Grace Rogers is a musician, poet, and essayist from Owingsville, KY. She grew up in the eastern Kentucky traditional music community and has been playing music and writing songs since childhood. She moved to Louisville in 2017. From June 2022-June 2023, she was the Charlie Whitaker Memorial Apprentice under east Kentucky banjo player John Haywood. She is also a 2023/24 archival fellow at the Berea College studying the banjo music of Magoffin County, KY. Grace performs her original music and also collaborates with various musicians including Blakeley Burger and Nadia Ramlagan. She has served as a music and poetry educator at various organizations such as  the Louisville Folk School, Cowan Creek Mountain Music School, and the Louisville Free Public Library. 

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