Alice Gerrard

Alice Gerrard (born July 8, 1934) is an American bluegrass singer, banjoist, and guitar player. She performed in 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).

Alice Gerrard
BornJuly 8, 1934
Seattle, Washington
GenresBluegrass, folk music
InstrumentsVocals, guitar
LabelsRounder Records, Folkways
Associated actsHazel Dickens, Mike Seeger

Gerrard was born 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 died in a car accident. She had four children with him. She was later married to Mike Seeger and recorded two albums with him.

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)

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, 1952-1967 (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
  1. "Alice Gerrard Bio - Alice Gerrard Career". CMT Artists. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  2. "Southern Folklife Collection". Lib.unc.edu. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  3. "FolkStreams » Homemade American Music". Folkstreams.net. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  4. McRobbie, Josephine (April 3, 2019). "Full Frame: Everything Old Is New Again with Folk-Revival Player and Chronicler Alice Gerrard". Independent Weekly/Indy Week.
  5. Oler, Tammy (October 31, 2019). "57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song". Slate Magazine.
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