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American bluegrass singer, banjoist, and guitar player (born 1934)
Musical artist
Alice Gerrard (born July 8, 1934) is an American
bluegrass singer,
banjoist , fiddler, and
guitar player . She performed as part of a duo with
Hazel Dickens , and as part of The Strange Creek Singers (with Dickens,
Mike Seeger , Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier) and The Back Creek Buddies (with
Matokie Slaughter ).
Gerrard was born in
Seattle, Washington . Her mother was from Yakima, Washington, and her father from Wigan in England. Gerrard attended
Antioch College , where she was exposed to folk music. After college, she moved to
Washington, D.C. , and became part of the thriving bluegrass scene there.
[1] Gerrard was married to Jeremy Foster who later died in a car accident. She had four children with him. She was later married to
Mike Seeger and recorded two albums with him.
Garrard was inducted into the
Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2017.
The Alice Gerrard Collection (1954–2000) is located in the
Southern Folklife Collection of the Wilson Library of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
[2]
She founded and was editor-in-chief of The Old Time Herald from 1987 to 2000.
Discography
Alice Gerrard
1994 – Pieces of My Heart (
Copper Creek Records )
2002 – Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss (Copper Creek Records)
2013 – Bittersweet (Spruce And Maple)
2014 – Follow the Music (
Tompkins Square )
2023 - Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat)
With Hazel Dickens
1965 – Who's That Knocking (Folkways LP)
1973 – Hazel & Alice (Rounder LP)
1973 – Won't You Come & Sing for Me (Folkways LP)
1976 – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder LP)
1996 – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (
Smithsonian Folkways )
2018 – Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 (
Free Dirt Records )
With Mike Seeger
1970 – Mike and Alice Seeger Live in Japan (King LP)
1980 – Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger [reissued in its entirety on Bowling Green CD, 2008]
Tom, Brad & Alice
1998 – Been There Still
2000 – Holly Ding
2001 – We'll Die in the Pig Pen Fighting
2005 – Carve That Possum
With Gail Gillespie and Sharon Sandomirsky
2007 – The Road to Agate Hill: Music from Southwest Virginia and Beyond
Compilations
1979 –
Elizabeth Cotten , Volume 3: When I'm Gone (
Folkways Records )
1997 – Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952–967 (Smithsonian Folkways)
2001 – There is No Eye: Music for Photographs (Smithsonian Folkways)
2002 – Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)
2002 – Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)
2005 – Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)
Films
Homemade American Music Directed by Yasha Aginsky, Carrie Aginsky. Copyright: 1980.
[3]
Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (2001). Directed by Mimi Pickering.
Whitesburg, Kentucky : Appalshop.
You Gave Me a Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard (2019). Directed by Kenny Dalsheimer.
Durham, North Carolina : The Groove Productions.
[4]
Other
Her name appears in the lyrics of the
Le Tigre song "
Hot Topic ."
[5]
References
External links
1991-2000 inductees 2001-2010 inductees 2011-2020 inductees 2021-2030 inductees Related articles
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