Laura Bryna with Stars of Cascadia
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 08:00 pm
Location
White Eagle Saloon | Portland, OR
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Nashville touring artist Laura Bryna comes to Portland at the White Eagle Saloon, supported by Portland's own Stars of Cascadia!Listing everyone from Etta James to Wynonna Judd to Joan Jett among her inspirations, Bryna grew up on timeless pop hits from the ’50s and ’60s thanks to the jukebox in her family’s basement in Mount Airy, Maryland. A born performer who got her start singing Elvis songs in home concerts with her sisters, she fell in love with Country music at a young age and found herself irresistibly drawn to the genre’s true-to-life storytelling. Not long after moving to Nashville as a teenager,Bryna inked a deal with a record label and soon made her debut with Trying to Be Me—an album featuring "Hometown Heroes," a straight-from-the-heart track she co-wrote in tribute to the Air National Guard and later premiered on Fox’s Monday Night Football. Along with opening for major artists like Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, and Luke Bryan, she’s since brought her soul-stirring vocals and radiant presence to a multitude of USO events, including a 2019 tour that traveled to such far-flung countries as Kuwait and Kosovo. "I remember standing there in Kuwait with all these men and women who sacrifice so much to protect us, and wanting to soak up every moment so I’d never forget what it felt like," she recalls. "It’s important to me to give back to the people who give all their time and energy so that we can live in freedom."
A passionate humanitarian, Bryna is also closely involved with such causes as Homes For Our Troops (a nonprofit that provides specially adapted custom homes for injured veterans) and the Make-A-Wish Foundation (an organization she first encountered as a small child, after her brother suffered a brain aneurysm). "My brother ended up getting better, but learning about Make-A-Wish at such a young age made me want to help other kids too," says Bryna, who served as a board member for the foundation’s Mid-Atlantic chapter and still works with the Nashville and L.A. chapters. "My thinking is: 'I'm here living my dream, and these kids should all be living theirs.'"
A true force of nature, Bryna made her debut as a children’s book author just a month after releasing "Jawbreaker," marking yet another triumph in a blockbuster year that also included the release of "Body First"—a seductive single in the vein of past hits like "Sweet Revenge," a dance-leaning 2019 track whose Dave Aude-produced remix climbed to No. 10 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart. By the end of 2022, she’d also delivered her Christmas single "Wishlist" to enormous fanfare, including landing on over 20,000 user playlists across Spotify and emerging as an instant holiday classic that once again ruled the charts in 2023, hitting the top 5 on the Billboard Holiday chart,the top 20 on the Billboard Hot AC chart, and No. 1 on the What’s In-Store chart.
For Bryna, no amount of chart success can match the satisfaction that comes from interacting with her fanbase, a deeply devoted following who’ve named themselves "The Bryniacs." With her latest live experience including making her debut performance at SXSW and at Napa Valley’s Live In The Vineyard Goes Country, she’s looking forward to hitting the road this summer and performing for her beloved fans all over the country."They’re all different ages and from all walks of life, but we’ve come together because of this love and passion we feel for music, and for each other," says Bryna. "It feels so good to have a safe, positive space where nobody’s judging; it’s definitely helped me to grow and learn so much about myself. Now I’m at a place where I’m so comfortable in my own skin, and I’m making music as the best me that I know how to be."
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Where is it happening?
White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell,Portland, Oregon, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
