Originally from California, now living in Montreal, Laura performs and teaches Scottish and Québécois fiddling internationally and has over a dozen albums to her credit. Her distinctive sound and compelling interpretations of traditional tunes are intensely personal yet grounded in meticulous archival and ethnographic research. She currently performs with the bands Traverse, Chicouté, and Portage and has toured with Cordelia’s Dad, Triptych, Ensemble Galilei, and dancer Sandy Silva. Her album Traverse, with Rachel Aucoin and Nicholas Williams, was awarded the 2024 Prix Opus for Album of the Year in the category Traditional Québécois Music. She is the author of Music and the Staged Veillée in Quebec: Performing Tradition (University of Illinois Press, 2026) and co-author of The Glengarry Collection: The Highland Fiddle Music of Aonghas Grant (Mel Bay). She directs the Fonds Jean Trudel project and her co-production of the CD Douglastown: Music and Song from the Gaspé Coast received the 2014 Prix Mnémo for documentation of Quebec’s intangible cultural heritage. She is also an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto Scarborough.