Grace Rogers (Artistic Director) is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who grew up in a Bath County, Kentucky family steeped in old-time music. She first attended Cowan Creek Mountain Music School at age 7 as a beginning fiddler and went on to learn guitar and banjo.
Grace focused on southeast Kentucky banjo traditions as the 2022-23 Charlie Whitaker Memorial Apprentice to John Haywood and served an archival fellowship at Berea College’s Appalachian Sound Archive, studying the recordings and documentation of Magoffin banjo players. Grace performs her original music solo and frequently collaborates with Blakeley Burger and Nadia Ramlagan. Her EP Cowpocalypse was released on the Louisville label Obsolete Staircases.
Grace joins us for A Celebration of Women in Old Time Music, March 5-8, 2026