NEDERLAND - Laurie Dameron has been playing music professionally and writing songs for over 35 years. Lorrie Baum has been playing bass since 1967 and trombone for longer. Together, they make up the duo Laurie and Lorrie.
Dameron started playing guitar when she was seven years old, and she fell in love with performing after her first gig on Pearl Street. She attended Adams State University in Alamosa, moving to Summit County after she graduated in 1983.
Baum studied music at the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria, during which time she joined the all-girl band The Soul Magics. The band traveled throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for 13 months, after which Baum returned to the USA, earning her Bachelor of Music Education at CU Boulder.
The two first met in 1987 as performers in the Moodswing big band. In 1990, they started the all-women’s group Sister Swing, and they continued performing in jazz festivals and local breweries. Around this time, Baum also founded Raw Honey, the largest all-women’s group in Colorado at the time.
As Baum transitioned into band and orchestra teaching for elementary, middle, and high schoolers, she drifted away from performing. After retiring from teaching in 2014, she and Dameron reconnected, playing for the first time as a duo at Baum’s golf course in 2015.
Since then, they’ve played all over Denver, Boulder, and other locations throughout the Front Range. The two can blend together with slightly different stylistic leanings, with Dameron leaning more towards jazz and Baum more towards pop and rock.
Since retiring, Baum has also written pieces for school bands and orchestras, with pieces including “Baile de la Noche,” “Sunset Overture,” and “La Mariposa” published through Grand Mesa Music Publishers. Her piece “Barefoot Boogie” was performed by the Charleston School of the Arts Symphony String Orchestra in the 2024 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
For Dameron and Baum, performing is always a blast, and they feel they’ve only gotten tighter as a duo. Investing their audiences in their performances and encouraging everyone to dance along to their songs is the primary goal of their duo shows. They want to give the audience the same amount of fun they have on stage.
Laurie and Lorrie will be performing at Busey Brews, located at 70 East First Street in Nederland, on Sunday, October 12, 2025, starting at 2 p.m. To learn more about Dameron’s music, head to lauriedameron.com, and to find Baum’s orchestra pieces, head to grandmesastrings.com/collections/lorrie-baum.
