Alice Gerrard
Alice Gerrard (born July 8, 1934) is a bluegrass and old-time singer, guitarist, banjo player, and songwriter. She was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in California, and was introduced to bluegrass and old-time music at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she enrolled in 1953. She and her first husband, Jeremy Foster, helped organize what are considered the first bluegrass concerts on a college campus, featuring the Osborne Brothers on March 5, 1960, and the Stanley Brothers that May. The couple settled in the Washington, D.C., area, where she began singing with Hazel Dickens. The duo, billed as Hazel & Alice, released Who's That Knocking? in 1965 and recorded four albums over the next decade. She married Mike Seeger in 1970, and the two formed the Strange Creek Singers with Dickens, Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier. She and Seeger separated in 1981. She later moved to Galax, Virginia, where she worked with fiddler Tommy Jarrell and co-produced the documentary Sprout Wings and Fly. She founded The Old-Time Herald magazine in 1987 and edited it for many years. She has also performed with the Harmony Sisters; with Tom Sauber and Brad Leftwich as Tom, Brad & Alice; and with fiddler Matokie Slaughter in the Back Creek Buddies. She released her first solo album, Pieces of My Heart, in the mid-1990s. Her album Follow the Music was nominated for the Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2015. She received the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001 and was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame with Hazel Dickens in 2017.
In the newsletter
- No. 3 April-June 1995
- No. 8 Summer 1996
- No. 11 Spring 1997
- No. 18 Winter 1999
- No. 28 January 2002
- No. 31 December 2002
- No. 32 April 2003
- No. 33 September 2003