“There’s so much depth and passion and bravery in her work. She was authentic to the core.” --Sara Bareilles “We could build the dream with love.” –from Laura Nyro’s “Save the Country” It’s one of pop ...

In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California sunshine, with celebrity emcees like the Rolling ...

MUSICIAN LAURA NYRO: (Singing) Come on people, come on children. SIMON: She staggered crowds at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival when she was just 20 years old. But by the time she turned 25 she was ...

Scott Simon reminisces about the summer of 1968 through a song. Laura Nyro And The Summer Of 1968 SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We all have songs that bring memories. Fifty years ago, Laura Nyro wrote a song ...

Wainwright will interpret Laura Nyro’s songs inspired by Manhattan—in all the sweeping emotion, stirring poetry, and pioneering genre-defiance the city brought out in the infinitely ...

Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber are back with a bite. By Caitlin Lovinger Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk are among the artists who will appear as part of National Sawdust+. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer/producer Charlie Calello knew he was in the presence of something special when he began working on the landmark Eli and ...

1 Video: Betty Buckley Gets Ready for a Joe's Pub Return and Weighs In on CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL The band and the arrangements brought out the variety, verve, delicacy, and depth of the chosen pieces ...

Although Laura Nyro had some success during her too-short career, especially in the late 1960s and early '70s, she ranks among artists whose commercial fortunes have never quite matched their ...

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 352 pp., $25.95 Laura Nyro (née Laura Nigro) was an anomaly as a singer-songwriter in the late Sixties/early Seventies, the dawn of feminism’s rise. She wrote ...

Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in her London debut performance, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro. The songbook of this performance is taken from the soulful, vocally ...