"Shaffer exudes the grandeur of the golden eras of American music, not just in sound and style, but in looks and persona as well. In many ways you might say she was born 50 years too late, but the past’s loss is truly the present’s gain. Laura Shaffer is refreshingly ours to enjoy right now.”
Info & booking: laura@midnightrefrain.com
Singer/recording artist Laura Shaffer was born and raised in Las Vegas. Her father had been a professional musician, arranger, and musical director on The Strip for many years already, and she had the benefit of growing up around “the business”. She studied three different instruments and a little dance in her youth, but finally found that singing was the way she could best share her love of music with an audience. She began auditioning at 19 and got her first lead in a small show that year. Her early years in the industry were spent building and polishing her talents and being mentored by show business veterans, and she never looked back. She has performed and continues to perform in all its major hotels: The Palazzo, Mandalay Bay, The Wynn, The Cosmopolitan, The Mandarin Oriental, Bellagio, Four Seasons, MGM, etc., as well as popular off-Strip casino resorts such as The Palms, Red Rock Casino Resort, and Green Valley Ranch Resort.
She's opened for Tony Bennett, Bob Newhart, Donny and Marie and Wayne Newton, and has many times delighted sold-out audiences at Las Vegas' spectacular world class performing arts venue, The Smith Center, with her timeless glamour and musical stylings. She has been broadcast to subscribers around the world by
Yamaha. She has entertained such diverse celebrity clientele as All-Star quarterback Drew Bledsoe and Grammy and Oscar nominated tenor Andrea Bocelli at their own private parties, and was chosen as the single performer to represent Las Vegas by Anthony Bourdain in his Emmy-winning CNN show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
Having gathered a multi-generational fan base with her glamorous Old Hollywood look and her swinging & sultry take on the great jazz and swing standards, she also performs special engagements across the US, and has entertained at countless galas, celebrity launches, corporate events, and charity benefits. From showrooms to ballrooms to lounges, from small combo to big band, the “Noir Nightingale” enthralls with the glamour of Golden Era Hollywood, the glitz of mid-century Las Vegas, and an engaging vocal style full of warmth, sophistication, magnetism and charm. She is the owner of Midnight Refrain, a media and consumer content company that focuses on the 1920s through the 1960s in music, print, and related products, including her popular “Golden Hollywood Portraits” and “Vintage Pinup” Laura Shaffer pictorial calendars. She is currently in production with a new album. Find Laura on her social media at:
www.facebook.com/laurashaffernoirnightingale
Instagram: @laura_shaffer_noirnightingale
Laura’s musical ability comes by way of her father, pianist/arranger/composer Charlie Shaffer, who has written for the likes of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, and The Houston Symphony Pops Orchestra, as well working with such legends as Peggy Lee, Lola Folana, Joe Williams, Debbie Reynolds, and others. Her brother is also a musician, singer, and composer.