Laura Boosinger has won glowing reviews wherever she appears and is blessed with an “essence of the mountains” spirit that can take you back to the good old days when folks used to huddle around the radio. It’s said that people who haven’t seen her live should prepare themselves for a “goose pimples experience.” Josh Goforth is an outstanding musician, acclaimed fiddler, guitar picker, mandolin player and storyteller, from Madison County, NC. Josh has already garnered a Grammy Award nomination and has established himself as a great producer as well as stunning instrumentalist.
Sing Out magazine called Josh and Laura’s latest CD, Most of All, “Simple, direct and as good as it gets.”
Recommended for: Grades 4-12
Study Guide to come
Tickets
Contact theschaefercenter@appstate.edu, call 800-841-2787 or 828-262-4046, visit the box office at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts, or register online. Registration opens August 30.
Groups of 25+ people
$3/person
Groups of less than 25 people
$5/person
About Laura Boosinger
Laura Boosinger has been studying and performing traditional Southern Appalachian music since she was a student at Warren Wilson College in the 1970s. It was at WWC where she began to learn clawhammer banjo, learned how to call Southern mountain square dances, and attended Shaped Note Singing School with North Carolina Folk Heritage Award winner Quay Smathers. Laura performs solo and with her duet partner, Josh Goforth. Her latest recording, Most of All, with Josh Goforth, has received extensive airplay throughout the US and the UK. Laura is featured on the album Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition, with artists including Sheila Kay Adams, Bobby McMillon, Alice Gerrard, Amythyst Kiah, Roy Andrade, David Holt, and Roseanne Cash. The album, released in fall 2017, won a Grammy in 2018 for Best Album Compilation. Laura sang “Tom Dula (Dooley)” accompanied by the Kruger Brothers and Emma McDowell. Laura serves as a consultant to the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina. She is the “voice” of BRMT’s podcast Down the Road on the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina. In 2017, Laura was inducted into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame.
“Many artists can put on a good performance and entertain, but only a very few can put on a show that mesmerizes the audience with pure music that comes straight from the heart. Laura Boosinger is one of those rare individuals. She can bring a smile to any face and melt any heart. She brightens a room as if the lights were turned up.” —Friends of the Hendersonville Library
Other: lauraboosinger.com
