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“Top 10 World Music Charts” Toronto & NYC
“Beautiful” Michael Eck, WAMC Performance Place
Kabbalah Music CD named in “1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die”
by Tom Moon NPR
“Great” Michael Stock, Public Radio WLRN, Miami
“Laura is one of the very best” Pete Seeger

Singer Songwriter Guitarist Laura Wetzler
Releases First Family CD, Again! Again! Songs for Kids
Available now at CDbaby.com and Amazon.com.

Nervy Girl Records celebrates the release of singer songwriter Laura Wetzler’s new album, Again! Again! Songs for Kids, with CDs and digital downloads now on sale at cdbaby.com and amazon.com. ASCAP Plus Award-winning singer, songwriter, & ethnic folklorist Laura Wetzler tours internationally in over 150 concerts each year, singing original story songs, worldbeat music, and the great classics of American song. Her previous CDs include Songwriter’s Notebook & Kabbalah Music.

Fun, catchy, wordplay adventure songs for kids of all ages
Laura’s original car bopping, rock, folk, country, Latin, Celtic, swing and pop tunes take off in flights of the imagination, and land with a gentle ballad. Again! Again! Songs for Kids is designed to inspire a love of words and to respect the intelligence of both kids and parents. The Laura Wetzler Trio, featuring Latin, African and Mid-east percussionist Richie Davis and bass player Wes Brown (of Black Rebels fame) will be touring in select family concerts in support of Again! Again! in 2010.

Laura Wetzler began singing professionally at the age of 15. She has composed for independent film, television, and her critically-acclaimed CDs, Songwriter's Notebook, and A World of Jewish Music, Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics, as well as the single, To Save A Life available from cdbaby.com and amazon.com, are heard on 750 radio stations around the world. Laura has shared stages with such artists as Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, The Klezmatics, and many others. Meticulous research goes into creating Laura’s 24 different concert/lecture programs featuring new originals and classic American music and Jewish music from around the world. For 7 years she has volunteered as Kulanu.org Coordinator for Uganda, leading safaris and working on 20 different humanitarian projects in Africa with the Abayudaya community. Laura is co-creator with Abayudaya Ugandan coffee farmer JJ Keki of the Delicious Peace fair trade organic coffee project, an interfaith sustainable development project for which she shares a Global Citizen Award from Tufts University.

Again! Again! Songs for Kids features lyrics about:

• living in a body (Poopa Doopa Doo Doo) • being yourself (A Boy Named Huckleberry) • exploring the world (That’s The Weirdest Story) • girl power (Miryam Capella) • and being a true friend (Ruby)

Quote:
“I wrote these songs for kids I love in my life. My goal was to make something more interesting than I was hearing in the children’s music world. I wanted songs that parents and grandparents could get into. When I was a kid, I learned every word to the songs I liked in musicals, old movies and on TV: Frank Loesser’s Hans Christian Anderson, the patter songs of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and especially the Beatles. I wanted to write lyrics that help kids have fun with the English language through playing with rhymes, set in melodies with strong hooks in the chorus for the little ones to sing, and interesting story verses for the older ones to get into. Without my realizing it when I wrote them, I guess all the songs affirm unconditional love.”

Again! Again! Songs for Kids was co-produced in NYC by Laura Wetzler and George Wurzbach. Laura performs all the voices and plays acoustic guitar, with multi-talented George Wurzbach covering keyboards and percussion, Jim Armenti playing mandolin and electric guitar, and Jim Matus and Jason Moses on electric guitar and fiddle. Cartoon images by Laura Wetzler and CD cover art by Annette Rubino-Buckley.

“An amazingly gifted singer, songwriter and ethnic folklorist.”
David Amram, composer
“Laura Wetzler’s extraordinary voice, great songwriting, solid scholarship, mastery of so many musical styles, fantastic audience rapport, and infectious love of learning make her an artist of the highest caliber.” Linda C. Jum, MetroWest

Contact: Maggie Sash media@laurawetzler.com
413 634 5617 www.laurawetzler.com For information on 24 different programs and downloadable press photos and images,
Visit www.laurawetzler.com