The 89-year-old songwriter and former Hazel & Alice singer releases her first album in nearly a decade and makes a rare return to the national stage
At 89, Alice Gerrard remains a beacon of creativity in folk and bluegrass, which she proves on her new album 'Sun to Sun.'“Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event.
“People will occasionally ask me to play somewhere, and they bring me out on stage and people are like, ‘Yeah!’” says Gerrard. “And I’m still kind of like, ‘What the hell is going on here?’” In her seventies and eighties, Gerrard has served as a source of local inspiration and tutelage for an entire new generation of North Carolina-associated musicians, including Rhiannon Giddens,, Phil Cook, and the fiddle virtuoso and scholar Tatiana Hargreaves.
Gerrard’s two latest projects — her outward-looking album, which tells the tales of the marginalized and pays tribute to fallen heroes; and her book, which focuses more on preserving lost histories than on her own story — both speak to the singer’s unending selflessness and generosity of spirit. Throughout her career, Gerrard has offered her knowledge of roots traditions to anyone willing to listen — always eager to shine the spotlight elsewhere.
“It leaves you with this well of sadness somewhere inside of you,” says Gerrard, “and it’s always with you in some way or another.”
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