Laura Gibson Concert

LAURA GIBSON CONCERT at Brewery Pottery (inside the gallery!)

Laura Gibson is an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer, born and raised in the small Oregon logging town of Coquille. Gibson began performing songs for patients at hospice homes prior to writing her first extended play and releasing her debut album, If You Come to Greet Me in 2006. She collaborated with The Decemberists's drummer Rachel Blumberg on the release, as well as on her second album, Beasts of Seasons.

 

Her seventh, and most recent album Goners is a meditation on grief and empathy which The Fader described as, "so incessantly beautiful that one cannot help but want to gently crack it open to get to its beating core.” 

 

Both literary and raw, with a love of traditional folk music and a bent toward experimentation, Gibson has toured four continents and had the distinct honor of performing the very first NPR Tiny Desk Concerts in 2008. The concept for the Tiny Desk Concerts was conceived following one of her concerts that NPR music journalists Stephen Thompson and Bob Boilen attended. When they were unable to hear her performance over the noise of the crowd, Boilen and Gibson arranged for her to perform at his desk at the NPR office, and it subsequently evolved into a recurring feature. She would later reappear again at the 200th Tiny Desk Concert. 

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