"Venga!" genre: World Traditions
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	When Fiorentino plays her bamboo flute, her eyes close and her back is angled as she leans into the microphone. She creates earth tones which stretch and contract like wind in the trees, like a large winged bird overhead, earth tones which stretch and contract like her voice. - Ted Dimond, Taos News
	CD: Windhorse Rising   Label: Entelechy Music/BMI Credits: Laurianne Fiorentino
	Story Behind the Song After a second invitation to NXNE early 2000, June through September saw Fiorentino touring and living in Ireland based out of Waterford. She Musicially Directed an abstract Russian play for Waterford’s Youth Drama project. Three cuts off of Laurianne's instrumental CD Windhorse Rising were featured. It was a wonderful international exchange and recieved rave reviews from local press. She also performed in the dramatic Waterford Spraoi festival and attended several traditional Irish festivals in between her own gigs soaking up the vibes and jamming with some of the country's finest traditional musicians. 1996 ACOUSTIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEE (NAS) Fiorentino has been dubbed a "traditional original". Her 1997 solo concert CD 'THE MATCH' nominated BEST OF 1998 by the New Mexico Music Industry Coalition. Laurianne was also selected to participate in the 1998 FOLKRAWL concert series in Memphis, playing to a full house at B.B. King's Blues Club. Radio programmers (folk, alternative, rock and world music) in Vermont, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico are playing LAF's music. Lately, she's been heard on the air in Australia and Ireland too.

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