GERRARD (FOSTER), ALICE (1934-)

Alice Gerrard is well-known nationally as one-half of the duo Hazel and Alice, as a member of the Strange Creek Singers and the Harmony Sisters, as a solo performer, and as the editor of the Old-Time Herald for sixteen years. Her connection to the Dayton area dates to her college career at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, where she and her late husband Jeremy Foster organized the first bluegrass concert on a college campus when they brought in the Osborne Brothers on March 5, 1960. She received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the IBMA in 2001.