Wren is much like her little namesake bird: free-spirited, creative, and a symbol of migration and movement. She has flown widely, from Venezuela and Guatemala to Galicia, Spain and Quebec, digging her hands and feet into their foreign soils, drawing her inspiration from the euphoric soul of wild lands. Her music is a call to remember the pulse of the earth, and the ways in which it makes us human. Wren is the musical project of Seattle singer-songwriter Laura Brady. Her all-original, alternative folk music is sweet and whimsical, grounded in classical guitar finger-picking, gentle vocal harmonies, and sweeping fiddle lines. Described as possessing a “naturalness and a philosophical bent at the same time,” Wren’s haunting melodies evoke the lands and waters of Brady’s native Pacific Northwest, as well as Galicia, Spain, where Brady has lived and practiced permaculture while learning the traditional Celtic-influenced coastal music. A published poet and writer before she turned to songwriting, Brady’s lyrics are lively and unexpected, grounded in a rich connection with the natural world. They tantalize the senses, tug at a distant memory, a sensation of childhood in nature, but leave the listener to discover the meaning. In contrast to contemporary music’s tendency towards complexity and overproduction, Wren is a gentle reminder of the simplicity and depth that can be found with a few voices, singing an honest truth. Wren’s full band features Ariana Taylor-Stanley on keyboard and Anna Boyd on fiddle. Her first album Bone Nest was released in late June, 2012. Deemed a “refreshing change from the commercial material we hear on the radio” by the Victory Review, in Bone Nest Brady does not shy away from pain, jealousy, or despair. In fact, that is what Bone Nest is all about: going back to the rocks and the earth, picking up the pecked-over bones of a prior self and weaving them back to together, bit by bit, into a nest, where life can begin again.