Laura Boosinger

The North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement will host acclaimed traditional Appalachian musician Laura Boosinger in concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. General admission tickets are $12 and will benefit the Blue Ridge Naturalist scholarship fund. Tickets are available for purchase at the Reuter Center on the UNC Asheville campus.

Boosinger is an award-winning performer whose primary focus is traditional Southern Appalachian music. She plays regularly at Asheville’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and around the region. Boosinger has also performed at the Tennessee Homecoming, Merlefest, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and in the British Isles to promote tourism in Western North Carolina. Her latest recording, “Let Me Linger,” is a collection of old-time tunes learned from Luke and Harold Smathers.

Blue Ridge Naturalist is a program of the N.C. Carolina Center for Creative Retirement and is open to adults of all ages. The program offers classes, field studies, and workshops designed to provide residents of Western North Carolina with an opportunity to learn more about the natural world and cultural heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

For more information about the Blue Ridge Naturalist Program or about the concert, call Jeanie Martin at the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement at 828/251-6198.