Lisa Moritz's new CD "Holding Time" is now available! I played some mandolin and also added some backing vocals on this CD. Click here for more information.

Steve Unruh has just released his newest CD "The Great Divide"!

Click on the banner below to watch the trailer for the movie “Air” - the feature-length musical from Through A Glass Productions, with music composed by the ultra-talented Steve Unruh!

~ L

11/02/06

Ooo, I guess I really should take the time to write updates more often. Unfortunately, the busier I am the less time I have to write it all down! Isn’t there a Pennsylvania Dutch or Amish saying about that phenomenon which goes something like, “The hurrier I go the behinder I get”? At least I remember one of my aunts had a little plaque in her kitchen with that saying on it.

My songwriter friend Lisa Moritz is in the middle of recording her second cd, and she asked me to contribute mandolin and harmony vocals on a couple songs. I have finished the mandolin for one song and hope to have the final track for the the other song complete by early next week. I think we’ll track the vocals at a later time after the majority of the instrument parts are done. My good friend Steve Unruh, an amazing composer and musician in his own right, has even agreed to add some violin parts all the way from his home in Rhode Island! I believe Lisa hopes to release the new cd early in 2007, so be sure to bookmark her website for news on when it is available!

In other news, Lawrence, Kansas’, own Through a Glass Productions has finished their feature-length musical titled “Air” and has begun submitting it to film festivals!! Steve Unruh composed a heck of a lot of music for this movie, and will be coming to Lawrence with his wife for the cast & crew premiere. I added a vocal part to one of the songs on the “Air” soundtrack, and so I get to go to the cast & crew premiere too; it’s quite exciting! Steve asked me to play a few songs with him at the afterparty, and it will be great to perform with him again, provided we can get a few songs worked up together within the next week with all the other projects going on.

You’ll definitely want to check out the Through a Glass Productions website to watch the trailer for “Air,” and be on the lookout for it in the film festival circuit!

~ L

07/24/06

Okay, I’m finally starting to get my arse, er, self up in front of people and play a few songs.

I’ve been going to an open mic at the Crave Cafe for the past month or so and have really been enjoying it, although it’s not helping curb my caffeine habit!!

The open mic is hosted by Valorie Engholm. Valorie is also in the band Manifold Array. Manifold Array will be playing a show at the Crave on Friday, August 18, 2006, and they have graciously invited me to do an opening set. It’ll be my first “real” performance in quite a few years. I think Val Bontrager will probably play bass guitar on a couple of songs. There is more information on the Live & In Person page. Whoohoo!!

~ L

03/17/06

Ugh, I just saw on the internet that there is a 27-year-old “Laura Cossey” who is wanted on charges of accessory to murder in the death of an Oklahoma City police officer. Scary!

It reminds me of how when I first moved to Lawrence we would often get phone calls and messages from various places looking for a “Don Cossey.” One of the callers even told me this “Don Cossey” had provided my name as his ex-wife - Ha! I wonder if the Oklahoma City girl could be the one that caller was looking for.

Geez, why can’t my last name be shared with a nobel laureate or international peace activist or something nice!!!

~ L

01/16/06

I added a photo slide show to the Artsy Stuff page. It was fun to set up. Check it out!

~ L

12/30/05 - www.lauracossey.com is finally up and running!

Well, after much deliberation I finally decided to set up a website for my music. I've spent the last couple of years putting together a small digital home studio and am now in the process of recording my first solo cd. I have absolutely no idea when it will be finished, but hope to release it some time in 2006, unless, of course, I chicken out at the last minute.

After the cd is finished I hope to start playing live again. Valerie Bontrager is graciously learning the bass guitar parts I’ve been writing. Now, if I could only find a drummer who sings and someone who sings and plays a ariety of other instruments . . .

That’s it for now. I need to get back to recording so there will be some actual content for this website! Thanks for visiting!

~ L