Laura Doherty
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Folk-pop music for kids!
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><b><i>“Laura Doherty is one of the best things of the decade to happen to Chicago </i></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><b><i>kids” - Judy Sutton Taylor, Time Out Chicago</i></b><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Laura Doherty is a nationally touring children's recording artist and award-winning producer with </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">an ear for a catchy melody. She acoustically rocks your kid’s world with her breezy folk-pop </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">tunes for the whole family! Her award-winning CD "Kids in the City" (2009) pays tribute to her </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">kinda town...Chicago, and has hit the XM radio airwaves and garnered great reviews in the </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">press. Using the Windy City as her inspiration, Doherty writes about the El Train, skyscrapers, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">the Farmer’s Market, the zoo, and all the wonders of the city, as seen through a child’s eyes. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Laura’s version of “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” aired on the popular British TV show </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><b><i>Dancing on Ice</i></b> in 2010.<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Doherty has recorded on several children’s CDs, including: Parent’s Choice award-winning </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">“Songs for Wiggleworms” released in 1999. In 2005 she co-produced and performed on the </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">follow-up CD “Wiggleworms Love You”, also a Parent’s Choice Award winner, both released on </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><i>Bloodshot Records</i>. In 2008, Doherty performed vocals on several songs written by nationally-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">known kids artist Ralph Covert (of <b>Ralph’s World)</b>, for <b><i>Walt Disney Co</i></b><i>.</i>, and in 2010 began </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">co-producing traditional children’s songs for <b><i>Disney English</i></b>, a division that distributes </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">educational CDs worldwide. In 2011, Laura began recording vocals for<i> Publications </i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><i>International’s</i> “Record-a-Song” books, which includes<b><i> Dora the Explorer</i></b> and <b><i>Thomas the </i></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><b><i>Train</i></b> songs, and will be distributed nationally in July 2011.<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Laura found a comfy place in the acoustic-folk world early on, picking up the guitar at age 16. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Originally from Westchester, NY, Laura came to Chicago after college and soon discovered the </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><b>Old Town School of Folk Music</b>, where folk legends like Roger McGuinn and John Prine </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">honed their guitar styles. For over a decade, Laura was the the director and teacher in Old Town </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">School’s Wiggleworms program. In 2009 she took a daring leap and decided to go full-time with </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">kids music, showing an intense passion for bringing joy in the world via sweet folk-inspired </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">songs.<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Laura is no stranger to catchy, melodic songwriting for the folk-pop listener too. She previously </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">released 3 recordings (one solo and two with her local </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">Chicago band Sweet Hello). The inspiration for her first </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">children’s song came while riding the El train. The words </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">came easily and by the time she got downtown, her first </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial">kid’s song “El Train” was born!<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial"><b>Awards and accolades for “Kids in the City”:</b><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial">2009 GOLD Parent’s Choice Award<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial">2009 GOLD Nappa Award<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial">Time Out NY Kids Magazine - rated a top 10 kids CD of 2009</p>
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