Billboard Magazine award recipient, Laurie Dameron, has been playing guitar for over 50 years, and singing even longer. She studied jazz guitar at Adams State College, and shortly thereafter took lessons from the world-renowned guitarist Johnny Smith. Between solo performances and playing with her band, “Laurie D and the Blues Babes”, she has performed for hundreds of venues in and out of Colorado over the past 20 years. Ms. Dameron is a five-time winner in the Colorado Music Business Association's song writing contests, and in 2013 she passed the first round of “America's Got Talent.”
Laurie has released three CDs and is versatile with selections from folk, instrumental, pop, country, blues, and jazz. Just a few of the venues she has performed at include: Boulder Creek Festival, Capitol Hill People's Fair, A Taste of Colorado, Dazzle Jazz Club, The D Note, Mead Street Station, Mary's Lake Lodge, and Stanley Hotel in beautiful Estes Park. She has also opened for Denver acts; The Informants, The Delta Sonics, Lionel Young Band, Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels and the Kings, Dan Treanor Band, and Afrosippi with Erica Brown.
Lorrie Baum, on bass and vocals, studied trombone at the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria. She took a pause from her studies to join an Austrian all-girl band, “The Soul Magics”, who played to sell-out crowds throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. After returning to the USA she finished her Bachelor of Music Education degree at CU Boulder, and later earned a Masters degree in music theory and composition at UNC in Greeley.
Ms. Baum taught instrumental music in the Denver Public Schools for 24 years, and has toured with many Colorado based bands including Earl Cole, Raw Honey, Nikki Dufrene from New Orleans, Airhart out of Kansas City, The Sunday Ladies, Wood and Street Talk, and Sister Swing.
For the last three years Laurie Dameron and Lorrie Baum bass/vocals have been performing as a duo, “Laurie and Lorrie”. Together with their rich history they please any audience with folk, pop, rock, country, blues and jazz, and originals! They are Colorado’s premiere female duo.
