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such venues as the 1989 “Michigan Womyn's Music Festival” and

the 1989 “Newport Folk Festival,” of which a CD containing

portions of her performance was released. On July 4, 1991, she

opened for Bob Dylan at the “Tanglewood Music Center” in Lenox,

Massachusetts. Among her last performances were at “Union

Chapel,” Islington, London, England in November 1994; “The New

York Bottom Line” Christmas Eve Show in 1994; and at “McCabe's”

in Los Angeles February 11 and 12, 1995.

The “Tonight Show” and the “Late Show with David Letterman”

pursued Nyro for TV appearances, but she turned them down,

citing her discomfort with appearing on television. She made

only a handful of early TV appearances, and one fleeting moment

on VH-1 performing the title song from “Broken Rainbow” on Earth

Day in 1990. According to producer Gary Katz, she also turned

down an invitation to be the musical guest on the 1993 season

opener of “Saturday Night Live.” She never released an official

video, although there was talk of filming some of “The Bottom

Line” appearances in the 1990s.

Laura had a perhaps yearlong relationship with Blood, Sweat and

Tears bassist Jim Fielder starting in 1968, and with Crosby,

Stills and Nash drummer Dallas Taylor for about six months after

that. She also had a brief relationship with singer/songwriter