Ways of the World

Sometimes I Wonder

You Can't Waltz (with just anyone)

Pine & Rose

Empty Book

Eric Law is a punk rock cellist with an old time soul. He also happens to write some songs.

He begins his cello studies with his father at age six. By age thirteen he throws himself into a fit of rebellion against the restrictions of classical training, picks up the bass guitar, and starts a loveable rock and roll band with three of his best friends. They play in church basements on Saturday nights, and the girls adore them.

Though he dabbles passionately with this, Eric maintains a fond and truthful relationship with his cello. Something about the two of them is functionally magical, and Eric fosters a yearning to pursue, via music, the timeless American image of the man on the front porch, cabin in the mountains, straw between his teeth, his dog or his llama or his yak taking a poignant and breath-heavy nap in the shade of the pine in the front yard.

Eric attends the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in the spring of 2013. Here, Eric studies with cello powerhouses Eugene Friesen and Mike Block, and fiddling legends Matt Glaser, Bruce Molsky, and Darol Anger. Eric takes these traditional American music influences and lassos the delightful twang of dusty boots and moonshine together with the denim jacket, thick-rimmed glasses musical aesthetic of 90’s alt rock. He takes his leather boots with him to the moon and back.

In addition to his solo career, Eric currently performs with Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, We Avalanche, and Jen Starsinic. He is a first-prize winner of the 2013 ASTA Eclectic String Festival. He is the primary cello instructor at the Colorado-based C*ASTA String Camp, and he teaches at clinics nation-wide. In the spring of 2014, Eric will be performing as a soloist with the Boston Ballet. In the coming year, his followers can anticipate both his first solo record and his second record with the poetic and rocked-out We Avalanche.

Eric lives nowhere in search of fans and friends, old and new, across the country. Someday soon, he looks forward to meeting you.



(Biography by L.L.

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