Laurel MacDonald

With Fujiwara Dance: I Eat the Stars, Love Learn Listen, Moving Parts, and Waiting for Bardo(t)

Laurel MacDonald is a singer and composer based in Toronto, Canada. She has released five critically-acclaimed CDs and has performed extensively, most recently in She Sings as She Flies and Patchwork (both with Mary Jane Lamond), in her solo project Videovoce, in the dance productions SDX (Kaeja d’Dance) and Moving Parts (Fujiwara Dance Inventions), and as a member of the Georgian ensemble Darbazi.

Along with her creative partner Phil Strong, Laurel has composed the music for many film productions, most recently for the dance films Kitchen Dances (Kaeja d’Dance) and Love Learn Listen (Fujiwara Dance Inventions), and for the film documentary You Are Here, directed by Moze Mossanen for Bell Media/HBO. Laurel is soon to start work recording her next solo album I Eat the Stars, but in the meantime she is thrilled to be working again with the wonderful creative team for Moving Parts in 2023.