Since 2007 I've performed at venues ranging from a tiny spirit store nestled amid medieval ruins north of Dublin to the main stage at the renowned Telluride Bluegrass Festival, where I've performed for over 10,000 festivarians in the Colorado mountains two years in a row. I chronicled much of 2008’s 30,000 miles of touring through photos, videos, and written entries, which can be found at www.laurameyer.net. After completing a marathon tour at last summer’s Rocky Mountain Folks Festival I retreated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I survived a winter without heat by writing more than a hundred songs and poems, which I'm ready to return to the road that inspired them, on Miles From Nowhere, out September 22, 2009. Tour starts in Cleveland September 25. See you soon.

Honors: Telluride Bluegrass Troubadour Competition (2007-2009), Winner of Great Waters Songwriting Contest (2008), Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Song Contest (2008-2009), Winner of the Radio Crystal Blue Airplay Vote (2008), Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition Finalist (2008), Recognized by BMI for Professional Songwriting and Vocal Performance (2007-2008), NEMO/Starbucks Music Makers Competition Finalist (2007), Mountain Stage NewSong Northeast Finalist (2007), and 4x recipient of the ASCAPlus Award.

Here's what people have said:

"It’s not often you find a 20-song CD. It’s rare to find a 20-song CD with not a bad one in the bunch. But it takes something extraordinary to leave the listener eagerly anticipating more, more, more. But Meyer has accomplished that on Miles From Nowhere, a musical travelogue so well-painted with intimate lyrics that you can picture New York, Los Angeles and “the stars above Telluride.”

- Craig Ostroff, Montgomery News (December 30, 2009)

"A stunning collection of folk rock inspired songs. The album has a reccurring theme of beautifully laid out nature-driven images. Tone shifts throughout, keeping songs fresh and enriched... a perfect addition to your playlist."

- Jeff Hinshaw, Bootleg Magazine (November 1, 2009)

"Laura Meyer sings to us from a place of authority that seemingly would belie her age. With her bluesy alterna-girl folk musings, Meyer takes us from the devastated landscape of 'Katrina, Katrina' to the mountains of Telluride to the urban metropolis of New York City in songs like 'Back in New York and 'Chelsea Hotel.'

- Emily Anderson, Athens Banner-Herald (October 15, 2009)

"Laura Meyer’s latest independent album is chock full of tough-minded vocals, insightful lyrics and gritty guitar that no doubt will keep her on the road for years to come. Meyer... sets the bar high on the album’s first few tracks, taking listeners on a musical journey of Bob Dylan-like balladry (“Katrina, Katrina”), old-time blues (“Miles From Nowhere”), rebellious punk scorn (“Used To Be”) and the flight of the imagination (“In the Clouds”). Gutsy stuff."

- Michael Swanger, Des Moines Cityview (October 1, 2009)

"Elegant singing and playing... a brilliant guitarist... a poetic lyricism that not many new people have. Often times it takes people decades - [Laura's] already there."

- Steve Traina, WCSB 89.3 Cleveland, OH (September 25, 2009)

"Laura Meyer's latest, Miles from Nowhere, serves as a travelogue... 'Between the Earth & the Sky' is a lush, tender ode, while 'Flying V' serves up some delicious gritty guitars."

- David Byrne, Pop Making Sense (September 23, 2009)

"A great performance... Conor Oberst mixed in with a hint of Lisa Hannigan and a dash of Robert Zimmerman."

- John Sanford, Live Podcast: Starving Artist Guide (September 20, 2009)

"Beams of adeptly and uniquely finger-picked guitar support walls of elegant, earthy vocals and through tall, open windows come remarkably poetic and relatable lyrics. These songs are country roads, rich with story and movement."

- Dan D'Ippolito, Jezebel Music (May 5, 2009)

"She made time stand still. It may have been her heavy-lidded eyes, or it may have been the shape of her voice, which carries a splash of the ache and want characteristic of jazz vocalists like Madeleine Peyroux. Her playing was detailed and articulate, filled with tiny pauses and tempo changes that helped her wring every drop of anticipation and longing out of her compositions. It's the electricity that made Meyer's set trenchant, gave it guts."

- Dan Barry, Hartford Advocate (April 22, 2009)

Visit www.laurameyer.net and www.myspace.com/laurameyermusic for lyrics, tour dates, and other information.