Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell is a Nashville-born, New York-based country music artist. Since her critically acclaimed debut in 2000, Not The Tremblin’ Kind, Cantrell’s music has been celebrated in The New York Times, O Magazine, Elle, and the Wall Street Journal, and has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and “Weekend Edition.” She has performed on “A Prairie Home Companion,” “Mountain Stage,” and the “Grand Ole Opry,” and appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and Sundance Channel’s “Spectacle: Elvis Costello.” Her most recent release, Laura Cantrell at the BBC, compiles the best of her UK radio performances from 2000 to 2005, tracing her rise as an Americana artist on the airwaves of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

About Naked Soul

Naked Soul presents performances from some of the country’s top singer/songwriters without microphones or amplifiers, as if the music were, acoustically speaking, naked. The musicians in the series draw upon the universal themes inherent in Himalayan art—spirituality, peace, tolerance, wisdom, compassion—on select Friday evenings.