So one by one we all left home to change our way of life. . . . You gave me a song of a place that I call home A song of now, a song of then, a song of yet to come. —“You Gave Me a Song” (words and ...

Alice Gerrard’s “No Never No” is based on a song she found in a songbook at a thrift shop. Alice Gerrard plays “No Never No,” which is based on a tune she found in a songbook at a thrift shop. She and ...

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard were steeped in folk, bluegrass,, a, d country tradition when they released their first album in 1965. Between the duo’s commanding approach to the music and their ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This fall, Folkways reissued the first two LPs by the groundbreaking bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. In celebration of these ...

Folk legend Alice Gerrard performs songs from communities that have inspired her. For 80 years, Alice Gerrard has studied, played and preserved American folk music, influencing countless musicians, ...

Alice Gerrard has been a musician, researcher, publisher, and advocate for old-time music for much of her life. She's best known for performing and recording bluegrass and country with West Virginian, ...

UPDATE: Due to circumstance’s beyond the artist’s control, Leyla McCalla will not be able to perform on June 24. Alice Gerrard will play an extended set. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings co-presents an ...

The Blue Ridge Music Center will present two concerts in its fall series celebrating folk and old-time music icons Willard Gayheart and Alice Gerrard in October in the indoor theater.