Old- Timey Favourite Laura Boosinger To Play 2025 Mountaingrass.
This year’s Mountaingrass Festival will feature Laura Boosinger, one of USA’s premier Old-Time Music exponents.
After living throughout the south of the USA during her teenage years Laura Boosinger’s family moved to North Carolina in 1975 when Laura was seventeen. The next year her life took a dramatic shift when she enrolled at Warren Wilson College where she learned that she could take banjo lessons for
college credit.
Having no idea what she had really signed up for, she met clawhammer banjo guru David Holt and began a lifelong friendship with her mentor. She designed her own college major around Appalachian music and studies. This was the start of Laura’s long career as a band member, solo performer, teacher, mentor and broadcaster, enriching the Bluegrass and Old-Time music traditions across the mountain and foothill counties of Western North Carolina.
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Laura Boosinger’s concert performances and recordings have earned for her a well-deserved reputation as one of North Carolina’s most talented singers and interpreters of the music of the Southern mountains.
Many US conventions, festivals, workshops and concerts feature Laura Boosinger’s talents on a variety of traditional stringed instruments, including Old-Time banjo, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and fingerstyle autoharp. Laura also serves as a Master of Ceremonies for The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the oldest folk festival in the
USA The album Mountain Treasures recorded by Laura recorded with George Shuffler in 2003 was considered iconic and a must for those interested in mountain music.
