Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice-Gerrard_Golden_byLibbyRodenbough-2 - Credit: Libby Rodenbough* A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an ...

“This is new territory for me,” remarked folk legend Alice Gerrard October 30 at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Gerrard was referring to her backing band for most of the show, which consisted of Megafaun ...

When we first meet old-time musician Alice Gerrard in the new, locally produced documentary You Gave Me a Song, which screens in Full Frame on Sunday, she’s giving us a tour of her crowded home office ...

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 ...

With their unique harmonies, the bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard blazed trails for female folk singers in the 1960s and ‘70s. They were also civil rights activists who used their ...

When Alice Gerrard waded into the back of a closet in her Durham, North Carolina, house, she discovered a box of long-forgotten items. That box led her to her latest album, and her show this Saturday ...

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 ...

In late September, the absence of Durham’s Alice Gerrard in downtown Raleighwhere the International Bluegrass Music Association had taken over the city center for five daysseemed like a conspicuous ...

Alice Gerrard performs “Mary Johnson,” a song from the era of her collaboration with Hazel Dickens. In her epic and prolific career, Alice Gerrard is perhaps still best known for the music she made ...

Alice Gerrard’s publicity people say that the bluegrass legend’s latest album was “sourced from Alice’s private archive,” which is a much nicer way of saying that Gerrard recently found it in the back ...

For 80 years, Alice Gerrard has studied, played and preserved American folk music, influencing countless musicians, including Emmylou Harris and Rhiannon Giddens. In addition to being one of the ...

It seems no matter how hard Alice Gerrard tries, she can’t seem to slow down. Gerrard, a Grammy-nominated bluegrass Hall of Fame musician, has a schedule with a dizzying blur of travel — teaching, ...