Philips. He has appeared on Prairie Home Companion, Jay Leno's Tonight Show and was featured in the 1997 film, Georgia, with Mare Winningham. His recordings have been used in the soundtracks of PBS' Frontier House and the Peter Fonda film, The Wooly Boys, as well as the on the compilation CD, “Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar”.

Together, Laura and Orville are a powerhouse duo: two big vocals, exquisite guitar and funky bass. They perform Laura’s originals and a remarkable array of folk, country, spirituals, gospel and blues songs. Some of you might remember these two tearing down the house at Royce Hall as part of the Ash Grove’s 50th anniversary concert a couple years ago. Come help them do the same thing for this Stage Door Concert!