Oregon Music News

January 22, 2015 In December of 2010, she unveiled a completely new side to her music. At the time I wrote: Laura Ivancie has a confession to make. She's not apologizing for all those sets she did with her acoustic guitar or for being mostly known as a singer/songwriter. She still does them. But her confession is that deep-down she's an Electronic music diva. A little background provided by OMN's Ana Ammann in a preview she wrote on Lilith Fair 2010. With a famous Portland last name, Laura Ivancie, whose grandfather served as Portland’s Mayor in the 1980s, is setting out to make a name for herself. Music has been in her blood for as long as she can remember, yet she is a relative newcomer to the Portland music scene. After a successful college basketball career, Ivancie spent 14 months backpacking across South America with nothing but her guitar in 2005. When she returned, she became a firefighter for the US Forestry Service and in 2008, after much pleading from her friends, finally took to the stage to shar