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"Bates, a violinist, is in demand for her ease in crossing musical genres."
— MacLeans Magazine
BOWED ARTS
The future of string music in performance, education, and composition.
VÖLUR
A heavy metal trio that features my electric violin work alongside Lucas Gadke (bass) and Justin Ruppel (drums).
“Cinematic and self-possessed, they offered up Wagnerian bombast stripped down and filtered through wild pagan folk and thunderous doom. If you’ve never seen a crowd full of leather and spikes headbanging to a violin lead, you’ve never seen Völur.”
— Vice Noisey
THE BOXCAR BOYS
Original compositions influenced by New Orleans style jazz, dixieland, and klezmer music.
“21st-century eclectics, ...plain-old rambunctious whimsy... guaranteed to put a smile on your face.”
— Toronto Star
GATES
A post rock orchestral collective led by Bryan Bray. Here is the first single from our upcoming full length album "Vas".
CANADA GOOSE
FW22 Inspired by Basecamp
Violin & Co-composer: Laura C. Bates
HARLEY DAVIDSON
Violin: Laura C. Bates // Featuring: Jason Momoa
CARHARTT
Violin: Laura C. Bates // Featuring: Jason Momoa
HOLT RENFREW
Violin: Laura C. Bates
BRAVEN
Violin: Laura C. Bates// Featuring: Jason Momoa
"Laura can really conquer the darkness in a piece of music but is also extremely agile, so she can pull off a solo as well as Eddie Van Halen, but in a more jazz-tinted way.”
—Emm Gryner
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NOMINATIONS