Southern Songbirds: Alice Gerrard and Friends

Schedule

Sun Dec 11 2022 at 03:00 pm

Location

North Carolina Museum of History | Raleigh, NC

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The North Carolina Museum of History announces a special concert series in conjunction with the traveling exhibition The Power of Women in Country Music, coming to us from the GRAMMY Museum® in Los Angeles in October!
The exhibition is punctuated by our Southern Songbirds concert series. On December 11, Alice Gerrard will join us with special guests for a screening of her biopic, You Gave Me a Song, followed by a short performance and Q&A with the artist. Alice is joined by Tatiana Hargreaves and Dashawn Hickman. This event will be emceed by legendary North Carolina native Jim Lauderdale.
A singer and songwriter, Alice had recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and 1970s that influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Her songs have been recorded by Kathy Mattea, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Tatiana Hargreaves and Allison de Groot, and Rhiannon Giddens, among others. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, Alice was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2017.
In 1987 she founded the Old-Time Herald (music) magazine and edited it until 2003. It continues under the leadership of Sarah Bryan. A tireless advocate for traditional music, Alice has documented, photographed, and worked with traditional musicians over many years, as well as recorded on many collaborations and on her own solo projects. A documentary film about Alice, You Gave Me a Song, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2019.
At any given time, you’re likely to find Jim Lauderdale making music, whether he’s laying down a new track in the studio or working through a spontaneous melody at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. And if he’s not actively crafting new music, he’s certainly thinking about it. “It’s a constant challenge to try to keep making better and better records, write better and better songs. I still always feel like I’m a developing artist,” he says. This may be a surprising sentiment from a man who’s won two Grammys, released 34 full-length albums, and taken home the Americana Music Association’s coveted Wagonmaster Award. But the forthcoming album Game Changer is convincing evidence that the North Carolina native is only continuing to hone his craft.
Operating under his own label, Sky Crunch Records, for the first time since 2016, Lauderdale recorded Game Changer at the renowned Blackbird Studios in Nashville, co-producing the release with Jay Weaver and pulling from songs he’d written over the last several years. “There’s a mixture on this record of uplifting songs and, at the same time, songs of heartbreak and despair—because that’s part of life, as well,” he says. “In the country song world especially, that’s always been part of it. That’s real life.”
Lauderdale would know: He’s been a vital part of the country music ecosystem since 1991, when he released his debut album and began penning songs for an impressively long roster of country music greats. “When I was a teenager wanting to be a bluegrass banjo player, I never would have imagined that I would get to work with people like Ralph Stanley and Robert Hunter and George Jones and Elvis Costello and John Oates,” he muses. “Getting to work with them inspires me greatly to this day, and I know it always will.”
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North Carolina Museum of History, 5 E Edenton St, Raleigh, United States

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