Your Instructors
This year’s camp features an incredible group of mentors, each bringing years of expertise, touring, mentoring, and a passion for bluegrass music:
🎵 Lauren Price – Mandolin
🎻 Laura Orshaw – Fiddle
🎶 Beth Lawrence – Bass
🎸 Jen Larson – Guitar
🎸 Rebecca Frazier – Guitar
Lauren Price (Mandolin, Vocal) Lauren holds the role of co-founder, mandolinist, and vocalist with The Price Sisters band – most of her professional work in the music industry comes from within that position. While still in college, Lauren and Leanna signed with Rebel Records, released an EP, and subsequently began touring as The Price Sisters. The Sisters’ released their first full-length album for Rebel, “A Heart Never Knows,” in spring of 2018. Fronted by Lauren and Leanna, The Price Sisters five-piece band to-date has performed at numerous venues and festivals across the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Lauren has been an instructor at the Monroe Mandolin Camp, the DelFest Academy, Camp Bluegrass, Mandolin Camp North, Augusta Bluegrass Week, the Bobby Osborne Mandolin Roundup, Bean Blossom Bluegrass Bootcamp, and workshop-leader at various festivals where The Price Sisters have performed. In 2024, Lauren was selected as a Master Artist through the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Folklife Program where she mentored an apprentice in Bill Monroe style mandolin playing. She has also hosted or been a guest on several virtual mandolin workshops including work for the Louisville Folk School. Lauren has worked as an artist-in-residence with the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum and in June of 2019, was featured for an interview on Mandolin Cafe. In 2019, she was nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) Momentum Vocalist of the Year, in addition to The Price Sisters’ band nomination for Momentum Band of the Year (2019 & 2024,) and in 2020 was nominated for Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year. In spring of 2024, Lauren, Leanna, and their band released a debut album on McCoury Music titled “Between the Lines,” and debuted as a guest act on the Grand Ole Opry.
Laura Orshaw (Fiddle, Vocal) GRAMMY nominated fiddler and vocalist Laura Orshaw has toured throughout North America and Europe with Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. In 2020 Laura won in two categories at the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards Show, and in 2019, the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) named Laura the Fiddle Performer of the Year, making her the first woman to win the award. In 2021, Laura signed as a solo artist with Dark Shadow Recording and her debut album out in 2022 has already received significant attention and airplay. Laura has performed with Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, John Scofield, Mike Compton, Sarah Jarosz, Tony Trischka, Becky Buller, and Darol Anger among others. Her music has been featured on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction, and in Bluegrass Today, No Depression, Sing Out!, and Dirty Linen. According to Bluegrass Unlimited, “Laura Orshaw has firmly established herself as a significant emerging artist in the arena of traditional American music… [she is] an extremely talented musician with unlimited potential.” Laura is also a highly sought-after instructor who has taught numerous camps, workshops and kids’ academies, and started teaching weekly lessons to adults when she was just 12 years old.
Beth Lawrence (Bass, Vocal) was born and raised in southern Wisconsin town of Kenosha. From early age, performed with her family’s band, “The Lawrence Family,” Her musical interests led her to attend the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, where she pursued a degree in choir directing and voice. In 1998, relocated to Johnson City, Tennessee where she became a part of the respected bluegrass program at ETSU. In the next few years, she spent a lot of time in the East Tennessee area, where she played with many bands including The Steven’s Sisters, The Jim Hurst Band, The Gene Britt Band, and the house band for Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede. Beth has been playing with The Mark Newton Band since October of 2003 and currently makes her home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jen Larson (Guitar, Vocal) Jen is a Nashville-based vocalist who draws deeply from the early country and bluegrass catalogs. She has garnered critical praise and national airplay for her work with the former bluegrass band Straight Drive, and she’s performed widely at regional and national festivals and concerts including the Wheeling Jamboree, Carnegie Hall, and Town Hall on several live broadcasts of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. In 2014 Jen released her first solo EP recording, Burning House, produced by the Grammy-nominated NYC bluegrass artist, Michael Daves. Jen has also led festival workshops and taught at music camps on the subjectbluegrass lead and harmony singing, as well as having contributed vocal tracks to Daves’ ArtistWorks “Bluegrass Vocals” online curriculum. In addition to her performances and teaching, Jen is an independent archivist and historian with expertise in the history of bluegrass and country music. She is currently working on a biography of Hazel Dickens.
Rebecca Frazier (Guitar, Vocal) began performing professionally in Telluride, Colorado, in the late 90’s. Frazier came to national attention in 2006 as the first woman on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and after moving to Nashville in 2007, she was recognized as “a genuine triple threat as a singer, songwriter, and flatpicking guitarist” by The Nashville Scene. The Virginia native was later picked up by Compass Records for her flatpicking/songwriting solo showcase When We Fall, which was called “the best bluegrass album of 2013” by Henry Carrigan of The Bluegrass Situation. In 2018, Frazier became the first woman to be nominated for SPBGMA Guitar Performer of the Year and was nominated again in 2019. Paste Magazine deemed Frazier one of “Seven Women Smashing the Bluegrass Glass Ceiling” in 2017. Other honors include Frazier’s featured appearance singing and playing “Keep on the Sunnyside” on Hank Williams’ biopic, the 20th Century Fox The Last Ride movie soundtrack released by Curb Records in 2012, and Frazier’s 2009 IBMA Recorded Event of the Year award for her work on the Daughters of Bluegrass’ Bluegrass Bouquet. Frazier is a founding member of Hit & Run, the first and only band to win all three high-profile bluegrass band contests—Telluride (2003), Rockygrass (2002), and SPBGMA (2005) Festival Competitions. Dubbed “East Nashville real deal bluegrass” by journalist Craig Havighurst, the band has toured throughout 41 states and Canada since 2002 and has performed as Rebecca Frazier and Hit & Run since 2013. Frazier earned a B.A. in Music from the University of Michigan and studied guitar at Berklee College of Music. She has taught workshops across the U.S. and Canada since 2005, and was on staff at Nashville Music Academy from 2008 to 2021.