Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands - The Hazel and Alice Sessions (2016)

One of bluegrass music’s stalwarts is singer, songwriter and fiddle player Laurie Lewis, a main-stay among Bay Area musicians since the mid-1970s.

A lover of the hard-edged style of bluegrass music, she re-enforces that link with her up-coming album, The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple Music, SMM 1013), due to be released on January 21, 2016.

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard were each part of a pioneering bluegrass duo, two of the first prominent professional female artists in bluegrass, who paved the way for so many more.

In addition to the Right Hands (Tom Rozum – mandolin; Andrew Conklin – upright bass; Patrick Sauber [son of fiddle and banjo player Tom Sauber] – banjo and lead guitar; and Chad Manning – fiddle) the CD features young fiddle prodigy, Tatiana Hargreaves; songstresses Aoife O’Donovan, Alice Gerrard and Linda Ronstadt, as well as Mike Witcher – Dobro and Harley Eblen – bass vocals.