Her musical journey started at the young age of 6, taking piano lessons with Legendary 80's music innovator Howard Jones. At 12 she was singing solo and went on to train operatically with Dr. Lynn Berg at Boise State University. She arrived in the Bay Area in 1998 in search of her dream of singing in a band. Lara began running her own blues jam at JJ’s Blues, and was featured in an inspiring article about blues jams in the September 2000 issue of the Blues Revue.
Lara fell in love with the blues without expecting to, "I didn't find the blues, the blues found me".
She has come a long way in a short time, earning loyal fans worldwide. The journey of Lara's blues band (The Lara Price Band) includes 4 great CD's, a tour across the U.S.A. and China, and many performances at world renowned festivals such as the Monterey Blues Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and The Greater Ozarks Blues Festival. Lara and her band have shared the bill with headliners Etta James, Little Richard, James Brown, Bobby Blue Bland, Leon Russell and many more. Lara also lent her talent to sing back-up with Triple Seven at the Fillmore in San Francisco, opening up for the pop band Smashmouth.
Lara fronts and leads several musical projects: Lara and Laura Unplugged, an acoustic duo; Velvet Plum, a popular bay area cover band that includes talent from San Jose's finest musicians; the Lara Price Band, a soulful rockin' blues band, and Lara's new project Lara Price & Yesterday's Band a wonderful mix of jazz, blues and R&B.
The Lara Price Band is currently featured on the Ruf Records international release "Blues Guitar Women" and has been written up as the "Hot Pick" on the CD by Guitar One Magazine.
Lara looks forward to promoting all 3 of her CD's and creating another new self produced CD exploring the soulful elements of gospel and a twist of R&B.
She’s an All American singer with a sultry stage presence and a voice that demands you're attention-smoky, lonely, sexy, and powerful. It's no wonder her music transcends the blues and crosses a line into music that is unequivocally superb.
"It’s all about the love of music and letting the crowd share in my passion."
Lara, THIS IS IT, I have ONE LAST favor to ask you about this, could I? Since, as you might’ve heard, my picture won at the monthly level & Round 1, I got nominated for the LongHair Hawtie of the Year Finals (!) that ends today 7pm New York Time (can you just get it done now?) and... - was hoping for those 6 votes from you ;)
Yeah, you do need to get accepted as a friend of www.MySpace.com/OfficialLongHairHawties before you can vote, but they’re nice girls (the hawtie folks), no harm whatsoever :)
PS. since it would be so cool to win ‘by a landslide’ of like 7-800+ votes OVER and ABOVE over #2 guy (who will give us run for the money, he’s done that before!) - so, an 'evil' thought - maybe you can tell your friends to vote too? ;) Could you ask around?
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
Come out to see Lara at the Torch Club in Sacramento on Oct 4. Ten bands, two stages, raffles, pasta cook-off, a silent auction of photos and other items, and hundreds of your closest blues-lovin' friends. 2:00-8:00 at 15th and I Sts, Sacramento. Proceeds to benefit Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation.
Looking for something to do this weekend ? At 8:00p.m. on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at The Pizza Factory (926 South Main St. in Salinas by Salinas High School) The Sledge Grits Band will be having the most energetic, insane concert we have ever had to end our summer tour and say thank you to Monterey County for helping us make our Wise Music Summer Tour a success ! 46 shows, appearances, and performances- It was a fun 3 months and thanks to you, we were voted Monterey Weekly’s “County’s Best Underage Band 2009”- Thank you. Salinas “Battle of the Bands ’09” winner DEMO will also be performing to open the show for us ! There will be an acoustic guitar that will be raffled off that has been donated by Wise Music- the proceeds geaux towards sponsoring, helping out us with food and gas, as we continue our journey being the next ones known out of Monterey County- John Steinbeck, Vanessa Hudgens, and now hopefully us !There will be 50 “Thank you for the last 1 1/2 years Monterey County !” gift bags to the first 50 people in the door. There is a $5 cover but, we will be giving $1 admission back for every person you bring over 25 people plus you and your family will get in FREE ! Our newest zydeco influenced composition “Open Road” has now finally been made complete thanks to our newest instrument sent to the band by Key of Z bo-Pah’s newest drum kit toy that was sent to her by HiShaker will be unveiled.This will be our last big party in Salinas/ Monterey for some time. We had to clear our schedule for the producers we’re working with in L.A. seaux we can continue working on developing our t.v. show, record, etc. If you’ve been meaning to come to a T.S.G.B. show for a while, please come out and support us now- you may not be able to see us for $5 again ! You know us- seaux It will be family friendly and fun for all ages. Bring all the kids to Rock Out and dance, they like concerts, too ! There will be food and drinks available at an additional fee.
08/07/2009 08:30 PM - THE BROOKDALE LODGE – REGGAE IN
THE WOODS – THE MIDTONES PLUS THRIVE!!!!
11570 HWY 9
BROOKDALE, California
95007
US
Cost:$7 :YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINE PRESENTS - REGGAE IN THE WOODS - THE MIDTONES
& THRIVE AT THE BROOKDALE LODGE 11570 HWY 9 BROOKDALE CA. 95007 DOORS
OPEN @ 8:30 SHOW @ 9:30 COST $7 THIS IS AN ALL AGES SHOW SO BRING THE WHOLE
FAMILY!!! THANKS AND HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE... MIKE CURBSIDE ARMYcsa
The Arcadists on MTV? Free raffle for Snow Patrol concert tickets. Grant and Green in San Francisco this Thursday, July 23! Wharf to Wharf on Sunday in Santa Cruz.
We have a busy week this week, two shows, an MTV contest, a raffle, here's what's going on:
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The Arcadists is currently #3 in MTV's Best Breakout Bay Area Band ... we need your votes to win this thing!!! If we win, we have a good chance to play on MTV. Please click on the link, register, click "Judge" and vote. You may need to refresh the web browser page to see us as a choice (out of 4 bands). Thanks! http://www.ourstage.com/contests/3176-mtv-vma-best-breakout-bay-area
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Snow Patrol Concert Raffle and SF Gig!
Thursday, July 23, we are playing a FREE show where we are raffling off two tickets to see Snow Patrol in Concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA, Fri, Oct 16, 2009 08:00 PM
We'll also have some teaser CDs of our upcoming album, mixing is almost done, the art is done, jeez: day job anyone?
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Wharf to Wharf Race in Santa Cruz, 8am Sunday July 26
Sunday, July 26, we play the Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf Race, so we'll be out on the street at 8am. We learned "Eye of the Tiger" just for this event, haha. Hope to see you there, as a visitor or as a blur running by. We'll be at 26th Avenue and East Cliff Drive.
"The six-mile race route is lined with a virtual gauntlet of entertainment...singers, dancers, clowns and jugglers... bands of every stripe...pep...dance...classical...raging sixties...su
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