Laura Sullivan: What's New

Mystical America is named one of the top CDs of 2004 by Amy Lotsberg of Collected Sounds.

Please come visit me as I perform at the San Francisco Centre December 8th through the 22nd. Happy Holidays!

Mystical America charts at #28 on New Age Reporter. Thank you so much for your airplay and song requests.

I'm pleased to report that our CD release show with Gary Boggs at the Serramonte Center was great fun. Thanks to all of you who came out for the show! We performed together songs from my new release Mystical America and from Gary’s new release Motion. Our CDs were released at the FYE store in the Serramonte Center the night of the show with our in-store autograph signing.

My new CD Mystical America is now available at music retail stores nation-wide and at all major online music outlets.

I'm very excited that my new CD Mystical America had its advance digital release on ITUNES and is currently in their top 3 highest downloaded albums in New Age. Thank you so much for supporting independent music!

I will perform at a special concert sponsored by Whisperings Solo Piano Radio July 17th & 18th Featuring: Suzanne Ciani, Craig Casey, Steven Cravis, Michael Dulin, Janie Horton, Eric McCarl, David Nevue, and Laura Sullivan. The concert is at the Home of Solo Piano Publications' reviewer, Kathy Parsons. Kathy, thank you so much for opening your home to us! I'm delighted for the opportunity to play music in this comfortable and intimate setting together with these wonderful artists.

Johanna Pieterman of Orkney Design and I have begun collaborating about the cover art for my new album, Mystical America. We have some ideas about depicting a women representing the diversity of America on the cover; spiritual aspects of the album’s mystical places will be symbolically represented with four symbols: sage, a petroglyph, an Ogham letter and a wheel. These elements will be woven into the drawing and also drawn separately for inclusion in other parts of the album. Johanna will hand draw this work using colored pencil! The finished piece will be about 18 inches square. Johanna lives in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. She is famous for the work she has done of Stevie Nicks and album covers for Blackmore’s Night (Ritchie Blackmore’s band, formerly of Deep Purple). I'm honored to do this project with her.

My Producer, Chris Camozzi, and I are very busy in the studio recording my new album, Mystical America. We have been collaborating and I have been practicing as hard as I can for the last couple of months leading up to our studio dates. We in completely in sync on the direction we are headed musically with this album and I'm very excited about it. This is going to be a blast!

Joining us in the studio to record tracks for the album are Mary Pitchford on violin, Scott Fuller's orchestral strings, and Diane Grubbe on contemporary and wooden flute. Diane has some amazing flutes that will have a beautiful effect on “Totem’s Whisper” a song we are recording for the album that is about the Tongass Islands and sacred totem poles in Alaska. Her flute sounds like wind blowing through the Totem Poles.

The album will be recorded at Chris’s studio, Mosaic Music. Piano tracks will be recorded at Open Path Studio by Nelson Braxton, (yes, that’s Nelson Braxton of the The Braxton Brother’s!) He also contributed his piano recording techniques for my last release, Pianoscapes for Trails of North America.

Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America is now featured in a National CD Display Program at Barnes & Noble Stores titled “Body, Mind & Spirit”.

Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America is now available online and at retail stores nationwide.

Please come hear me play live daily at the world famous Top of the Mark this month for special holiday shows. Check the website for show times.

I'm excited to be included in a shoot as a featured artist for a TV Pilot “Music Across America”. This show exposes artists from various genres from all the US States. Each week will feature artists from a different state. I will be in the California show, of course. The shoot this month is at Squaw Creek Resort in Lake Tahoe.

The Executive Producer of the show is legendary jazz artist, Stanley Clarke! I will be performing a Hope for the Trees from my forthcoming album, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America. and there will be a live interview.

I'm really happy that we will be contributing a portion of the proceeds of the sales of my forthcoming CD, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, to the National Arbor Day Foundation. We will also be including tree seeds within the packaging of every CD. We planted some seeds and they have already sprouted. Hopefully, between these two efforts, we’ll start a small forest.

I played a fun live show this month at the Niebaum-Coppola Winery in the Napa Valley, owned by Francis-Ford Coppola. There is some amazing movie memorabilia there, and wow, what a beautiful place!