Grace Bernadette Griffith was a folk and Celtic singer based in Washington, DC She has been honored with multiple Wammie awards by the Washington Area Music Association.
17 Facts About Grace Griffith
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Grace Griffith was raised in a family of ten children on a small farm in Southern Maryland.
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In 1993 as a solo artist Grace Griffith released her debut album Every Hue and Shade which came out on her own independent label.
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Grace Griffith completed two further albums with Minstrel Song, released in 2000, and followed by Sands of Time in 2003.
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When Griffith came to know Eva's work, she encouraged Blix Street to sign her as well, which they did just after the release of her album Grace.
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Grace Griffith was an avid fan of Griffith's, who spotted Eva's face at several of her concerts during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Grace Griffith got to hear about Cassidy's talents and in 1996 made a drive to Potomac to see the then mystery girl at a small club in Alexandria, VA.
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Grace Griffith made a telephone call to Bill Straw, the president of Blix Street Records, explaining the situation, and two days later Grace Griffith sent a tape of Cassidy's Live at Blues Alley album to him.
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At the memorial service for Eva at Greenbelt Park, Grace Griffith performed a haunting Celtic-tinged version of "Golden Thread".
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In one of life's ironies, in 1998 Grace Griffith was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological condition Parkinson's disease.
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Sisson had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease six years before Grace Griffith, and embraced photography and poetry as a way to celebrate life and find new freedoms in his diminishing mobility.
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In 2006, Grace Griffith underwent pioneering surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, for the implantation of electrodes for deep brain stimulation.
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Grace Griffith benefited from the then experimental procedure and became an effective speaker and educator on Parkinson's.
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Grace Griffith sang at the opening of the second World Parkinson Congress held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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On this album which was a mixture of traditional and contemporary material Grace Griffith interprets songs with arrangements ranging from sparse guitar and cello accompaniment to lush productions.
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Grace Griffith covers songs by Iris Dement, Jane Siberry, John Martyn and Richard Farina.
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On March 14,2006, Grace Griffith released My Life her fourth studio release for Blix Street Records and was again produced by Chris Biondo, Marcy Marxer and Lenny Williams.