A concert at the Front Street Public House in downtown Burlington Thursday included four instruments: a kazoo, harmonica, guitar and tambourine. But there was just one person on stage.

Laura Thurston is not limited to playing one instrument at a time. She has mastered the skills required to be her own one-woman band.

Thurston said the instruments vary in degree of difficulty.

“Out of the ones I do now, guitar is definitely the most difficult, but a lot of that was learning how to hold the guitar and use muscle memory and the finger tips,” Thurston said. “The harmonica comes pretty easy.”

Thurston started her musical career playing with various groups, but these groups moved away and Thurston was left in a town where she didn’t know anyone. With nobody else to play with, she become her own band.

Originally from Rochester, N.Y, Thurston moved to Charleston, S.C., where she decided to start playing music on the city’s streets. Her original song, “Caroline,” describes life growing up in N.Y and the move to Charleston. She said it was an ode to her roots. Thurston’s friend in Charleston inspired her to become a one-woman band after the other groups dissipated.

“A good friend of mine, Hank Marley, he and I both played street music a lot around the same time and you have to have a permit down there to play so both of us got our permits and occasionally jammed together,” Thurston said. “He’d do the harmonica and I’d do the guitar.”

Thurston’s set list for the night consisted of a variety of original songs and covers. She covered one song by Bob Dylan, who she said is one of the musicians who inspires her.

She gets her inspiration from singers and bands with powerful careers, such as the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Bobby DiFranco, Thurston said.

Nathan Arizona, bartender at the Public House, said the bar finds entertainment based on bands they met previously or people they had played with before.

Arizona said the bar offers a variety of different genres and is receptive to anything as long as it’s good.

“Tonight we have Laura, who’s a singer and songwriter and Friday we have a metal band,” he said.

This was Thurston’s third time performing at Front Street Public House, but every night varies, said Arizona.

Chris Joplin was in the audience Thursday night and said he enjoys the talent that comes through Front Street Public House.

Musicians like Thurston not only perform, but they also work and hang out at the Front Street Public house, Joplin said.

“It’s just a big melting pot of musicians,” he said.