Hazel Dickens sitting with John Lilly - photo by Carl Fleischauer, Library of Congress folklife

John Lilly, editor of Goldenseal and a leading WV musician, will be introducing his long-time friend Hazel Dickens and presenting Mimi Pickering’s great film about her, “It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song”  at The Folk Alliance conference in Memphis. The film will be shown at 2 PM on Saturday followed by Lilly’s interview of Dickens.

Thanks to John, the WV premiere of the film took place in 2001 at The WV Filmmakers Film Festival in Sutton. It was also shown several years ago at The South Charleston Museum when Mimi Pickering came up from Appalshop to show it plus her film on the Bhopal Disaster, “Chemical Valley.” Recently, a clip of it was used at the inaugural reception for the new WV Music Hall of Fame. The DVD is available for only $25 from Appalshop.

John will also be performing on Saturday, Feb. 23 in the Memphis Room at 6:30 PM.

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