Laurie Geltman

Sketching on a appreciate of both rock and roll & move and more acoustic music, singer/songwriter Laurie Geltman provides garnered a good following for the music-savvy Boston scene. The Baltimore-born Geltman started playing electric guitar and composing her first tracks at age seven. Over time, she continued to build up her skill being a guitarist, inspired by players such as for example Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, and Jimmy Web page. She signed up for college to review film and artwork history but still left to try out music for the roads of Paris. Time for Boston, Geltman went to the Berklee University of Music, graduating being a film rating major (she’d later have got a tune of hers found in an independent film starring Kay Hanley of Characters to Cleo). In 1992, she self-released a cassette-only assortment of recordings entitled Departure, which produced many Boston music critics’ TOP lists. She was a semi-finalist in radio train station WBCN’s well-known, annual fight of the rings in 1997 and discovered time release a No Power Steering, including support vocals by Patty Griffin. The recording was re-released through Eastern Front side Records a 12 months later and she’d be nominated for a number of Boston music honours, aswell as landing an area on that year’s Lilith Good tour. In 1999, Geltman embarked on the solo tour from the Western Coastline (including Alaska), starting for functions like Catie Curtis and Cheryl Wheeler. MOVIES, a live, acoustic recording recorded with several friends was released in 2002.