Larry & Leslie Latour are singer/songwriters from Maine and Arizona. Stop by this evening for a wonderful evening of music.
Larry and Leslie Latour have been writing songs for close to 30 years, and have been writing songs together for the 20 years of their marriage, with over 100 songs to their credit. They write songs of life, love, and activism, with 6 albums to their credit, Larry’s “Little By Little,” an album of Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger style folk tunes with their band Generations in the early 2000s, “Generations: Live At The Loft,” and four albums of original music, “That’s Life (2006),” “Real Music (2016),” “Real Music Two (2019),”, and Real Music Three (2021).” They are working with Willy Kelly to create a different type of album with working title “Real Music Four,” although it is a surprising departure from their previous work.
Larry grew up in Queens, New York, and learned to play guitar in high school, learning the songs of the seventies in college. He started writing late in life in the ’90’s and never looked back. Leslie grew up in Bronxville, New York, and her parents were old folkies who led “hootenannies.” Her father played stand up bass and mandolin, and her mother played piano. They crossed paths with the Seeger family in the fifties and sixties at Manumet Alternative School in Upstate New York.
After Larry retired from the School of Computer Science at the University of Maine, they developed their “listening room” style while in the Verde Valley in Arizona from 2015-2019, running a performance series in Sedona and performing a number of “listening room” shows in the valley. It’s this style that you’ll see at their show, with music, stories, and a few laughs. The audience has told Larry and Leslie that they let them into a corner of their lives with their music.
Back in Maine after the pandemic, they started a Tuesday evening online series of shows, currently on their 210th show after almost 5 years. They’ve done a number of in person “listening room” shows, with The Crumpet in Bucksport, Maine being their preferred haunt. They also run a monthly Jam session of all styles of music at the Redeemer Lutheran Church on Essex Street in Bangor. They are in the process of developing a music film of their work.
