Laura Veirs announces new live album, Laura Veirs And The Choir Who Couldn't Say (Live In Angoulême)

The recording documents Veirs’ May 2025 performance of 14 of her songs – as well as one by case/lang/veirs (Veirs’ 2016 collaborative album with k.d. lang and Neko Case) – alongside a French school choir, and featuring arrangements by their director, Patrice Cleyrat.

“Hearing their brave and soulful renditions of my songs and performing with them was a career highlight,” recalls Veirs. “I’m so glad we were able to capture the magic of this performance and can share it with the world in the form of this new album.”

Laura Veirs And The Choir Who Couldn’t Say (Live In Angoulême) is the Portland, Oregon-based Veirs’ second live album in two years, and a surprising collaboration. The choir and Cleyrat practiced for nine months before Veirs joined them on stage for a recorded live performance in Angoulême on 24 May 2025.

A longtime fan of Veirs, Cleyrat previously also organized a concert of her songs with another children’s choir (the “Young Rapture Choir”) in 2006. While Veirs attended that concert but did not perform, the show was also recorded and she released it as a limited edition CD on her label.

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. Shining Lamp Interlude 1
3. Freedom Feeling
4. Wide-Eyed, Legless
5. Shining Lamp Interlude 2
6. Little Deschutes
7. Lonely Angel Dust
8. I Want To Be Here
9. Shape Shifter
10. Shining Lamp Interlude 3
11. Black Butterfly
12. Snow Camping
13. Make Something Good
14. Riptide
15. I Can See Your Tracks