Hazel Dickens, of course, is the musical coal mining country “mountain girl” who’s broken more than one mold in her remarkable lifetime. Not content just to cry in the holler, stick to safe topics or ...

The second annual Fly Away Home Fest is coming to Princeton at the end of May 2026. The festival celebrates the life and ...

This is FRESH AIR. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard each had a successful folk music career before they started recording together the country and bluegrass music they loved. Emmylou Harris, Rosanne ...

Musician Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1935-April 22, 2011) was born in Mercer County, the eighth of 11 children. She was a pioneering old-time and bluegrass musician, known for preserving the traditional ...

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard were steeped in folk, bluegrass,, a, d country tradition when they released their first album in 1965. Between the duo’s commanding approach to the music and their ...

To hear Alice Gerrard tell it, when she and her musical partner Hazel Dickens began singing together in the 1960s, they never imagined the revolutionary Hall-of-Fame career they were setting in motion ...

Alice Gerrard has been a musician, researcher, publisher, and advocate for old-time music for much of her life. She's best known for performing and recording bluegrass and country with West Virginian, ...

A biographical documentary about the life Hazel Dickens profiling a modern woman dealing with contemporary issues from a feminist perspective that is the product of her experiences being Appalachian, ...

Hazel Jane Dickens was a folksinger and activist born in 1935. She sang pro-union and feminist songs way before it was fashionable. Advertisement Article continues below this ad She sang anthems of ...

Hazel Dickens, a troubadour of hard times whose raw, heartfelt songs about coal miners and the life of the downtrodden made her a revered figure in country and bluegrass music, died April 22 at the ...

They're separated by four decades of age and several degrees of exposure to the music business, but at this rare Gotham summit, Appalachian products Hazel Dickens and Will Oldham came across as ...

Dickens and Gerrard were successful solo folk musicians who also shared an eclectic approach to music. A new album of previously unreleased recordings feature the pair "unvarnished" and "unplugged." ...