Arkansas Freelance Composer. Author. Independent Artist
United Imaginations Workshops Artist in Residency
Arts In Education
Within Musixal
Within every being, there is a shining soul. Sometimes it isn't easy to feel, but through each experience, we learn about ourselves and each other. Perhaps we should open our hearts and love a little more. Love ourselves and have compassion for one another. Believing in oneself first is key to opening the door and allowing all that is you to be. Being your true self with all your perfect and imperfect ways is your Golden Soul.
Within is a collection of songs that illuminate the journey of one searching for belonging. Along the path of Going His Way, he encounters guidance through dreams and new friends who see and respect him for his true self.
Available Play/screenplay in
January 2026
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Dear Golden Soul
Arts In Education
Original Musicals and Plays
My Artist in Education Information is now incorporated into one place; less confusing, right?
Here is the link to the Arkansas Arts Council for me.
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Laura Botsford AIE with the Arkansas Arts Council
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Story Books Written with Children
More about United Imaginations Workshops AIE
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Parlor Tricks
April 28th. 2020
Crossover Jazz/R&B, Classical music, and Ambient voices are woven into 13 innovative metaphorical instrumentals that musically tell a story in 2020.
Journey of Fairy Tales
November 2020
“Journey of Fairytales is an enchanting book of Phantasmagorical childhood adventures that touch on themes of love, hope, and enlightenment."
Author Laura Botsford runs wild in this free-wheeling book that will be a delight to share with children of all ages."
~ Anatole Burkin, Retired Editor for Taunton Press
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Journey of Fairy Tales is a Disneyesque Never Ending Story adventure that sparks the beginning of storytelling on Earth. In the uplifting tale of the Tipleah Tree, the Tree of Leaves holds all the stories ever written until one unimaginative day they are stolen by the foreboding negative Harmies of Namerus and locked behind a swirling wall of dismal thought forms.
Kingston and Isla lost their parents in the Angerdah invasion and set out on a journey to rescue them and the Leaves, ever to be written in storybooks. They embark on a challenging adventure to the Linkalee Alignment, where only by being in tune with their natural laws of attraction, using magical gadgets, and a willingness to work together can they rescue the Leaves and bring their parents home. Where there is light, there can be no darkness.
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Genre: Young Adult and eternally young at heart
Hardback or Paperback 5.50 x 8.50 black and white
120 pages
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Journey of Fairy Tales is also available at these locations
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The opening excerpt from Rendezvous, the first chapter of Journey of Fairy Tales, is on Spotify.
Aquarium Funk
DECEMBER 2015
Aquarium Funk is an innovative compendium of cool with wings, hip with the hap of old school meets break-out contemporary jazz fusions of capriccio tuneful charm.
Aquarium Funk is born out of a fusion of funk and jazz with a Latin feel and is an eclectic soup of Soul genres that defies gravity and shouts to the world something fresh and truly swellegant.
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Review by Simon Reich
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Laura Botsford is an artist. And I don’t just mean in the musical sense. Visual arts are also a creative outlet for her. Collages seem to be a specialty of hers and when it comes to music, this also seems to be her strength, musical collages, or as Laura calls them ... “coalescing the vapors”.
It is imagination that brings
joy of creativity into the world with every song, every word, and yes, anything one makes.
~ laura botsford
Poet Streets
Poet Streets explores a romantic theme of two lovers reunited after a separation that leaves them empty. There is magic in the night as the city that once tore them apart brings them back together.
With a blend of Classical/Ambiance and Jazz/Rock, straight from the tap, with all subsuming emotions, we trace their heart lines in notes that are at once soul-searching and inevitably meshed in destiny.
Journey of FairyTales
Release 8/2016
The Journey of Fairy Tales epic orchestration for the future of all intuitive tales that ever were and ever shall be is an enchanted musical path of the most splendiferous and cinematic kind.
Only the purest of intentions can make the passage through the Linkalee Alignment to save the Book of Leaves and recover the lost literature of the ancient ones.
. "An abundantly adventurous and cinematic fantastical Sound Journey."
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Journey of Fairy Tales is a Disneyesque, Never-Ending Story adventure that sparks the beginning of storytelling on Earth in the uplifting tale of the Tipleah Tree. The Tree of Leaves holds all the stories ever written until one unimaginative day, when the Angerdahs, the negative Harmies of Namerus, steal it, kidnapping their parents and locking them behind a swirling wall of dismal thought forms.
Kingston and Isla set off on a journey to rescue them and the Leaves, which are ever to be written in storybooks.
They embark on a challenging adventure to the Linkalee Alignment, where they can rescue the Leaves and bring their parents home by being in tune with their natural frequency, magical gadgets, and a willingness to work together.
Where there is light, there can be no darkness.
For softcover and Kindle version visit the sites below.
For signed hard copies of Journey of Fairy Tales, $12.50
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Desert Roses Release 10/30/2025
In the heart of the desert, where sand and silence stretch endlessly, the sight of a rose blooming is nothing short of a miracle. Its delicate petals, rich in color and fragrance, rise defiantly against the harsh winds and parched earth, embodying resilience in the face of desolation. Just as the rose finds a way to thrive where life seems impossible, so too does the soul reveal its hidden beauty in barren seasons of existence. The desert becomes a canvas where the rose, like the spirit, teaches us that even in isolation, hardship, or drought, there is an inner wellspring of strength and grace that cannot be extinguished. Within the love of family and friends, we stand strong, united hearts, a bond unbroken.
In this way, the rose is not only a flower but a living metaphor for the soul’s ability to bloom in the most unexpected and unforgiving places. And it thrives in our hearts, in the love of family and friends.
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Last Desert Rose
All you are is imagined soMake and Believe in you
