Donica Christensen
Donica Christensen is a banjo player, fiddler and music industry executive. She grew up in Washburn, Wisconsin. She began on old-time banjo and switched to bluegrass style after hearing the Minnesota band Stoney Lonesome at a nearby festival. She moved to Nashville at 17 to study at Belmont University, where she played banjo in the school's bluegrass ensemble and earned a business degree focused on the music business. She moved to Franklin County, Virginia, after graduating in 2000 and headed publicity for Doobie Shea Records. She played with Jeanette Williams & Clearwater and David Via & Corn Tornado as well as several Nashville artists, including Ronnie Bowman. She had left performing by 2012 and was working as Director of Artist & Media Development at Sugar Hill Records.
In the newsletter
- No. 29 May 2002