Restless Spirit/James & Sybil Laurent

Music Awards: Music Forte, Artist Of The Day

The American Song Festival: 1974
Honorable Mention For: 1. Where My Heart Stays, 2. Fine Sparkling Sands, Now, Renamed, “ Billy’s Song” For Bill Laurent, Who Wrote The Original Song…

Also, Airplay International, A Nashville Songwriting Competition,
Tow Awards For, “Susie Facing West”,
In The Country Rock Category
Coweta arts tidbits
The Successor To Newnan-Coweta Arts Council News Releases
Composed By: Forrest W. Schultz 770-583-3258 schultzf_2002@yahoo.com

September 8, 2005
Famed Singer/Musician James Laurent at Gallery Row in Newnan
The owners of the new Gallery Row Coffee Shop in Newnan are making a great contribution to the Coweta County Arts Scene. Not only do they exhibit paintings by local artists on their walls and sponsor art lectures, they also bring in great musicians and singers who perform there. The noted singer and musician James Laurent will be performing there every Friday night from now on. Laurent is an accomplished musician on the banjo, harmonica, and guitar, dobro, and keyboards, During the past 30 years he has written over 1500 songs, Folk, Country, Jazz, and Blues. He is a member of BMI, the Nashville Songwriters Association, GMAI (Georgia Music IndustryAssociation), The New England Folk Song Society, The Folk Web, Music Forte, CMA, NSAI, and the Boston Songwriters Workshop.
Gallery Row is located at 22 West Court Square in Newnan, two doors down from where The Alamo used to be. It is owned by Bill and Kelley Anderson, who also own a Gallery Row Coffee Shop in Carrollton. Kelley is a native of Carrollton and Bill hails from Sonoma, California. We heartily welcome their Gallery Row Coffee Shop to the burgeoning Coweta Arts Scene!!
Coweta arts tidbits
The Successor To Newnan-Coweta Arts Council News Releases

Composed By: Forrest W. Schultz 770-583-3258 schultzf_2002@yahoo.com


July 10, 2006

"Black Pearl" Painting Displayed at Gallery Row In Art Auction on E-Bay

James Laurent of Newnan is a man of many talents. I first met him at a meeting of the Coweta Writers Group. Later I learned he was also a singer and musician, when I heard him and his wife Sybil, perform, last year, at one of the “Coffee House Performing Arts Variety shows”, held in, “The Newnan Theatre lobby”, which was fixed up to look like a coffee house. Later that year he and Sybil gave several performances at a real coffee house-- the brand new Gallery Row Coffee Shop on the Courthouse Square in Newnan. And later yet I learned he was a painter and a member of the Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA). And now I learn that he has an interesting painting hanging on the wall of Gallery Row, which is a part of the July exhibit of NCAA artists.

Amazingly, since he has been working on this painting for 1+ years, he completed it just in time to coincide with the film premiere of Pirates of The Carribbean. The subject of the painting is a realistic and gorgeous rendition of the ship made famous (or is it infamous?) by that film, the Black Pearl !! Laurent promises, though, that there is no curse attached to his painting! But there could be a treasure involved…
Today, I, (James), Am Involved With Many New Works And Studies, Including New Designs, And MIT OpenCourseWare, Where I Am Studing; Quantum Physics, Sacred Geometry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Physics Of Music, Also On My Own Electron Color Manipulation Art, And Computer Art, That I Designed In The Early 90s, (And Am Still Working On). Also Working On My Glow In The Dark Painting, (Art) And Fingernail Polish That I Invented In The Early 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5TDmXPYWQ&t=57s
Studies In CHI, Reiki, Ancient, And Future, Earth History Studies…
Belongs To, “ “Berklee Performance Center”, “MIT Open CourseWare”, “Radio Airplay”, “FolkAlley”, “BMI”, “ SoundExchange”, “Club Passim”, “”, “Corner Arts Gallery”, “