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Summer 2010
Grassroots Music from the United States
  • West Virginia, My Home by Hazel Dickens at 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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    "West Virginia, My Home" by Hazel Dickens at 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    Hazel Dickens, an accomplished bluegrass artist, performs "West Virginia, My Home". Hazel Dickens became an accomplished bluegrass performer at a time when the genre was dominated by men. She is also an admired advocate for women's and worker's rights. Along with fellow musician and friend Alice Gerrard, she empowered countless female singers and musicians to succeed without sacrificing integrity. In this performance, Dickens, herself the eighth of eleven children born to a West Virginia mining family, pays homage to her home state.

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Published June 2010

  • Folkways Magazine is produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

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  • Barry Lee Pearson

 

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