BLOOMFIELD, Neb. -- A life of music belongs to Laurie Larson.

And she’s not stopping anytime soon.

“I've not quit, I keep going,” Larsen said. “And it seems like every time you feel like you're ready to retire, something happens that inspires you to keep going.”

Larsen first got into music watching her grandfather, a fiddler who played at barn dances for a barrel of whiskey. 

“That's my grandpa,” Larsen said. “And my grandpa played the fiddle for barn dances. I think a lot of his love for music. That's where it came from, was my grandpa August."

From there, Larsen started up an all female band. 

“We were called Patches and Friends, well Patches,” Larsen said. “And I met this girl. We were both having babies in March and we started playing 12 string guitar and patches grew from that.”

They played for more than 18 years before eventually splitting in 1999 due to family commitments. But the memories last forever like a fermata. 

“I mean she could rope you into things,” said Vivian Lackas, bandmate and bassist. “And then she goes, we need a bass, we need a base, and I go…I can’t read a note!”

Now being inducted into the Nebraska Rocks Hall of Fame, Lauries commitment to music is finally being recognized.

“The coolest thing about being in a band is all the people that you meet, and all the friendships that you make,” Larsen said. “Music is a wonderful therapy. Music is a universal language.”   

Seeing and performing on stages as big as The Ryman, Larsen now continues music with her own grandchildren. 

“I like to play with my grandma, because she taught me a lot of stuff,” Bailey Mlady said, Larsen’s granddaughter. “And I just loved doing music and singing with my grandma in church. And that just got me into music.”  

“You can have the worst day in the world, and you'll hear a song and it'll bring you back to a time that just makes you happy,” Larsen said. “And if I can do that to someone when we're out playing, that's great.”