Elizabeth LaPrelle

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Elizabeth LaPrelle is an Appalachian ballad singer and banjo player from Rural Retreat in Smyth County, Virginia, celebrated for her powerful, authentic mountain voice. She has been performing traditional ballads and old-time songs and winning fiddlers' convention prizes since she was eleven, and studied Southern Appalachian traditional performance at the College of William & Mary. At sixteen she became the first recipient of the Library of Congress's Henry Reed Award, and she has performed extensively as half of the duo Anna & Elizabeth with Anna Roberts-Gevalt

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