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 ...

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 ...

Hazel Jane Dickens was a folksinger and activist born in 1935. She sang pro-union and feminist songs way before it was fashionable. Advertisement Article continues below this ad She sang anthems of ...

With their unique harmonies, the bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard blazed trails for female folk singers in the 1960s and ‘70s. They were also civil rights activists who used their ...

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 ...

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 ...