Join us for this reading and talk with a t railblazing musician\, Alice Gerrard!
\nAlice Gerrard\, an award-win ning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years\, is one of the notable few women in a heavily male genre. Custom Made Woman tells Gerrard&rsquo\;s story through the music\, the folk festivals\, the kids\, and the relationships&mdash\;both personal and professional&mdash\ ;that defined her storied life and career. Her collaborations with Appalac hian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and 1970s were pivotal recordin gs during the decades after the American folk music boom of the midcentury \; the duo produced four albums that have recently been rereleased by Roun der Records and Smithsonian Folkways. In addition to Dickens\, Gerrard has worked with folks like Tommy Jarrell\, Enoch Rutherford\, Otis Burris\, L uther Davis\, and Matokie Slaughter\, and founded The Old-Time Herald\, ba sed in Durham\, North Carolina\, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1987 until 2003.
\nShe&rsquo\;s also a lifelong documentarian of the folk ways scene\, and this book features nearly 100 rare photos&mdash\;many nev er before seen&mdash\;of key musicians\, including Doc Watson\, Bill Monro e\, Hazel Dickens\, Elizabeth Cotten\, Mike Seeger\, and more. In telling the story of her time as a player of traditional music\, Gerrard gives us a deeply personal way to understand and appreciate a quintessentially Amer ican genre that has a long history and thrives to this day.
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