Trailblazing female bluegrass singer-guitarist Hazel Dickens died April 22 in Washington, D.C., of complications from pneumonia. She was 75. Daughter of a large West Virginia coal-mining family, ...

He works in mysterious ways.

PIPESTEM, WV (WVNS) – One of the most important names in the state’s musical history is being recognized this weekend as Hazel Dickens is set to be inducted into the West Virginia Hall of Fame at ...

Tamarack will dedicate an evening to folk and bluegrass singer, Hazel Dickens, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3. Dickens passed away at the age of 75 due to complications of pneumonia in April, ...

So one by one we all left home to change our way of life. . . . You gave me a song of a place that I call home A song of now, a song of then, a song of yet to come. —“You Gave Me a Song” (words and ...

Hazel Dickens was still in her teens when her family moved from Mercer County, West Virginia, to Baltimore in 1954. In this unlikely locale, one of the most important singers in bluegrass and ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival team, along with the entire Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, mourns the April 2011 passing of Hazel Dickens, a revered songwriter and singer in country and ...

"Civilization is spread more by singing than anything else," Woody Guthrie once wrote, "because whole big bunches can sing a particular song where not every man can join in on the conversation." A ...

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 ...