Hailed as “an amazing talent” by Maverick, acclaimed fiddler/singer/songwriter Laura Cortese stands as one of the most versatile artists in contemporary roots music.

Over the course of a string of widely lauded albums—released both solo and with her band, The Dance Cards—Cortese has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden, shared stages with artists as diverse as Pete Seeger and Band of Horses, toured with The Mountain Goats, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Aoife O’Donovan, and traveled the world as a musical ambassador on behalf of the State Department, performing and teaching in India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Estonia, Greece, Ukraine, and Montenegro.