Laurie

About me:

*Creative Loafing - "Champion of the Scene - Don & Laurie" Critic's Pick Award 2010

*Charlotte Folk Society - April 2010 - "Number One Music Fan" by Rick Spreitzer

*Uptown Magazine - "Behind the Curtain at the Neighborhood Theatre"

*Essential Charlotte - "The People & Places That Make Us Unique"

*Gaston Alive! Magazine - "Spotlight on...Laurie..." Article

*Creative Loafing - "Best Supporter of Local Music" Critic's Pick Award

*Creative Loafing - "Scene&Heard - Thoughts on Charlotte's music scene"

*WSGE 91.7FM In-Studio Guest Interview w/Randy Walker-Gaston County Roundtable

*Crown Town Showdown performance judge

*Charlotte Music Awards - Finalist for "Best Promoter" and Winner for "Best Artist Website" (www.rickspreitzer.com)

*Creative Loafing - "Laurie K*'s Top Ten For Play" feature column

*Southeast Performer Magazine - "Promoter Profile" Article

*Charlotte Uptown Magazine - "The First Couple of Charlotte Music" feature article

*skirt! Magazine" - #1 Fan" article

*Creative Loafing - "On the scene - How the local landscape has changed over two decades"

*106.5 The End - In-Studio Guest Interview on "90 Minutes w/Divakar"

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*Member of the Tosco Music Party Advisory Board and Volunteer since 2000.
*Web Designer: Tosco Music Party, Rick Spreitzer, Malcolm Holcombe, Mike Orlando, Mike Strauss, The Final Gift Film

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I have a "word" in Kim Richey's music video for the lovely "Wreck Your Wheels" !
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"You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Each encounter that becomes a friendship turns into a lifeline. One can never have too many, only too many to properly take care of." -Rod McKuen

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"Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder.
Help someone's soul heal.
Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
--Rumi

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"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith

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""Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ~ "Closing Time" by Supersonic ~

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Magic
by Shel Silverstein

"Sandra's seen a leprechaun
Eddie touched a troll
Laurie danced with witches once
Charlie found some goblins' gold
Donald heard a mermaid sing
Susy spied an elf
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself"

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"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress." ~ William Shakespeare

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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." ~Horace

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"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul." ~Shneur Zalman

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"Native Americans describe spirituality as having a 'moist heart,' perhaps because native wisdom knows the soil of the human heart is necessarily watered with tears, and that tears keep the ground soft. From such ground new life is born." ~Maria Harris in Dance of the Spirit.

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"Sometimes the wind whispers and sometimes it howls" ~Mary Youngblood

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"The whole point of living is to believe the best is yet to come" ~Peter Ustinov

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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary." ~Martin Luther

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"Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." ~John Wesley

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"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Thurman Whitman

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"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ~Francois Muriac

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.~Thornton Wilder

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"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." African Proverb

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