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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum Collection #70098, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum in March 2021 (Acc. 20210330.4).

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• Bluegrass music.
• Bluegrass musicians.
• Country music.
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk musicians.
• Folk songs, English.
• Grant Street (Musical group)
• Lewis, Laurie, 1950-
• Musicians.
• Rozum, Tom.
• Women bluegrass musicians.
• Women musicians.

• Alice Gerrard Collection (#20006)

Laurie Lewis, a white bluegrass singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and record label owner, has released records for Rounder Records, Flying Fish, and her own record label, Spruce and Maple. She is a pioneering woman in bluegrass music and a frequent collaborator with Kathy Kallick, Linda Ronstandt, and Alice Gerrard. She is a two-time championship fiddler, IBMA award winner for Song of the Year "Who Will Watch the Homeplace" (1994) and Female Vocalist of the Year (1992, 1994) and Grammy nominee with Tom Rozum for Best Traditional Folk Album (1996). Lewis was also the director of Bluegrass Week workshop at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, W.Va. for ten years (1986-1996). Tom Rozum is a white multi-instrumentalist, who primarily plays the mandolin, but also plays the fiddle, mandola, and guitar. He joined Laurie Lewis as part of the original Grant Street Band in 1986. A long-time fixture of the Bay-area music scene, Rozum is known for The Oak and the Laurel (1995), his Grammy-nominated album of duets with Laurie Lewis and his solo album Jubilee (1998).

The personal collection of Laurie Lewis, a white bluegrass singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and record label owner, and Tom Rozum, a white bluegrass musician. Materials consist of audio and video recordings, photographic materials, computer discs, correspondence, promotional materials, festival files, scrapbooks, and ephemera related to Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum's music career and published recordings, both as solo artists and as collaborators. Photographs consist of photo albums, promotional portraits, contact sheets, snapshots, and 35mm photographic slides, while ephemera includes backstage passes, festival buttons, and a Grammy medallion, among other materials. Video recordings consist mostly of music videos, television appearances, and performance footage, while audio recordings include ADAT and open reel studio masters, audiocassette recordings of live performances, and private issue releases compiled by Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum.

The collection includes materials related to the following published recordings or albums: Laurie Lewis & Grant Street, Grant Street String Band (1983); Laurie Lewis, Restless Rambling Heart (1986); Laurie Lewis, True Stories (1993), Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, The Oak and the Laurel (1995), Laurie Lewis, Earth and Sky: Songs of Laurie Lewis (1997), Laurie Lewis, Seeing Things (1998), Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, Winter’s Grace (1999), Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals (1999), Tom Rozum, Jubilee (1998); and Charles Sawtelle, Music from Rancho DeVille (2001).

• Audiocassettes (FS-70098/1-46)
• Audiotape (FT-70098/1-9)
• Audiovisual boxes 1-12