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Women In Traditional Music Online Workshop with Alice Gerrard
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Alice Gerrard
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Class
Cost:
Suggested donation of $15.00

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Description:
The Handmade Music School at The Floyd Country Store presents the "Women In Traditional Music" Online Workshop with Alice Gerrard on Saturday, June 20, 2020.

Women have always sung and played traditional music: music that grew and flourished in traditional communities since the beginning of time. Although often unrecognized and often oppressed, these women played a vital part in preserving and in advancing musical traditions, and they insisted on being heard.

This presentation will show, in photos, audio, and video some of these women and the communities in which they lived and from which they drew their strength. Many of them had a profound influence on me.

Alice Gerrard is a Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. Simply put, Alice Gerrard is a talent of legendary status. In a career spanning some 50 years, she has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats and has in turn earned worldwide respect for her own important contributions to the music.

Alice has appeared on more than 20 recordings, including projects with many traditional musicians such as Tommy Jarrell, Enoch Rutherford, Otis Burris, Luther Davis and Matokie Slaughter; with Tom Sauber and Brad Leftwich as Tom, Brad & Alice, with the Harmony Sisters, the Herald Angels, Beverly Smith, and with Anna R-g and Elizabeth LaPrelle. With her in-depth knowledge of mountain music, she has produced or written liner notes for a dozen more. She also co-produced and appeared in two documentary films.

Alice is particularly known for her groundbreaking collaboration with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s. The duo influenced scores of young women singers — even The Judds acknowledge Hazel and Alice as an important early inspiration.

Link: http://www.alicegerrard.com/

The workshop will be presented online via Crowdcast. The suggested donation is $15.00 however any donation is appreciated.

To register, visit: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pretty-good-for-a-girl/register.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/news/handmade-at-home-online-learning-series or https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/women-in-traditional-music-with-alice-gerrard-2020-06-20 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.