Alice Gerrard

International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame member and Grammy nominee Alice Gerrard's new Sleepy Cat Records album, Sun To Sun, is clearly meant to appeal to both purists and newbies alike. Having spent nearly sixty years as a staunch champion

Alice Gerrard - photo © Libby Rodenbough Alice Gerrard has spent her entire adult life dedicated to bluegrass and old time music, both within the tradition that came before her, and contributing a raft of new material to that same register.

New, previously-unreleased tracks from the dynamic bluegrass and old-time duo Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard are set for release later this year on Free Dirt Records. Today it is announced that Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 will

2017 has been an excellent year for Alice Gerrard. The most significant aspect is her induction in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the late Hazel Dickens into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Hazel and Alice were a pioneering female duo

Alice Gerrard's is a name spoken frequently when discussing bluegrass over the past 50 years. She is viewed as a pioneer for women in old time and mountain music at a time when it was far less common professionally than

The good folks with the Great Smoky Mountains Association have released a video preview of their third and most recent album of the traditional mountain music of the region. On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old Time Smoky Mountain Music includes

One of bluegrass music’s stalwarts is singer, songwriter and fiddle player Laurie Lewis, a main-stay among Bay Area musicians since the mid-1970s. A lover of the hard-edged style of bluegrass music, she re-enforces that link with her up-coming album, The Hazel

This profile of and interview with Alice Gerrard is a contribution from noted bluegrass songwriter, Louisa Branscomb, who also reviewed Gerrard's current release, Bittersweet, for Bluegrass Today. You can find out more about her music and songwriting clinics online. What's the Kitchen Got

This review is a contribution from Louisa Branscomb, one of bluegrass music's most prolific and celebrated songwriters. Do the math: a legendary singer-songwriter singing her own, plus a producer who understands the impressive scope of the material and how to render

Here's another new feature, where we ask bluegrass personalities to choose their top five Gospel songs. This week we hear from Peter Thompson, host of Bluegrass Signal on KALW. The five I've chosen are all from the wonderful world of bluegrass,