Katie Laur
Katie Laur (born Nancy Katherine Haley, January 18, 1944 – August 3, 2024) was an American bluegrass and jazz singer, writer, and radio host from Paris, Tennessee, who became the leading figure of Cincinnati's bluegrass scene. After singing with Jim McCall, in 1974 she formed the Katie Laur Band, one of the first touring bluegrass bands fronted by a woman, and recorded three albums for Vetco, plus Main Street (1997) on JimBob Records. For more than 27 years she hosted Music from the Hills of Home on WNKU, and she wrote essays collected in Red Dirt Girl (2022). She received an Ohio Heritage Fellowship in 2008.
In the newsletter
Wrote
- Katie Laur Speaks: “I Never Had Any Idea I Was Making a Statement Just by Enduring” (No. 16)
- A TRIBUTE TO TERRY BOSWELL: She Did Important Work as a Woman Instrumentalist in a Man's Game (No. 21)
- The Sound of Women's Voices (No. 27)