Alice Gerrard

In a career spanning 50+ years, Alice Gerrard has made an indelible mark on the history of traditional music. Alice’s groundbreaking collaboration with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s produced four classic LPs (recently reissued by Rounder) and influenced scores of young women singers. Her subsequent four solo albums—including Bittersweet, produced by Laurie Lewis, and Follow the Music ,produced by Mike Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger— further showcased Alice’s many talents: her compelling, eclectic songwriting; her powerful, hard-edged vocals; and her instrumental mastery on rhythm guitar, banjo, and old-time fiddle. Alice’s 2015 album, Follow the Music was nominated for a Grammy. Her most recent release, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes 1965-1969 on Free Dirt records, has found critical acclaim for its intimate peak into previously unheard Hazel and Alice practice tapes.

Alice has appeared on more than 20 recordings, including projects with many traditional musicians such as Tommy Jarrell, Enoch Rutherford, Otis Burris, Luther Davis and Matokie Slaughter; with Tom Sauber and Brad Leftwich as Tom, Brad & Alice, with the Harmony Sisters, the Herald Angels, Beverly Smith, and with Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle.

A tireless advocate of traditional music, Alice has won numerous honors, including an International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement Award, a Virginia Arts Commission Award, the North Carolina Folklore Society’s Tommy Jarrell Award, and an Indy Award. In 2017, Alice was inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame along with Hazel Dickens. In 1987, Alice founded The Old-Time Herald and the Old-Time Music Group, a non-profit organization that oversees its publication. Alice served as editor-in-chief of The Old-Time Herald from 1987 till 2003.

She continues to perform, teach and document and can be found often at the agility field with her beloved pit mix, Polly.

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Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Sing Me Back Home the DC Tapes 1965-69 — Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
*Sing Me Back Home the DC Tapes 1965-69*

Alice Gerrard & Kay Justice Tear Down the Fences — Alice Gerrard & Kay Justice
*Tear Down the Fences*

Piedmont Melody Makers Wonderful World Outside — Piedmont Melody Makers
*Wonderful World Outside*

Alice Gerrard Bittersweet — Alice Gerrard
*Bittersweet*

Alice Gerrard Follow the Music — Alice Gerrard
*Follow the Music*

Alice Gerrard and Beverly Smith The Cherry Tree — Alice Gerrard and Beverly Smith *The Cherry Tree*

Matokie Slaughter and The Back Buddies Saro — Matokie Slaughter
and The Back Buddies
*Saro*

Alice, Gail and Sharon The Road to Agate Hill — Alice, Gail and Sharon
*The Road to Agate Hill*

Alice Gerrard Calling Me Home, Songs of Love and Loss — Alice Gerrard *Calling Me Home, Songs of Love and Loss*

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Pioneering Women of Bluegrass — Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
Pioneering Women
of Bluegrass

Tom, Brad & Alice Carve That Possum — Tom, Brad & Alice
*Carve That Possum*

Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger Bowling Green — Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger
*Bowling Green*

Tom, Brad & Alice We'll Die in the Pig Pen Fighting — Tom, Brad & Alice
We'll Die in
the Pig Pen Fighting

Strange Creek Singers Strange Creek Singers — Strange Creek Singers
*Strange Creek Singers*

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Hazel & Alice — Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
*Hazel & Alice*