The Center for Folklore Studies mourns the loss of David Brose, 1951-2021 to cancer. David was a Columbus, Ohio, native. After an early introduction to American traditional music, he received a folklore studies-focused BA from Ohio State while pursuing an active old-time music teaching career at the (now long gone) Columbus Folk Music Center on High Street just north of campus. He maintained an active performing career throughout his life. David was the main person behind the Ohio Folklife Group, a loosely organized nonprofit organization that produced LPs of ethnographic recordings of Ohio folk music and occasional traditional music concerts on or near campus. In this capacity he worked closely with Pat Mullen, emeritus Professor of English/Folklore. After receiving an ethnomusicology MA from Indiana University, David worked as state folklorist in Iowa and Colorado and then, for many years beginning in the early 1990s, as a folklorist at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. He was a fieldworker at heart, and loved nothing better than documenting traditional music in the field and sharing it via radio and other media. A partial biography of David is available at https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/david-brose/.

A memoriam was also posted on the American Folklore Society website and the John C. Campbell Folk School.