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The real life of an LPIE instructor - Lamorindaweekly

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 11:08 ET
in Employment News, Press Release



Laura Zucker still remembers leaving her law practice behind in Connecticut to embark on a fresh start in Lafayette with her partner and three children nearly two decades ago. It didn't turn out like she imagined it.
"My partner left me and suddenly, I found myself (to be) a single mom of three little kids in a place where I couldn't practice law and had no means of income," Zucker remembers with a bittersweet smile. "But I still had my guitar."
Zucker grew up in a music loving family, with a mom who sang opera and a dad who worked at a radio station and appreciated music even if singing wasn't his forte. She'd dabbled in music as a kid and in college, but it wasn't until 2006 that she really leaned into the beginnings of her identity as a musician. "I started going into classrooms and singing `The Wheels on the Bus' and all sorts of children's songs. And one day, a(n) original) song popped out of me and I was (awestruck)," Zucker says. "I started writing songs. It was really easy to access my emotions (through music) because they were so close to the surface."
Zucker then joined the West Coast Songwriters Association and then filled the open nooks and crannies of her life (not occupied by child rearing responsibilities) with open mics and musical gigs. Zucker released her first record in 2007. A few years later, Zucker started sowing the seeds for the next generation of potential musicians as a Lafayette Partners in Education (LPIE) instructor in...


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