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Laura Pellegrino has been playing music professionally for over 10 years and in so many cities, it boggles the mind to merely contemplate her credit report. L.A., New Orleans, Baltimore, Austin, and most recently, Buenos Aires, Argentina, are just a few of the cities Laura has called home. Laura stumbled onto the blues at 17, thanks to a locally syndicated show on her hometown radio station, KMOD, in Tulsa, OK which was promoting an upcoming show for the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Laura spent 4 years in that music-loving city playing full-time in all of its most prestigious clubs (La Zona Rosa, Continental Club, and Antone's Home of the Blues, to name just a few) alongside many of its most well-known players. Two consecutive years she was invited to play the SXSW music conference. And although not a native Austinite (who really is these days anyway?), she will tell you it is the town that truly gave her life for it was there that she cut her teeth, playing live 5 and 6 nights a week alongside many of Austin's heaviest hitters. Encompassing a scene ripe with Blues, Rock, Rockabilly, Country, Soul, and Funk, as well as heavy songwriter ethic, the Austin music scene conspired to instill in Laura a strong affinity towards roots-based music, quality songwriting, screaming guitar, XXX salsa, Tex-Mex and Tx. barbecue. And although Laura's songwriting is uniquely her own, and not entirely the domain of Austin, Tx. it is inherently infused with much of the same sensibilities. Currently Laura is making her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she obsessively dances Argentine Tango (Really!).
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