Louise Mosrie Coombe

Louise Mosrie Coombe grew up riding horses and writing poetry on a cattle farm in McEwen, Tennessee. She began writing songs after college, while working in TV/radio in Knoxville. In 2004, she moved back to the Nashville area and began co-writing with country, bluegrass, and folk artists and writers. Louise had a major creative breakthrough in 2007 when she had a fortuitous co-writing session with famed Americana producer and writer, Ray Kennedy--they wrote the song Doubling Back for a documentary film called My Vietnam, Your Iraq which was broadcast nationwide on PBS.

Louise started writing songs about the South--what she knew and where she grew up. In 2008, she began working on a new album, eventually to be called Home because she’d come full circle in her voice as a writer. The album was a mix of bluegrass, country and folk, and as she weaved in lush stories and songs about southern life, she was even introduced once as “William Faulkner with a guitar.” She entered some contests with those songs, and won top awards at the Kerrville Folk, Wildflower! Arts & Music, Telluride Bluegrass, and Falcon Ridge Folk festivals. Home debuted at #1 on the Folk DJ charts in January 2010 and became one of the charts’ most played albums that year.

Buoyed by her earnest fans, Louise began touring all over the Eastern seaboard, the South, and Texas. Audiences enjoyed the stories between the songs as much as the songs, and her strong expressive voice was described as “…like listening to Patty Griffin and Susan Tedeschi at the same time.” She’s played at The Bluebird Café in Nashville, Club Passim in Boston, Caffé Lena in NY and was just recently invited to play at The Birchmere in Washington DC.

In 2012, her 15-year marriage ended and her mother was diagnosed with and succumbed within six months to brain cancer. Out of those dark days came some new songs that would eventually be recorded on her newest release Lay It Down, ten songs of love, loss and surrender. Lay It Down was released in 2014 and landed on several "Best of" lists. Louise is always writing new songs.

"Louise Mosrie Coombe's voice is a gift from the gods, and how she uses it is a gift to us." --Christine Lavin

"Louise Mosrie may well be the brightest young folk-oriented artist to emerge from Nashville in many a year." --Rich Warren, WFMT, Chicago

“Mosrie’s compositions are thoughtful, refined creations.” – Maverick Magazine

https://louisemosrie.com/home

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

This project is made possible with funds from the Tier Three Project Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of the County Executive and administered by CNY Arts.

  ~ This project is also made possible through the support and generosity of our Folkus members. ~