Alice Gerrard

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Alice Gerrard
Born (1934-07-08) July 8, 1934 (age 91)
Seattle, Washington
Genres Bluegrass, folk music
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, fiddle, banjo
Labels Rounder Records, Folkways
Website alicegerrard.com

Alice Gerrard (born July 8, 1934) is an American bluegrass and old-time music performer, writer, editor and teacher. As a singer who plays guitar, fiddle and banjo, she performed and recorded solo and in ensembles, notably in a duo with Hazel Dickens.

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In the 2020s, she has continued to perform and record, was the subject of a documentary film by Kenny Dalsheimer, You Gave Me a Song, and has been a frequent staff member at the Augusta Heritage Center in West Virginia, the Port Townsend, Washington Festival of American Fiddle Tunes [1] and other summer music camps and festivals across the United States. 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. [2] Gerrard was married to Jeremy Foster who died in a car accident in 1964. [3] She had four children with him. She was later married to Mike Seeger and recorded two albums with him. They recorded two albums except the Strange Creek Singers album. The other Strange Creek Singers members were Hazel Dickens, Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier. Alice Gerrard and Virgie Worrell Richardson were in Matokie Slaughter’s group, the Back Creek Buddies.

Gerrard 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. [4]

She founded and was editor-in-chief of The Old Time Herald magazine from 1987 to 2000. [5]

Discography

Alice Gerrard

With Hazel Dickens

With Mike Seeger

Strange Creek Singers

Matokie Slaughter and the Back Creek Buddies

Tom, Brad & Alice

With Gail Gillespie and Sharon Sandomirsky

With Andy Cahan

Compilations

Books

Films

Other

Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic." [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Fiddle Tunes".
  2. ↑ "Alice Gerrard Bio - Alice Gerrard Career". CMT Artists. Archived from the original on June 8, 2004. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  3. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/music/alice-gerrard-pioneering-women-of-bluegrass.html
  4. ↑ "Southern Folklife Collection". Lib.unc.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Website http://oldtimeherald.org
  6. ↑ "FolkStreams » Homemade American Music". Folkstreams.net. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  7. ↑ McRobbie, Josephine (April 3, 2019). "Full Frame: Everything Old Is New Again with Folk-Revival Player and Chronicler Alice Gerrard". Independent Weekly/Indy Week.
  8. ↑ Oler, Tammy (October 31, 2019). "57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song". Slate Magazine.
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