Adam Booth
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Biography
Adam Booth is the 2022 West Virginia Governor’s Arts Awards Folk Artist of the Year. His original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia. His career highlights from 2025 included being the featured keynote presenter at the Sydney Australia International Storytelling Conference, being a featured artist for the fourth time at the US National Storytelling Festival, and having his original multidisciplinary program The Heron’s Journey featured on the 2024-2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster.
As a nationally touring artist, Booth’s professional telling appearances include premiere storytelling and arts events across the United States, such as the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, Teller-In-Residence at the International Storytelling Center (four times), the National Academy of Sciences, and a commission from the National Academy of Medicine. He was a resident at the Banff Centre Spoken Word program in Alberta, Canada.
Education is an important part of Booth’s storytelling practice. He has taught classes and given presentations at Ghost Ranch, John C. Campbell Folk School, the National Storytelling Conference, the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Berea Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Voices from the Misty Mountains summer seminars and institute.
adam@adam-booth.com
About Adam Booth
Adam Booth travels the country sharing original and traditional Appalachian stories. As a professional teller for over twenty years, Adam has told tales at major festivals and intimate house gatherings, with a repertoire that includes historical fiction, tall tales, ghost stories, witchlore, and fairy tales. His voice, both humorous and touching, is influenced by generations of diverse storytellers from West Virginia. He has also apprenticed with internationally-recognized storytellers, including Dovie Thomason and Elizabeth Ellis. In addition to creating and researching stories, Adam dedicates time to educate people of all ages about story crafting and story history, offering classes at universities, folk art schools, public schools, and private workshops.
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