in her first heaven is a collection of recordings, songs, and stories about women musicians from Kentucky
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Blanche Coldiron
Dora Mae Wagers
Effie Pierson
Emma Lee Dickerson
Lella Todd
Lois Short
This website is primarily to tell the stories of six inspiring women I learned about, the spring of 2009, a project called "In her First Heaven-- stories of Kentucky women banjo and fiddle players." This project was made possible by a special fellowship from Berea College and its archives.
I am hard at work at many projects, but musically much of my focus is with Anna & Elizabeth, a duo, and we weave traditional Appalachian music with storytelling, original artwork, shadow puppetry & scrolling illustrations called CRANKIES.
Thanks for stoppin' by.
Comments
So glad to have found your site
I'm thrilled that there is a resource for learning about the wonderful women of traditional music. Keep it up!!