Alice Gerrard

Alice Gerrard

Alice Gerrard is an American bluegrass singer. She performed in a duo with Hazel Dickens and as part of The Back Creek Buddies with Matokie Slaughter.

Gerrard attended Antioch College and was once married to Mike Seeger.

The Alice Gerrard Collection (1954-2000) is located in the Manuscripts Department of the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Discography

With Hazel Dickens

*1965 - "Who's That Knocking"
*1973 - "Won't You Come & Sing for Me"

Films

*"Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song" (2001). Directed by Mimi Pickering. Whitesburg, Kentucky: Appalshop.

External links

* [http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/gerrard_alice/bio.jhtml Alice Gerrard biography]
* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Gerrard,Alice.html Inventory of the Alice Gerrard Collection, 1954-2000] , in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill


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