I’ve Endured: Women of Old-Time Music Exhibition

Exhibition On View: FRI JAN 3 – SAT MAR 1
Exhibition Opening: FRI JAN 3 | 6-9PM
Say, Sister! Opening Night Square Dance: FRI JAN 3 | 7PM $
Say, Sister! Festival Weekend: FRI JAN 10-11 $
I’ve Endured Artist Talk: SAT MAR 1

Creative Alliance is honored to host “I’ve Endured: Women of Old Time Music” an exhibition presented at Birthplace of Country Music Museum in 2023. Originally created by a women-led content team the exhibition spotlights commercial success stories and iconic musicians like Mother Maybelle and Sara Carter, Ola Belle Reed, Elizabeth Cotten, Lily May Ledford, Hazel Dickens, Etta Baker, and Alice Gerrard.

The exhibition also includes women who have impacted the genre in other ways, such as Audrey Hash Ham, Florence Reece, Helen White, Anne Romaine, and Bernice Johnson Reagon. By showcasing today’s torchbearers and innovators, the exhibit illuminates the ways that women are carrying the old-time genre forward and the work still to be done to open it up to other underrepresented communities. Women like Rhiannon Giddens, Martha Spencer, Carla Gover, Suzy Thompson, and Amythyst Kiah are but a few examples of students of old-time who are blazing new trails. The content development team interviewed dozens of contemporary female old-time musicians and industry professionals as part of the exhibit.

For the exhibitions arrival at Creative Alliance, a new festival has been curated to showcase many contemporary women who continue to honor and shift the world of old-time music. The Say, Sister! Festival begins on the opening night of the exhibition and continues for an additional weekend packed with performances, workshops, demonstrations, and more!

Listen to the music of Say Sister! Festival and “I’ve Endured” Exhibit in this Mixtape!