Saturday night, Triad Acoustic Stage brought Alice Gerrard to Greensboro for a grand evening of acoustic music. The event, photographed above, was held at Mack and Mack's clothing design house on South Elm Street. The venue makes you feel as if you are listening to music in someone's living room surrounded by all the clothing they are plannig to take on vacation. It gives you that old-timey feeling of when people would clear out a room or two in their house and host an old-time dance. You were close enough to the performers to be part of their impromptu jokes and could hear their comments to each other. Intimate and inviting.
Since the late 1950's, Americana music- especially bluegrass and old-time- has been a driving force in Alice Gerrard's life. Most of the people close to Alice were entrenched in the folk music scene of the 1960's and 1970's. During that time, Alice partnered with Hazel Dickens, performing and recording songs about coal mines, hard times, bittersweet aspects of life, and other reflective, soul searching themes. Sometimes a bit jazzy, sometimes bluesy; sometimes accompained and at others unaccompanied, Alice's performances are always special. In the above photo, she is featured with four other FABULOUS musicians, from left to right, Laurelyn Dossett, Scott Manring, Alice Gerrard, Carl Jones, and Elizabeth Bahnson.
sounds like a nice time!
Posted by: Tanya | Monday, July 01, 2013 at 12:38 PM