MayMay

MayMay is Laurel Simmons of Portland, Oregon. In 2012, her debut album,"And so I Place you in the Setting Sun", was released on Flau Records along with a self titled EP of home recordings. In 2015 she went back into the studio to record a new collection of songs with the help of Heather Woods Broderick and Peter Broderick in their coastal studio, The Sparkle. The result is titled "Mountains Hills Plateaus and Plains".

In addition to working on her own music she spent some years as a member of beloved Portland chamber-folk darlings Loch Lomond, and as a backing musician for many others including Alela Diane, Rauelsson, and Soren Lokke Juul.

MayMay began during Simmonsʼ first winters in the Pacific Northwest leaving her homesick for the deserts of her native Arizona and the closeness of generations of family she left behind. MayMay is named in homage to her Arizona roots, in particular her grandmother Barbara Mae May.

For Simmons, music is a both a vehicle and a prayer, a way of portraying earnestness that compels the moving forward.