photo credit: Libby Rodenbough
Local Night @ The APP Theatre presents
Alice Gerrard & Friends
Joining Alice will be friends: Reed Stutz- mandolin, banjo, guitar, Riley Calcagno- fiddle, guitar, Dashawn Hickman - pedal steel, & Travis Stuart- bass and banjo
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. / Doors open at 7 p.m.
Regular Adult - $15/each* Student RUSH - $6/each* (students and children)
All Ages (children under 17 admitted with parent/legal guardian)
All Seating is Reserved.
*AppTheatre inclusive pricing combines fees, tax, and ticket value.
Old-time and bluegrass musician Alice Gerrard has championed traditional music for close to 60 years. Beginning with her trailblazing early duo recordings with Appalachian singer and activist Hazel Dickens, the 89-year-old’s Gerrard channels many modes of creative expression pulled from her unmatched archive of inspiration. “When you’ve been playing for as long as I have, you can start from scratch – using just the music you’ve heard over your life,” she says.
She cut her teeth in D.C. and Baltimore’s politically-informed folk revival and bluegrass scenes of the 1950s and 1960s and toured in the early post-Jim Crow South with the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Anne Romaine’s groundbreaking racially-integrated coalition of traditional musicians.
Alice Gerrard’s eclectic repertoire of songs and focus on community has drawn in devotees like Rhiannon Giddens (who in a recent New York Times retrospective of Gerrard’s career called her “inspiring as hell”), Le Tigre (who referenced Gerrard and Dickens by name in their dance-punk anthem “Hot Topic”), and Emmylou Harris (to her, Gerrard is “the real deal”). Inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2017, and the subject of the 2019 feature documentary You Gave Me a Song (The Groove Productions), there are few living artists who have touched so many parts of the bluegrass and old-time music world in the U.S, not to mention the greater tapestries of popular and folk music, as Alice Gerrard.
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